* Sir Matthew Smith [1879-1959]-Seated Girl,:-gallery label to reverseoil on canvas62 x 52cm* Provenance. Crane Kalman Gallery, Brompton Rd, London, SW3, January 1969, where purchased by 'Mr & Mrs Sidney Gilliat', thence by family descent.Sir Matthew Smith, CBE [1879-1959] was a British painter of nudes, still-life and landscape. He studied design at the Manchester School of Art and at the Slade School of Art. Smith studied under Henri Matisse in Paris and acquired an interest in Fauvism. During World War I he was wounded at the Battle of Passchendaele. In 1949, Smith was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). He was knighted in 1954.