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SMITH, Francis Hopkinson, artist, born in Baltimore, Maryland, 23 October, 1888. He is by profession an engineer, and has built a large number of public works, many of them under contract with the United States government. These include the Race Rock lighthouse off New London harbor, Long Island sound (1871-'7)" Block Island breakwater (1879). He is well known as an artist, and has produced some very effective work in water-colors and charcoal. Among his water-colors are "In the Darkling Wood" (1876) ; " Peggotty on the Harlem "(1881)-"Under the Towers, Brooklyn Bridge" (1888)" "In the North Woods "(1884)" and" A January Thaw" (1887). He has been occupied also in book and magazine illustration, and he is known as an author by his books " Well-worn Roads " (Boston, 1886) . "Old Lines in New Black and White" (1886)" and "A Book of the Tile Club" (1887), partly illustrated by himself. From 1875 till 1878 tie was treasurer of the American water-color society.
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