Mary Smirke

Mary Smirke (22 June 1779 – 14 September 1853) was an English artist and translator.

[1] Mary Smirke attended school in Rickmansworth and received her artistic training from her father.

[1] Smirke's portrait of her father is held by the Royal Academy in London.

The portrait was copied and engraved by John Jackson and Charles Picart and examples of that engraving are held by the National Portrait Gallery while both the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Royal Institute of British Architects hold examples of her drawings.

[1][4][5][6] The Yale Center for British Art holds a 1823 painting by Smirke.