Presentation card to Professor William J Smith

• Reference:GB 1694 NMC/0128B
• Dates of Creation:1975
• Name of Creator:
  Coia, Emilio
• Physical Description:
  1 of 2

• Scope and Content

  Signed sheet of former architecture students on the occasion of their reunion dinner, 16/5/1975.

• Administrative / Biographical History

  Glasgow portrait painter in oil and watercolour, also pastel and occasionally black and white; caricaturist and art critic. Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh. Known for his portraits of performing artists at the Edinburgh Festival illustrated in The Scotsman. Exhibited GI (11), including a portrait of "Sir Robert Philipson" (1978).

• Acquisition Information

  Jean Smith, widow of Prof William Smith's son, 1994.

• Note

  Glasgow portrait painter in oil and watercolour, also pastel and occasionally black and white; caricaturist and art critic. Fellow, Royal Society of Edinburgh. Known for his portraits of performing artists at the Edinburgh Festival illustrated in The Scotsman. Exhibited GI (11), including a portrait of "Sir Robert Philipson" (1978).

• Physical Characteristics and/or Technical Requirements

  Ink on card
  Dimensions: 357 x 257 mm

• Additional Information

  Published

• Subjects

  Drawings (visual works)

  Fine arts

• Personal Names

  Smith, William J