Stephen Catterson Smith

His parents moved early in his life to Kingston upon Hull, and at the age of about sixteen Smith went to London to support himself by the practical study of art.

He first attracted notice by his skill in drawing portraits in black chalk, many of these being published in lithography by Richard James Lane.

About 1840 Smith received some commissions to paint portraits in Ireland, which led him to settle first at Derry, and afterwards at Dublin, where he spent the remainder of his life.

At Dublin Smith quickly became the leading portrait-painter of the day, and was considered very successful with his likenesses both in male and female portraits, painting something in the manner of Sir Thomas Lawrence.

Smith married, in 1845, Anne, daughter of Robert Titus Wyke, an English artist, residing at Wexford.