Deathbed Portrait, daguerreotype, mid 19th century. Currently held in a museum collection.

Post-mortem photography was a type of post-mortem portraiture that became more commonplace with the invention of the daguerreotype. Nowadays we take it for granted to have pictures, voicemails and videos of people that passed, however back then none of these really were a possibility for families that lost someone dear to them, and a painted portrait of course wasn't exactly something the majority of people coult afford.
However the daguerreotype became the first type of photography that made it more affordable for the middle class to get their likeness taken, and so with it the trend of post-mortem portraiture continued. For many probably being their only chance to keep something tangible to remember their lost ones by.
The estimated time of death of Nomax would put him right into that first wave of daguerreotype portraiture, and thus it was something i was itching to explore.