Citation
Chicago:
Maggie Keenan, “Family Tree,” in Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, Blythe Sobol, and Maggie Keenan, The Starr Collection of Portrait Miniatures, 1500–1850: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, vol. 4, ed. Aimee Marcereau DeGalan (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2025), https://doi.org/10.37764/8322.6.86.
MLA:
Keenan, Maggie. “Family Tree.” Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, Blythe Sobol, and Maggie Keenan. The Starr Collection of Portrait Miniatures, 1500–1850: The Collections of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, edited by Aimee Marcereau DeGalan, vol. 4, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2025. doi: 10.37764/8322.6.86.
Most ancestral discoveries were made via AncestryLibrary, but additional notes are in NAMA curatorial files. This more enlarged and updated family tree is built off the work done by Daphne Foskett in her book, John Smart: The Man and His Miniatures (New York: October House, 1964).
Many thanks to intern Katelynn Stevens for her help designing the family tree.
Notes
John Smart (1714–1764): England, Births and Christenings, 1538–1975, FHL film no. 1042307, ref. 2:2NHMZ4F, digitized on Ancestrylibrary.com; London Church of England Parish Registers, ref. P69/Mry12/A/001/Ms05710/001, London Metropolitan Archives; London Church of England Parish Registers, ref. P87/JS/004, London Metropolitan Archives.
Deborah Smart (1736–1822): London Church of England Parish Registers, ref. P76/LUK/001, London Metropolitan Archives; London Church of England Parish Registers, ref. P76/JS1/032, London Metropolitan Archives; Records of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury, series PROB 11, class PROB 11, piece 1657, National Archives, Kew.
Ann Smart (1740–1741): London Church of England Parish Registers, ref. P76/LUK/001, London Metropolitan Archives.
John Smart (1741–1811): London Church of England Parish Registers, ref. P76/LUK/001, London Metropolitan Archives.
Image: John Smart, Self-Portrait, 1793, pencil on laid paper, sight: 6 3/4 x 6 1/8 in. (17.2 x 15.6 cm), framed: 15 7/8 x 14 3/4 in. (40.3 x 37.5 cm), Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2024.10
Mary Anne Howard (1742–1778): London Church of England Parish Registers, ref. P76/JS1/010, London Metropolitan Archives; Marriage Bonds and Allegations, ref. MS10091/109, The London Archives (City of London Corporation).
Mary Morton (1783–1851):
Image: John Smart, Mary Morton, ca. 1804, probably watercolor and graphite on paper, 4 1/4 x 3 1/2 in. (10.8 x 8.9 cm), reproduced in Daphne Foskett, John Smart: The Man and His Miniatures (New York: October House, 1964), plate V.
Sarah Midgeley (d. 1789): Westminster Church of England Parish Registers, ref. STG/PR/8/3, City of Westminster Archives Centre.
Anna Maria Smart (1766–1813): “Anna Maria Smart,” England, Births and Christenings, 1538–1975, FHL film no. 580904, 580905; Bristol Church of England Bishop Transcripts of Parish Registers, ref. EP/V/4/53, Bristol Archives.
Image: John Smart, Portrait of Anna Maria Woolf, née Smart, ca. 1785, graphite and wash on laid paper, framed: 3 9/16 x 3 1/16 in. (9.1 x 7.8 cm), unframed: 2 5/8 x 2 1/8 in. (6.7 x 5.4 cm), Cleveland Museum of Art, 1941.564
Robert Woolf (1755–1836):
Image: John Smart, Robert Woolf, 1786, probably watercolor on ivory, 2 x 1 5/8 in. (5.1 x 4.1 cm), reproduced in Daphne Foskett, John Smart: The Man and His Miniatures (New York: October House, 1964), plate IV.
Sophia Smart (1768–1793): London Church of England Parish Registers, ref. P89/MRY1/005, London Metropolitan Archives.
Image: John Smart, Portrait of Sophia Dighton, 1791, pencil, heightened with touches of white on laid paper, 6 5/8 x 5 5/8 in. (16.8 x 14.3 cm), in “Old Master and British Works on Paper: Property from the Collection of the Late Dr. Erika Pohl-Ströher,” Sotheby’s, London, July 8, 2021, lot 163
John Dighton (1761–1840):
Image: John Smart, Portrait of Lt. John Dighton, 1791, graphite and brown wash on medium, moderately textured, cream laid paper, 6 7/8 x 5 3/4 in. (17.5 x 14.6 cm), Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, Paul Mellon Collection, B1975.4.938
Robert Woolf (1787–1825):
Image: John Smart, Robert Woolf, Jun., 1796, probably watercolor and graphite on paper, 6 3/4 in. (17.1 cm) diam., reproduced in Daphne Foskett, John Smart: The Man and His Miniatures (New York: October House, 1964), plate VI.
Anna Sophia Woolf (1788/89–1840):
Image: John Smart, Sophia Woolf, the Artist’s Granddaughter, n.d., pencil and watercolor on paper, 3 x 2 1/2 in. (7.6 x 6.4 cm), The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA, 45.1A
Elizabeth Ann Woolf (1790–1825):
Image: John Smart, Elizabeth Ann Woolf, the Artist’s Grandaughter, n.d., pencil and watercolor on paper, 2 3/4 x 1 3/8 in. (7 x 3.5 cm), The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA, 45.1C
Maria Woolf (1794–1856): India, Births and Baptisms, 1786–1947, FHL film no. 506955, digitized on Ancestrylibrary.com; Birmingham Church of England Parish Registers, ref. dro 41, archive roll 664, Library of Birmingham, England; England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991, FHL film no. 588398, ref. p. 550, digitized on Ancestrylibrary.com.
Image: John Smart, Maria Woolf, the Artist’s Grandaughter, n.d, pencil and watercolor on paper, 3 x 2 3/8 in. (7.6 x 6 cm), The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA, 45.1B
Sarah Smart (1780–1852): London Church of England Parish Registers, ref. P89/MRY1/080, London Metropolitan Archives; “Will of Sarah Smart, Spinster of No 61 Warren Street Fitzroy Square Middlesex,” Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related Probate Jurisdictions: Will Registers, PROB 11/2167/355, National Archives, Kew.
John Smart Junior (1777–1809): London Church of England Parish Registers, ref. P89/MRY1/079, London Metropolitan Archives; “MADRAS DEATHS. On Friday morning, John Smart, Esq, Miniature Painter,” Madras Courier, June 7, 1809, 1; “Will of John Smart of No 2 Russell Place Fitzroy Square, Middlesex,” February 14, 1810, PROB 11/1508/263, National Archives, Kew; According to Foskett, John Smart, 57: “The entry in the Register of Burials at St Mary’s Church, Fort St. George, gives the date of death as 1 June 1809.”
Image: John Smart Junior, Self-Portrait of the Artist John Smart, ca. 1808, etching on paper, 7 7/8 x 6 5/8 in. (20 x 16.9 cm), The British Museum, London, 1958,0411.2
Mary Ann Green:
Image: John Smart Junior, Portrait Miniature of Mary Green, 1807, watercolor on paper, 4 3/16 x 3 3/8 in. (10.6 x 8.6 cm), Victoria and Albert Museum, P.108-1929
John Smart (b. 1809): “John Smart baptism,” London Church of England Parish Registers, ref. P89/MRY1/012, London Metropolitan Archives; London Church of England Parish Registers, ref. P89/MRY1/084, London Metropolitan Archives.
John James Smart (1805–1870):
Image: John Smart, Portrait of John James Smart, 1807, watercolor and bodycolor on ivory, 2 7/16 x 1 13/16 in. (6.1 x 4.6 cm), sold at Sotheby’s, London, “The Pohl-Ströher Collection of Portrait Miniatures, Part III,” December 5, 2019, lot 323
John Dighton (1793–1810):
Image: John Smart, Portrait Drawing of John Dighton, 1810, watercolor on paper, 4 3/4 x 4 3/16 in. (12 x 10.6 cm), previously in the inventory of Philip Mould, London
doi: 10.37764/8322.6.86