Thomas Lochlan Smith

Thomas Lochlan Smith was born in Glasgow, Scotland and came to America as a young boy destined to be a landscape painter. He resided in Albany, New York by 1859 where he studied with George H. Boughton and moved to New York City three years later (1862 until his death) an astute landscape and figure painter.

Smith was an Associate of the National Academy (1869) and exhibited with the Boston Art Club (1873-1882), the National Academy of Design in NYC (1863-1884) and the Brooklyn Art Association (1864-1883), the PAFA and the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition (1876). Who Was Who in American Art states (vol. 3, p. 3092) Smith “specialized in winter scenes.” He was influence by the Hudson River and Barbizon Schools and usually painted charming, luminous genres in nature that give glimpses into the rural life of the mid-1870s.

Winter Scene was probably painted in upper state New York during the 1860s. It shows the influences of mainstream Hudson River School techniques and tendencies with its luminous atmosphere and genteel genre within nature and it gives us a glimpse of life as it was in the American wilderness during the mid-nineteenth century.

Represented in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT; Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL; George Walter Vincent Smith Museum Springfield, MA.