John Smart (landscape artist)

John Smart RSA RSW (16 October 1838 – 1 June 1899) was a Scottish landscape painter, painting in both oils and watercolour.

John Smart was born at 13 Annandale Street[2] off Leith Walk, the son of Emily Margaret Morton and Robert Campbell Smart (d.1871), an engraver operating from 20 Elm Row.

After showing talent for landscape painting, he instead became a pupil of Horatio McCulloch.

The critic James Caw said of Smart's landscape paintings, "If coarse in handling and wanting in subtlety of feeling, they are simple and effective in design, vivid in effect and powerful in execution, and breathe an ardent passion for the landscape of his native land."

[6] He is buried with his wife, Agnes Purdie Main, in Warriston Cemetery on the north side of the central roundel.