American Art Collaborative

James Smillie (1807-1885) was an engraver. His son James D. (1833-1909) was a painter, engraver, lithographer, and active in New York City art clubs and societies. Another son, George Henry (1840-1921) was a painter. Helen Jacobs Smillie, known as Nellie, was a member of the American Watercolor Society along with her husband, George, and brother-in-law, and painted in the Hudson River School style.