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Regency Portraits Catalogue

William Smith (1769-1839), Geologist and engineer

Portraits in Regency Portraits Catalogue | Other NPG portraits

William Smith

by Sir Francis Leggatt Chantrey
circa 1830
NPG 316a(110)

Engraving after 'Men of Science Living in 1807-8'

by George Zobel, and William Walker
1862
NPG 1075a

Key to engraving after 'Men of Science Living in 1807-8'

by William Walker
1862
NPG 1075b

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