Harriet Anne Smart

{{Short description|British artist and composer (1817–1883)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}Harriet Anne Smart Callow (October 20, 1817 — June 30, 1883){{Cite book|author=Stern, Susan|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/681865655|title=Women composers : a handbook|date=1978|publisher=Scarecrow Press|oclc=681865655}} was a British artist and composer {{Cite book|last=Miriam.|first=Stewart|url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/882451943|title=Women composers : a checklist of works for the solo voice|date=1980|publisher=G.K. Hall|isbn=0-8161-8498-4|oclc=882451943}}{{Cite book|last1=Hixon|first1=Don|url=|title=Women in American music : a bibliography|last2=Hennessee|first2=Don|date=1993|publisher=Scarecrow|isbn=0810827697}} who is best remembered for her hymns{{Cite book|last=Cohen|first=Aaron I.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5VsYAAAAIAAJ&q=strantz+louise|title=International Encyclopedia of Women Composers|date=1987|publisher=Books & Music (USA)|isbn=978-0-9617485-2-4|language=en}}{{Cite book|last1=Evans|first1=Robert|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xZCvAwAAQBAJ&dq=harriet+callow+composer&pg=PA309|title=Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland|last2=Humphreys|first2=Maggie|date=1997-01-01|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=978-1-4411-3796-8|language=en}} and her paintings of the British countryside.{{Cite web|last=Callow|first=Harriet|title=Buckinghamshire Gardens Trust – Member of The Gardens Trust|url=https://bucksgardenstrust.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/William-Callow-final.pdf|access-date=2022-02-24|language=en-GB}}{{Cite book|last=Elson|first=Arthur|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YeQ5AAAAIAAJ&dq=harriet+smart+hymns&pg=PA248|title=Woman's Work in Music: Being an Account of Her Influence on the Art, in Ancient as Well as Modern Times; a Summary of Her Musical Compositions, in the Different Countries of the Civilized World; and an Estimate of Their Rank in Comparison with Those of Men|date=1903|publisher=L.C. Page|language=en}} 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,{{Cite book|last1=Highfill|first1=Philip H.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gql3JbSYeG4C&dq=harriet+callow+composer&pg=PA125|title=A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers & Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800|last2=Burnim|first2=Kalman A.|last3=Langhans|first3=Edward A.|date=1991|publisher=SIU Press|isbn=978-0-8093-1526-0|language=en}} a music teacher.{{Cite book|last=Love|first=James|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=joACAAAAYAAJ&q=harriet+callow+composer|title=Scottish Church Music: Its Composers and Sources|date=1891|publisher=W. Blackwood and sons|language=en}} Callow’s brother was the composer Henry Thomas Smart,{{Cite web|title=Harriet Callow {{!}} Hymnary.org|url=https://hymnary.org/person/Callow_Harriet|access-date=2022-02-24|website=hymnary.org|language=en}}{{Cite journal|last1=Dennison|first1=Sam|last2=Laurence|first2=Anya|last3=Zaimont|first3=Judith Lang|last4=Famera|first4=Karen|last5=Stewart-Green|first5=Miriam|last6=Hixon|first6=Don L.|last7=Hennessee|first7=Don|date=1985|title=Women of Notes: 1,000 Women Composers Born before 1900|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3051837|journal=American Music|volume=3|issue=4|pages=479|doi=10.2307/3051837|jstor=3051837|issn=0734-4392|url-access=subscription}} and her uncle was Sir George Smart, the Queen’s organist.{{Cite book|last=Callow|first=William|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gcZLAQAAIAAJ&dq=harriet+callow+composer&pg=PA94|title=An Autobiography|date=1908|publisher=A. and C.Black|language=en}} She studied painting with the artist William Callow, and married him in 1846.

The couple lived in Buckingshamshire after their marriage. In his autobiography, William Callow described his wife as “an excellent pianist and vocalist and. . . a good linguist.” She started a school in Buckingshamshire during the 1850s to teach the local laborers how to read, and also raised money to rebuild a church nearby in the village of Great Missenden. Sir William Jenner treated her unsuccessfully during her final illness in 1883. Her works include: