Full Name: Smith, John Thomas
Other Names:
- John Smith
Gender: male
Date Born: 1766
Date Died: 1833
Home Country/ies: United Kingdom
Subject Area(s): prints (visual works)
Career(s): curators
Overview
Keeper of Prints and Drawings at the British Museum. He was succeeded at his death by William Young Ottley. He is sometmes confused in historiographic literature with the John Smith who authored the Rubens catalog in the 1830’s.
Sources
Griffiths, Antony. “The Department of Prints and Drawings during the First Century of the British Museum.” Burlington Magazine 136 no. 1097 (August 1994): 531-544.