Dublin Art Colony
Smith's house at Loon Point formed an important nucleus of the Dublin Art Colony, whose regular members included the painters Abbott Thayer and Rockwell Kent, publishers Charles Scribner and Henry Holt and whose visitors included Isabella Stewart Gardner, poet Amy Lowell, Mark Twain, and painter John Singer Sargent.
Smith was noted in the community for his love of theatricals, and part of his Loon Point property was landscaped and decorated for these performances.
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