protest. The Analytical Review recorded It is probable that Smith also earned money as a copyist of other artists: William Brummell, father of Beau Brummell, owned a copy of a Joshua Reynolds work that Reynolds himself could barely distinguish from the original. Smith returned to India, working there from 1800 to 1811. In 1802, he published A Trip to Bengal, another two-act musical work, dedicating it to Macpherson in appreciation of his past hospitality. Described as an opera, this also was performed at Covent Garden and it included as its centrepiece a traditional melancholy Urdu song, Dil ne danne lea re. He died at Leith on 19 December 1824. References Notes Citations Bibliography External links 1749 births 1824 deaths People from Orkney Scottish portrait painters 18th-century Scottish painters Scottish male painters Artists from London