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Lionel Percy Smythe RA
1839 – 1918
Lionel Percy Smythe spent his early years in France, before returning with his family to live in London. He trained at the Heatherley School of Art and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy in 1863, where he was particularly noted for his fine watercolours of landscape and marine subjects.
In 1879 Lionel Smythe returned to France with his wife and settled in Normandy, living first at Wimereuux and, after 1882, in Boulogne.
From 1881 onwards Lionel Smythe exhibited at The Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours and from 1882 at the Royal Watercolour Society. He also exhibited in Paris. Smythe was elected an Associate member of the Royal Academy in 1898 and became a full Member in 1911.
