Smythe was a prolific collector of watercolours, and in the 1950s, he donated his collection to the Dunedin Public Art Gallery and New Zealand's National Art Gallery.[3] The decision to make the donation to galleries in a county he never visited came after a long friendship with New Zealand art curator and gallery director Annette Pearse.[3]
^‘SMYTHE, Canon Francis Henry Dumville’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 18 July 2016
^"Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900 " Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. v. Pace – Spyers, 1953 p581
^ObituariesThe Times (London, England), Monday, Oct 10, 1966; pg. 12; Issue 56758