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Smith, a portrait, landscape and mural painter from Belfast, was educated at the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. He studied art at evening classes at the Belfast College of Art and began to exhibit in 1938. During the Second World War he painted war-related subjects and portraits of American army officers stationed in Belfast. His career changed direction in 1944 with a commission to paint a mural in a Belfast restaurant and thereafter he executed 40 more, including several on transatlantic liners. From the mid-1960s until his death in 1982 he devoted himself to landscape painting. This painting shows a spectator (this appears to be a self portrait of the artist) seated in a box on a balcony to the left, looking down on the dimly lit stage and the graceful white-clothed figures of the dancers.
Queen's University Belfast
Belfast
Title
Memory of Les Sylphides
Date
1943
Medium
oil on canvas
Measurements
H 51 x W 61.2 cm
Accession number
QUB 74
Acquisition method
gift, 1946
Work type
Painting
Inscription description
Sidney Smith 43
Queen's University Belfast
University Road, Belfast, County Antrim BT7 1NN Northern Ireland
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