Background
Smith, Francis Hopkinson was born on October 23, 1838 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of Francis Hopkinson and Susan (Teackle) Smith.
Smith, Francis Hopkinson was born on October 23, 1838 in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Son of Francis Hopkinson and Susan (Teackle) Smith.
When quite young was clerk in iron works. Later educated as mechanic engineer. Doctor of Humane Letters, Yale, 1907.
Father of F. Berkeley S. Became engineer and contractor. Built government seawall around Governor’s Island. Another at Tompkinsville, S.I.
The Race Rock light house off New London. Foundation for Bartholdi Statue of Liberty, etc. Did much landscape work in water colors, charcoal work and illustrations.
Represented in Walter’s Gallery, Baltimore, Marquand Collection, etc. Lecturer on art subjects.
Author: Old Lines in New Black and White, 1885. Well-Worn Roads, 1886. A White Umbrella in Mexico, 1889.
A Book of the Tile Club, 1890. Colonel Carter, of Cartersville, 1891. A Day at Laguerre’s, 1892.
American Illustrators, 1892. A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others, 1895. Tom Grogan, 1896
Gondola Days, 1897.
Venice of To-day, 1897. Caleb West, 1898
The Other Fellow, 1899. The Fortunes of Oliver Horn, 1902.
The Under Dog, 1903
Colonel Carter’s Christmas, 1904. At Close Range, 1905. The Wood Fire in Northern 3, 1905.
The Tides of Barnegat, 1906. The Veiled Lady, 1907. The Romance of an Old-Fashioned Gentleman, 1907.
Peter, 1908
Forty Minutes Late, 1909. Kennedy Square, 1911. Arm-Chair at the Inn, 1912.
Charcoals of New and Old New York, 1912, In Thackeray’s London, 1913.
Member American Academy Arts and Letters.
Married Josephine Van Deventer.