Another pose from the same sitting

'DEATH OF ALBERT SMITH — We have to announce that Albert Smith expired yesterday morning at his house in Fulham. The cause of his death was a most sudden and severe attack of bronchitis. 

'Alber Smith was one of the best known and most popular of our public men; and nothing in his whole career has done anything like so much to make him so as his most entertaining lectures at the Egyptian-hall in London. 

'Albert Smith was born May 24, 1816, at Chertsey, educated at Merchant Taylors', and studied Medicine at the Middlesex Hospital, becoming a member of the College of Surgeons in 1838; after which he continued his studies at the Hôtel Dieu and Clamart, in Paris, and then practised with his father in Chertsey. He found that his pen brought him in much more money then his lancet, and after writing for the Medical Times some clever and characterist papers [...] he came up to town in 1841 and began in earnest his literary career by writing for the magazines. [...] He has also contributed extensively to the magazines, newspapers, and other periodicals, articles the enumeration of which would occupy too considerable a space in these columns. He went to the east in 1849, and brought out his interesting volume "A Month in Contantinople." On his return he established the entertainment called "The Overland Mail," which came out May 26, 1850. He ascended Mont Blanc August 12, 1851, and his entertainment founded thereon was produced at the Egyptian-hall, March 15, 1852. So remarkable was the popularity of this illustrated lecture that it attracted the Queen to the Hall in July, 1854, and Albert Smith repeated it to her Majesty's private family circle at Osborne the following August. [...] In the midst of his career at the Egyptian-hall, he made one or two more visits to Mont Blanc, and even extended his foreign tour on one occasion as far as China! Here he picked up materials for another still more novel entertainment, in which some of the more particular features of the Celestial Empire and its extraordinary people were described in his happiest vein. This entertainment like the other became immensely popular. That of Mont Blanc had lately been resumed, and retained its popularity to its very last representation, not many days ago.' (Northern Daily Times, 24 May 1860). 

'DEATH OF MR ALBERT SMITH — This most celebrated of modern entertainers died at his residence near London on Wednesday morning, after a brief, but severe, illness, arising from bronchitis. Mr Smith was born at Chertsey, May 24th, 1816, and was brought up to the medical profession, but which he abandoned for what was to him the more lucrative profession of literature. In 1840 he visited the East, and published the result of his travels, and afterwards produced his descriptive entertainment entitled "The Overland Mail." In the autumn of 1851, Mr Smith ascended Mont Blanc, and in the following season produced another descriptive entertainment illustrative of that event in his life; and in 1859 Mr Smith visited China, which was the subject of his last entertainment. It was only last August that he was married to Miss Mary Keeley, eldest daughter of Mr Robert Keeley, the celebrated comedian, and was in the height of fame and happiness, when, on the day before last Christmas Eve, he was seized with a fit, a curious combination of apoplexy and epilepsy, by which he was prostated for some three weeks. That attack seems to have made a great inroad upon his constitution, for since that period he has not been the same man' (Cardiff Times, 26 May 1860).