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Joseph Smith (art collector)
Joseph Smith often known as Consul Smith, (ca 1682 – Venice, 6 November 1770), the British consul at Venice, 1744–1760,〔 Dates given in the ''London Gazette'' prior to 1752 are old style, by modern standards, with the year beginning on 1 January, rather than 25 March, this date falls in 1744〕 was a patron of artists, most notably Canaletto, and a collector and connoisseur, banker to the British community at Venice and a major draw on the British Grand Tour.〔The standard biography is Frances Vivian, ''Il Console Smith mercante e collezionista'' (Vicenza) 1971.〕 His collection of drawings were bought for George III of Great Britain and form a nucleus of the Royal Collection of drawings in the Print Room at Windsor Castle.〔See Frances Vivian, ''The Consul Smith Collection: Masterpieces of Italian Drawing from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle, Raphael to Canaletto''ISBN 9783777452500. The other nucleus of Windsor drawings comprises the drawings collected by Cardinal Alessandro Albani, purchased through the agency of Robert Adam's brother James.〕
==Smith the collector==
Smith took up residence in 1700, in the import-export trade and merchant banking house of Thomas Williams, the British consul; he eventually headed the partnership of Williams and Smith and made a modest fortune.〔Horace Walpole remarked of him in passing as "The Merchant of Venice", who knew nothing of his books save their titlepages, but the ''bon mot'' seems undeserved, according to the original 1897 ''Dictionary of National Biography'', ''s.v.'' "Smith, Joseph". "This collection was especially rich in the classics and in examples of early printing," the British Library observes ((British Library: "The printed books of King George III" )) which are two outstanding symptoms of books collected as trophies. On the other hand the catalogue of his library has an Appendix which reprints in full some 200 prefaces, dedications and epilogues contained in incunabula, a mark of genuine curiosity.〕 His reputation was as a passionate collector,〔"His mania for collecting eventually reached such proportions that Carlo Goldoni dedicated an appropriate new comedy of the carnival season of 1750 to him – ''La famiglia dell' antiquario", notes William Barcham, "Canaletto and a Commission from Consul Smith' ''The Art Bulletin'' 59.3 (September 1977:383–393) p. 385 note 9.〕 of paintings and drawings – both of sixteenth and seventeenth century masters and of living artists – and of manuscripts and books, coins and medals, and engraved gems.〔The gems were catalogued by Antonio Francesco Gori, and published in a sumptuously illustrated volume, ''Dactyliotheca Smithiana'' (1767, after Gori's death), after more than half the collection had been purchased on behalf of George III.〕 Beside Canaletto, among the living painters whom he patronised were Francesco Zuccarelli, of Florence, and the Venetian Giuseppe Zais. His favoured architect for rebuilding the façade of his palazzo was Antonio Visentini.
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