Thomas Smith (painter)
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Captain Thomas Smith was an artist and mariner who lived somewhere between 1600 and 1700 and completed a self-portrait circa 1680. He lived in Boston and was a Puritan as evidenced by his dress and symbolism in the portrait. The painting also includes the following poem, signed T.S. (Hughes, 35)
Why Why should I the World be minding
therein a World of Evils FindingTruth Sounds Retreat: I am not sorye.
- Then Farewell World: Farewell thy Jarres
- thy Joies thy Toies thy Wiles thy Warrs
To Crowne me (after Grace) with Glory.
- The Eternal Drawes to him my heart
- By Faith (which can thy Force Subvert)
[edit] Works Cited
Hughes, Robert. American Visions. New York: Random House, 1997.
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