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William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Biron in "Love's Labour's Lost"
Image | Portraits of Actorscarrying sword, pointed hat with fur trim.
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Alexander in "The Rival Queens"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of Actorsholding a spear. With text: "When Glory like the dazling Eagle stood Perch'd on my Beaver in the Granick Flood."
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as King Henry VIII in "Henry VIII"
Image | 1781 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, holding can and letters. With text: "See - here are Letters fall'n into my hands."
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Phocyas in "The Siege of Damascus"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing long cape. With text: "Now to the field to gain the glorious prize."
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Young Mirabel in "The Inconstant"
Image | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait.
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Archer in "The Beaux' Stratagem"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "My Lady How d'ye, the last Mistress I serv'd call'd me up one Morning & told me, Martin, go to my Lady all night, with my humble Service."
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as the Duke of Norfolk in "The Albion Queens"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsShe bid me thus present it on my knees."
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Orestes in "Electra"
Image | 1780 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing armor and helmet with plume. With text: "He is, if I am so."
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Phocyas in "The Siege of Damascus"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, standing outdoors, with a palm tree, a bridge, and a church in the background. With text: "Did I not hear the Murmurs of a Voice - a Woman's too?"
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Phocyas in "The Siege of Damascus"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait. With text: "I'm Man, frail Man to error born."
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Piercy in "Anna Bullen"
Image | 1777 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing hat with feathers, doublet with slashes, shoes, cape.
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Alexander in "The Rival Queens"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, dressed in armor and helmet.
Mary Ann Yates (nee Graham) as Lady Townley and William Smith as Lord Townley in a scene from "The Provoked Husband"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of ActorsScene with the two facing each other. With text: Lady Townley -- "I am now going to a party at Quadrille, only to piddle with a little of it, at poor two Guineas a fish, with the Duchess of Quiteright."
John Henderson as Bireno, William Smith as Paladore, and Elizabeth (Younge) Pope as the Princess in a scene from "The Law of Lombardy"
Image | 1779 | Portraits of Actorsin front Bireno and Paladore holding swords in duel, one wounded and leaving the fight.
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Captain Plume in "The Recruiting Officer"
Image | 1776 | Portraits of Actorsafter you have dash'd out his Brains with the But-End of your Firelock? eh?"
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Publius in "The Roman Father"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of Actorsholding truncheon.
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as King Richard III in "Richard III"
Image | 1775 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, in swordfighting stance. With text: "of one or both of us the time has come."
Portrait of William Smith ("Gentleman Smith")
Image | 1789 | Portraits of ActorsHalf-length portrait.
William Smith ("Gentleman Smith") as Oroonoko in "Oroonoko"
Image | 1778 | Portraits of ActorsWhole-length portrait, wearing long robe. With text: "Bless me indeed!"

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