Robert Borlase Smart

Robert Borlase Smart (1881 – 1947) worked as a journalist (art editor and critic on the Western Morning News/Illustrated Western Weekly News from 1901 to 1913).[1] He is principally known as an artist, in which capacity he became a founding member of the St Ives School during the years following his return from the First World War.[2]

Born at Kingsbridge, South Devon early on he studied with F J Snell in Devon and later with Julius Olsson. He joined the Artists Rifles and served through the war. In 1916 he met and established a lifelong friendship with Leonard Fuller while they were producing illustrations of the Lewis gun.[3]

When the war ended he returned with his wife to St Ives where a school of artists formed around them.[4] Borlase Smart published a number of books on the techniques of painting, and was a key figure in establishing a permanent home for the St Ives Society of Arts in the Mariners' Church.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Robert Borlase Smart The Early Years". Sims Gallery. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Borlase SMART | cornwall artists index". Cornwallartists.org. 1933-08-28. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  3. ↑ "100 Faces - 100 Stories". 100 First World War Stories. Retrieved 2016-02-12.
  4. ↑ "History of St Ives School of Painting at Porthmeor Studios". St Ives School of Painting. Retrieved 12 February 2016.
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