Collier Twentyman Smithers (1867 – 7 December 1943) was a portrait, figure and rustic painter

Painting

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. He was born in Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

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, the son of Arthur Edward Smithers, a banker.

In 1892 Smithers was living at 5 Primrose Hill

Primrose Hill

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 Studios off Fitzroy Road, North London

London

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. This may account for his stylistic similarity to John William Waterhouse

John William Waterhouse

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, who also lived at Primrose Hill Studios. From 1892 to 1936 he exhibited at the Royal Academy

Royal Academy

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; the Royal Society of British Artists

Royal Society of British Artists

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, Birmingham; Walker Art Gallery

Walker Art Gallery

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, Liverpool; Manchester City Art Gallery; New Gallery

New Gallery (London)

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; and the Royal Hibernian Academy

Royal Hibernian Academy

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 and his work received popular reviews. He was a Freeman of the City of London

City of London

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, being admitted to the Worshipful Company of Turners

Worshipful Company of Turners

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 in 1893. He died in 1943 at 36 Roland Gardens, London.

Paintings

• R. Norman Shaw, Esq., R.A.—1892
• Surg.-Lieut. Leopold Hudson, Duke of Cambridge's Hussars—1894
• A Race with Mermaids and Tritons—1895
• The Theft of the Princess's Swan Skin—1896
• The princess permits—1915
• Adam Alexander Dawson
  Adam Alexander Dawson
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  —1918