[A biographical list, alphabetically arranged, of portrait painters, is
given in Hobbes's _Picture Collector's Manual; being a Dictionary of
Painters_, vol. ii. pp. 467-515., edit. 1849; a useful work of the
kind. The name of H. Smith is not noticed.]
_Ætna._--To whom can the following passage refer?
"We found a good inn here (Catania), kept by one Caca Sangue, a name
that sounds better in Italian than it would in English. This fellow is
extremely pleasant and communicative, and among other things he told us
that Mr. ----, who has published such a minute description of his
journey to the crater of Ætna, was never there, but sick in Catania
when his {564} party ascended, he having been their guide."--_Travels
through Switzerland, Italy, Sicily, &c._, vol. ii. p. 21., by Thomas
Watkins, A.M., F.R.S., in the years 1787, 1788, 1789; 2 vols. 8vo., 2nd
edition, London, 1794.