Edmund Hodgson Smart

{{short description|English painter}}

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{{Infobox artist

|name = Edmund Hodgson Smart

|image = Edmund Hodgson Smart circa 1922.jpg

|caption = Smart circa 1922

|birth_date = 1873

|birth_place = Alnwick, England

|death_date = {{death year and age|1942|1873}}

|death_place =

|known_for = Painting

|nationality = British

}}

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.{{cite magazine|title=SMART, Edmund Hodgson|magazine=The International Who's Who in the World|year=1912|pages=961–962|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I-wRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA961}}

His painting Dawn (1907) was given to the Smithsonian Institution by the artist and is in their public collection.[http://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=22521 Search Collections - Dawn 1907 Edmund Hodgson Smart], Smithsonian American Art Museum. Retrieved 2014-01-12.