John Raphael Smith

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John Raphael Smith (1752 - March 2, 1812), English painter and mezzotint engraver, a son of Thomas Smith of Derby, the landscape painter, was born in 1752.

He was apprenticed to a linen-draper in Derby, and afterwards pursued the same business in London, adding, however, to his income by the production of miniatures. He then turned to engraving and executed his plate of the "Public Ledger," which had great popularity, and was followed by his mezzotints of "Edwin the Minstrel" (a portrait of Thomas Haden), after Wright of Derby, and "Mercury Inventing the Lyre," after Barry.

He reproduced some forty of the works of Reynolds, some of these plates