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and she became his "greatest mentor". They married and had two sons together. The marriage was short and it was
Salmond who raised the boys, Frederic Mark Smith and Dermott Smith, born in 1915 and 1916 respectively. Smith left his wife and sons because he felt that they were "stifling his career."
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Early in the twenties the normal shortcomings of his health allied with the sense of something unfulfilled in his personal life to produce a serious breakdown; and it was not until he found in Vera
Cuningham the ideal model for his art that he recovered and, indeed redoubled his ability to
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213:, England. He trained for the army in Herfortshire in 1916. He was made temporary second lieutenant for the Labour Company. He was wounded in September 1917 at the
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in 1922 or 1923 and moved to Paris, where they lived at 6 bis Villa Brune. The
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Frederic and Frances Smith. His father was a wire-manufacturer and musician who invited visiting musicians to his home. Matthew went to
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In 1944, "The
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Catalogue
Raisonné of the Oil Paintings of Matthew Smith: With a Critical Introduction to His Work
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The two Mr. Smiths: the life and work of Sir Matthew Smith, 1879–1959
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at his short-lived school and was influenced by him and other
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Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire
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Matthew Arnold Bracy Smith was born on 22 October 1879 in
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Crane Kalman Gallery. p. 45. Retrieved 20 August 2014.
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