American painter and illustrator Walter Granville Smith studied in Newark, New Jersey and in New York at the Art Students League. He then started his artist career as a magazine illustrator, including the first color publications, but later travelled to Europe (Netherlands, Belgium and France) and studied further in Paris. In those times he started painting landscapes and marine paintings. He was also well known throughout his career for painting in watercolors or oil, especially scenes of beautiful women doing domestic chores or attending leisurely or sporting events. After returning to the United States Granville-Smith settled on Long Island. His early realistic watercolors and oil paintings were also used for advertising. Later works were partly influenced by impressionism.
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