Overview
James David Smillie (January 16, 1833 – September 15, 1909) was an American artist, cofounder of the American Watercolor Society and New York Etching Club. His brother was painter George Henry Smillie.
Biography
James David Smillie was born in New York City on January 16, 1833.
His father, (1807–1885), a Scottish engraver, emigrated to New York in 1829, was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1851, did much, with his brother William Cumming (1813–1908), to develop the engraving of bank-notes, and was an excellent landscape-engraver.
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