Another pose from the same sitting

While he was performing in London during the summer of 1862, he married an Italian girl by the name of Domenica Serafina Bernini on 28 July in the Roman Catholic church of St John the Evangelist on Duncan Terrace in Islington. The marriage was not a successful one, and in December 1864 it was reported in several newspapers that ‘The wife of Leotard [...] who now calls herself “Madame Silvia Bernini,” has brought an action against her husband suing for a separation and it is said that the marriage may be annulled.’