Robert Borlase Smart

Robert Borlase Smart (1881 – 1947) worked as a journalist (art editor and critic on the Western Morning News/Illustrated Western Weekly News from 1901 to 1913),[1] but is principally known as an artist, in which capacity he became a founding member of the St Ives School during the years following his return from the First World War.[2]

Born at Kingsbridge, South Devon, early on he studied with F. J. Snell in Devon and later with Julius Olsson. He joined the Artists Rifles and served through the war. In 1916 he met and established a lifelong friendship with Leonard Fuller while they were producing illustrations of the Lewis gun.[3]

When the war ended he returned with his wife to St Ives where a school of artists formed around them.[4] He exhibited at the first exhibition of the Society of Graphic Art in London in 1921.[5] Borlase Smart published a number of books on the techniques of painting, and was a key figure in establishing a permanent home for the St Ives Society of Arts in the Mariners' Church.[2]

References
  1. "Robert Borlase Smart The Early Years". Sims Gallery. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  2. "Borlase SMART | cornwall artists index". Cornwallartists.org. 28 August 1933. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  3. "100 Faces - 100 Stories". 100 First World War Stories. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  4. "History of St Ives School of Painting at Porthmeor Studios". St Ives School of Painting. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  5. "List of Members", Catalogue of the First Annual Exhibition of the Society of Graphic Art, London: Society of Graphic Art: 45–48, January 1921
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