Albert Richard Smith
(1816-1860), Writer, public lecturer and mountaineerSitter in 15 portraits
Initially a surgeon, in the 1840s Smith became a popular journalist and humorist. He was an early contributor to Punch and a regular contributor to Richard Bentley's Miscellany, in whose pages his first and most successful book, The Adventures of Mr Ledbury, appeared in 1842. Smith became best known, however, for his entertaining lectures about his travels in the 1850s. In 1851 he climbed Mont Blanc. The following year Mr. Albert Smith's Ascent of Mont Blanc opened at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, on a stage resembling a Swiss chalet. The show was a sensation; it ran for two thousand performances and helped to popularise mountain climbing in mid-Victorian Britain.
by Herbert Watkins
albumen print, arched top, late 1850s
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by Herbert Watkins
albumen print, late 1850s
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by Harry Furniss
pen and ink
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Group including Clarkson Stanfield, Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Augustus Leopold Egg
after Unknown photographer
photogravure, (1857)
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by Adolphe Paul Auguste Beau, for Camille Silvy
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1860
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by Camille Silvy
albumen carte-de-visite, circa 1860
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'Upwards of five hundred photographic portraits of the most celebrated personages of the age'
by Frederick Holland Mares, after Disdéri, and Camille Silvy, and Duroni & Murer, and Émile Desmaisons, and John Jabez Edwin Mayall, and Herbert Watkins, and William Edward Kilburn, and Horatio Nelson King, and John & Charles Watkins, and James Mudd, and Unknown photographers, published by Ashford Brothers & Co
albumen carte-de-visite, 1863
On display in Room 22 on Floor 2 at the National Portrait Gallery
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by Charles Baugniet, printed by M & N Hanhart, published by Leader & Cock
lithograph, 1844
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by Richard James Lane, after Field Talfourd
lithograph, 1854
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by Charles Baugniet
lithograph, 1855
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by Daniel John Pound, after a photograph by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
stipple and line engraving, published 1858
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by Daniel John Pound
stipple and line engraving, circa 1860
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published by The Illustrated Review, after a photograph by Herbert Watkins
wood engraving, published 3 April 1873
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by Daniel John Pound, after a photograph by John Jabez Edwin Mayall
stipple and line engraving, published 1858
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published by The Illustrated Review, after a photograph by Herbert Watkins
wood engraving, published 3 April 1873
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