Frank Hill Smith

[1][2] He painted landscapes and figures; and designed wall frescos, stage curtains, stained-glass windows, and other décor.

He travelled in Europe in the 1860s, studying at "the atelier Suisse, in Paris, and ... with [Léon] Bonnat and other noted French painters" (1865).

[4] In the 1870s "there is no doubt that Smith, [Albion Harris] Bicknell, [Thomas] Robinson, Cole, [William Morris] Hunt, Waterman, and, later on, [Frederic Porter] Vinton, and one or two others, had pretty much the swing of art in Boston for several years.

"[4] In 1880 New York's "Union League Club ... contracted with John La Farge, Frank Hill Smith, Augustus Saint-Gaudens, and Will H. Low to undertake decoration of ... areas in [its] new building.

[8] Smith also painted ceiling frescoes in the Representatives Hall in the Massachusetts State House,[9][10] depicting portraits of Samuel Adams, John Hancock, James Otis and Joseph Warren.

The upper story and roof are tiled, the windows are abundant and pretty; on the front of the large gable in the roof is a huge sunflower in high relief; below it, on the upper story, is a winged lion in relief; over the front door is a course of grotesque, open carving; the whole is painted yellow, and is so attractive that people who love light and sunshine hover about it like moths round a candle.

[15]Smith exhibited works in the Museum of Fine Arts in Copley Square (1877)[16] and Williams & Everett's gallery (c.