Henry Pember Smith, American, 1854 to 1907, an antique oil painting on canvas depicting a rural landscape view with a house on a pond. Signed lower left. Framed. Henry Pember Smith was an American painter, best known for his depictions of country cottages and river scenes around Lyme and East Lyme, Connecticut, and paintings of the sea and shore in New Jersey, Rhode Island, and Cape Ann to Maine. Smith was born in Waterford, Connecticut. During the 1880s, he studied the Old Masters in Paris, Brittany, Normandy, Venice and along the English Cornish coast. He was a member of the Artists Fund Society and the American Water Color Society, and exhibited at the National Academy of Design from 1877 to 1896, 1899, 1901, 1906; the Brooklyn Art Club, 1878 to 1885, 1892; Boston Art Club, 1880 to 1890); Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, 1881, 1888; and the Art Institute of Chicago. One of a kind artwork.