Background
He was born in 1803 at Chelsea where his father, James Smith, practised as a surgeon.
He was born in 1803 at Chelsea where his father, James Smith, practised as a surgeon.
He was a pupil of Charles Pye, and became an engraver of book illustrations of a topographical and antiquarian character. He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1837, and died of paralysis in Albany Street, London, on 23 November 1838.