Harriet Anne Smart

Harriet Anne Smart Callow (October 20, 1817 — June 30, 1883) was a British artist and composer who is best remembered for her hymns and her paintings of the British countryside. Her works were published under the names Harriet Smart and H. A. Callow.

Callow was born in London to the violinist Henry Smart and his wife Anne Stanton Bagnold Smart, a music teacher. Callow’s brother was the composer Henry Thomas Smart, and her uncle was Sir George Smart, the Queen’s organist. She studied painting with the artist William Callow, and married him in 1846. “Shine Thou Upon Us, Lord” (text by Reverend John Ellerton) “Solitude” “Those Who With Dying Lips” (text by Esther Wiglesworth)

Painting Collections

Callow Album (by Harriet and William Callow) View two portraits attributed to Harriet Smart Callow