Smith, John Thomas

Date born:  1766

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Date died:  1833

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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.

Home Country:  United Kingdom

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.

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Subject's name: John Smith; John Thomas Smith