A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Smither, (Anne)

by Mary Matilda Betham

SMITHER (ANNE), a female Painter, in the 16th Century,

Who painted in miniature with such diminutive neatness, that she executed a landscape, with a windmill, millers, a cart and horse, and passengers, that half a grain would cover the whole composition. Her husband was John, a native of Ghent, a good statuary and architect; she was the mother of Lucas de Heere, a painter in the court of Queen Elizabeth.

New Arm. Reg.