Smith, Alexander

11 Orange Street, Red Lion Square, London; carver and gilder (fl. 1823–27)

His trade card [Landauer Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY] states that he made ‘Borders for Rooms, Bed & Window Cornices, Old Frames regilt & Modernized, Looking Glasses New Polished & Silvered, Drawings & Needle work carefully mounted and neatly Framed & Glazed, Old Paintings Cleaned, Lined & Repaired’.

Insurance records show that he also traded as a librarian and dealer in looking-glasses. In December 1823 he took out insurance cover for £500 of which £300 was for utensils and stock. [London Metropolitan Archive (LMA), GL, Sun MS vol. 497, ref. 1010879].

He was succeeded at this address in 1827 by W. S. Smith. 

Source: DEFM