Mr. Smith had been employed on a work, which he intended to call "Walks through London;" and in which he was to describe the Residences, with anecdotes of eminent persons. He announced a "History of his own Life and Times," the materials for which have been purchased by Mr. Bentley. He had also at one time a very extensive and curious illustrated series of the Royal Academy Catalogues. The greater part of his collection of Autographs and Letters was purchased a few years since by Mr. Upcott; and it is believed others were sold by Mr. Christie. His remaining collection of pictures, books, models, and casts in terra-cotta and plaster, were sold at his house, 22, University-street, Tottenham Court Road, on Tuesday the 23d of April, 1833. Mr. Smith was very generally known, both from the importance of his publications and the public situation he held at the British Museum, where he evinced much cordiality of disposition. Many an instance might be mentioned of his charitable and friendly assistance to young artists who sought his advice. He had good judgment to discover merit where it existed, inherent good feeling to encourage it in a deserving object, and sufficient candour to deter from the pursuit where he found there was no indication of talent. In short, he was a very warm and sincere friend; and has been greatly regretted by many who had enjoyed his good-humoured conversation and ever amusing fund of anecdote; more particularly by the frequenters of the print-room of the Museum, where his unremitting attentions ensured for him the regard and respect of some of the first characters of the country. In Mr. Upcott's album he wrote a playful account of himself, in which is the following paragraph. "I can boast of seven _events_, some of which _great_ men would be proud of. I received a kiss _when a boy_ from the beautiful Mrs. Robinson,--was patted on the head by Dr. Johnson,--have frequently held Sir Joshua Reynolds's spectacles,--partook of a pot of porter with an elephant,--saved Lady Hamilton from falling when the melancholy news arrived of Lord Nelson's death,--three times conversed with King George the Third,--and was shut up in a room with Mr. Kean's lion."[3] Mr. Smith's last illness, an inflammation of the lungs, was but of one week's duration. He was fully conscious of his approaching dissolution, and died in the possession of all his faculties, surrounded by his family, on the 8th of March 1833, at No. 22, University Street, Tottenham Court Road. He was privately interred on the 16th in the burial ground of St. George's Chapel, near Tyburn Turnpike, attended to the grave by a few old friends and brother artists. Besides his widow Mr. Smith left one son, who died at the Cape of Good Hope three months after his father; and two daughters; one of whom is married to Mr. Smith, the sculptor; the other to Mr. Fischer, the miniature-painter, a native of Hanover.