Antonio Smith (painter)
Miguel Antonio Smith e Irisarri (born September 29, 1832 in Santiago de Chile , † May 24, 1877 ibid) was a Chilean landscape painter .
Smith attended the Academia de Pintura from 1849 under the direction of Alejandro Ciccarelli . Disappointed by the rigid teaching style of the school, he broke off his training and entered the Escuadrón de Granaderos in Chillán in 1853 . In 1858 he left the army and became a cartoonist for the literary-political magazine El Correo Literario .
In 1861 he traveled to Europe to continue his art education. He visited France and Italy and was a student of the landscape painter Carlos Markó in Florence . On his return in 1863, he opened his own studio, where painters such as Pedro Lira Rencoret , Onofre Jarpa Labra , Cosme San Martín and Alberto Orrego Luco completed their training at the Academia de Pintura.
Smith has received several awards for his work, including a. with the Prize of the Comisión de Bellas Artes de Santiago (1851) and the Honorary Prize of the Exposición Internacional de Santiago (1875). The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes owns the oil paintings Río Cachapoal and Claro de Luna , the Gouache Retrato de María de las Mercedes Trucios y Larraín de Irisarri is owned by the Museo Histórico Nacional in Santiago.
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| SURNAME | Smith, Antonio |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Smith e Irisarri, Miguel Antonio (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean landscape painter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 29, 1832 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 24, 1877 |
| Place of death | Santiago de Chile |