Coke Smyth

John Richard Coke Smyth (1808–1882) was a British artist and traveller.

A few works arose out of a visit to Constantinople where he collaborated with the noted Orientalist painter John Frederick Lewis to produce several works on Turkey and Constantinople.

[1] In 1838, John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham accepted the post of Governor-General of British North America, and arrived in Quebec with his family and an entourage of about twenty people.

These include works by Coke Smyth (1808-1882), whom Lord Durham had engaged to teach drawing to his family,[2] by Lord Durham's daughter, Lady Mary Louisa Lambton, and by the amateur watercolorist, Katherine Ellice, (1814-1864), wife of Edward Ellice, secretary to the Governor.

"[3] After his return to England, Coke Smyth sketched the illustrations of the costumes that were used to make the prints for of the Bal Costume, given by H.M. Queen Victoria at Buckingham Palace, May 12, 1842.