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His father, James Smillie ( 1807 – 1885 ), a Scottish engraver, emigrated to New York in 1829, was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1851, did much, with his brother William Cumming ( 1813 – 1908 ), to develop the engraving of bank-notes, and was an excellent landscape-engraver.