A Lima Lady on Horseback

by William Smyth

$2,000 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

Peru Lima presumably : c. 1835. Watercolor on paper, 11 1/4 x 9 inches. Matted, in very good condition. § Smyth 1800–77 , was a Royal Naval officer and artist who entered the Navy in April 1813. Smyth passed his lieutenant’s examination in 1819 and served as a passed midshipman and mate including on the Blossom under Frederick Beechey in the Pacific, 1825 –28, until commissioned lieutenant during that voyage, in May 1827. From June 1831 to

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