About Helen Sheldon Jacobs Smillie
Lived 1854 – 1926 (aged 71–72). Helen Sheldon Jacobs Smillie was an American painter and watercolorist.
Helen "Nellie" Sheldon Jacobs Smillie (née Helen Sheldon Jacobs; 1854 – 1926) was an American painter, known for genre painting and watercolors. She often used the signature N.S.J. Smillie, and the name Nellie Sheldon Jacobs Smillie.
Biography Helen Sheldon Jacobs was born on September 14, 1854, in New York City, New York to parents Helen Sheldon and Samuel J. Jacobs.
She studied painting at the Cooper Union, and the National Academy of Design. Together they had three sons. They shared an art studio on East 36th Street in Manhattan. She was a member of the American Watercolor Society.
A year prior to her death she was ill with a heart condition. Smillie died on July 31, 1926, in at Hotel Shelton in New York City.
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American painter (1854–1926)
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Helen Sheldon Jacobs Smillie died in 1926 in New York City.
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