# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/matilda-smith
# Generated: 2026-08-12T17:13:05.057Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/matilda-smith"
name: "Matilda Smith"
slug: "matilda-smith"
description: "Matilda Smith was a botanical artist whose work appeared in Curtis's Botanical Magazine for over forty years. She became the first artist to depict New Zealand's flora in depth, the first official artist of the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and the second woman to become an associate of the Linnaean Society. The standard author abbreviation M.Sm. is used to indicate this person as the author when citing a botanical name."
tagline: "British botanical illustrator and botanist (1854-1926)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Matilda_Smith00.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Scientists"
  slug: "scientists"
profileType:
  name: "Scientist"
  slug: "scientist"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1854-07-30"
deathDate: "1927-01-05"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15
  historical:           13.806192
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump