SMITH, Hezekiah Wright, engraver, born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1828. He came to New York with his family in 1833, and entered the establishment of an engraver, where he remained until his majority. He then passed two years with Thomas Doney, a mezzotint engraver, and in 1850 went to Boston and began to practise his profession, engraving a large number of plates for the publications of Ticknor and Field, and Little, Brown and Co. His most important plates are a full-length of Daniel Webster, after Chester Harding ; a three-quarter length Edward Everett, after Moses Wright ; and Washington, after Gilbert Stuart's Athenamm head, this last being the best rendering of the picture that has yet been produced by the engraver. It was a labor of love with Mr. Smith, and to its completion he devoted all the leisure he could secure from his regular work during several years. His plates are executed in the dotted style, improperly called stipple, and most of his smaller portraits have considerable roulette work, giving them a mezzotint appearance. In 1870 he returned to New York, and in 1.877 he removed to Philadelphia, where he remained until the beginning of April, 1879. He then suddenly expressed a determination to give up engraving, disposed of all his effects, left the city, and nothing has since been heard of him. During the last year of his residence in Philadelphia he essayed etching in the style of Henry B. Hall, and produced ten plates in this manner, his last being a portrait of James L. Claghorn, president of the Pennsylvania academy of the fine arts.