Nathaniel Smybert was an artist in Boston

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, Massachusetts

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, in the mid-18th century. Born in Boston in 1734, he trained as a painter with his father, the artist John Smybert

John Smybert

John Smybert , Scottish American artist, was born in Edinburgh and died in Boston, Massachusetts.Smibert began drawing while apprenticed as a painter and plasterer, on moving to London he worked as a painter of coach carriages and a copyist.He studied under Sir James Thornhill at his academy, then...

, and produced several portraits, notably of Ezra Stiles

Ezra Stiles

Ezra Stiles was an American academic and educator, a Congregationalist minister, theologian and author. He was president of Yale College .-Early life:...

, architect Peter Harrison

Peter Harrison

Peter Harrison was a colonial American architect who was born in York, England and emigrated to Rhode Island in 1740. Peter Harrison and his brother, Joseph Harrison, came to the American colonies and established themselves as merchants and captains of their own "vessels." Peter Harrison returned...

, and Dorothy Wendell (in the Collection of Dr John L Hale, Boston). Smybert died in 1756, at the age of twenty-two.