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John Bell-Smith

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Painter. He was a well-known Canadian landscape artist best known for his works of the Rocky Mountains and the Selkirk Range (a mountain range spanning the Idaho Panhandle, the state of Washington, and the southeastern province of British Columbia). Born in London, England, to portrait painter and minaiturist John Bell-Smith and his wife, Georgina Boddy Bell-Smith, he began his art training under his father at a young age before immigrating to Montreal in 1867. After his arrival in Canada, he worked for several photographic firms beginning in Montreal, and then Toronto, and Hamilton. It was around this time that he also began to exhibit an interest in watercolours. By 1881, he was made the art director of the Alma College located in St. Thomas,

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