Smith exhibited works in the Museum of Fine Arts in Copley Square (1877) and Williams &amp; Everett's gallery (c. 1877). He belonged to Boston's St. Botolph Club. He also acted as a judge in the 1876 U.S. Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia. Around the 1880s he served on the "Permanent Committee of the School of Drawing and Painting of the Museum of Fine Arts," Boston.