Active in New York for her entire career, Nellie Jacobs Smillie studied at the National Academy of Design and the Cooper Union, and privately with J.O. Eaton and James D. Smillie. In 1881, she married the painter George Henry Smillie, younger brother of James.

MEMBER:
American Watercolor Society

LISTED:
American Art Annual, v.3-10
Mantle Fielding's
Who Was Who In America