Pierre Jacques Smit

Smit,[1] was a natural history illustrator of the Victorian era in England.

[3] When he was two years old, the Smit family moved to England, and Joseph became an illustrator at the British Museum Natural History (now the Natural History Museum).

Peter showed that he had a natural talent for drawing when he was a boy, and he followed his father in working in natural history illustration, including work for the British Museum.

[2] Smit was commissioned by the British Museum Natural History to do pencil and ink drawings of the museum's Central Hall for its 1890/91 Guide; he lived in Primrose Hill, London at the time.

[5] Smit married Gertrude Burge in Evesham, Worcestershire in the spring of 1894.

An illustration by Smit of water monitors at a nest, from Richard Lydekker 's The Royal Natural History , 1893–1896
A nest of a Socotra warbler , from The Natural History of Sokotra and Abd-el-Kuri by William Robert Ogilvie-Grant and Henry Ogg Forbes , 1903