title: Edmund Hodgson Smart
text: # Edmund Hodgson Smart
  
  Edmund Hodgson Smart (1873–1942) was a nineteenth and twentieth-century British painter most noted for his portraits of world leaders. He was born in Alnwick, England. He studied art at the Antwerp Academy in Belgium, at the Académie Julian in Paris, and under Sir Hubert von Herkomer in England.
  
  His painting Dawn (1907) was given to the Smithsonian Institution by the artist and is in their public collection.
  
  ## Select works
  
  * Dawn, 1907
  * King Edward VII of Britain
  * Queen Alexandra of Britain
  * American President Warren G. Harding
  * Marshal Foch
  * General Pershing
  * Admiral William Sims
  * Annie Besant, 1927
  * Manly Palmer Hall, Philosophical Research Society collection
  