The mandolin player

Carlton Alfred Smith was one of the most technically accomplished Victorian watercolourists, who established his reputation painting both genre and cottage interiors. With Charles Edward Wilson with whom he shared models and a studio in London, he moved to join the artistic community founded by Myles Birket Foster and Helen Allingham in the villages surrounding Witley in Surrey. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, the Royal Society of British Artists, and the New Watercolour Society.