art gallery", provided much of the early artistic education for Charles Willson Peale, Gilbert Stuart, and John Trumbull. Between 1740 and 1742, he served as architect for the original Faneuil Hall, which he designed in the style of an English country market. The hall burned down in 1761 but was restored, and then in 1806 greatly expanded and modified by Charles Bulfinch. His son Nathaniel was also a painter. Smibert lies in an unmarked grave in the Granary Burying Ground in Boston. Selected works References Further reading Primary sources General studies Additional notes Reference works External links John Singleton Copley in America, a full text exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, which contains material on John Smibert (see index) 1688 births 1751 deaths 18th-century American painters 18th-century American male artists American male painters 18th-century Scottish painters Scottish male painters Artists from Boston People from colonial Boston Scottish emigrants to the Thirteen Colonies Artists from Edinburgh Burials at Granary Burying Ground Scottish portrait painters American portrait painters