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The subject is possibly Husain 'Ali Khan, who was Treasurer and Head of the Royal Household during the first half of Nasr al-Din Shah, as well as 'Assayer of the Realm' (Mu'ayyir al-Mamalik). A portrait dated AH 1270/AD 1853-54 is in the Khalili Collection (see S. Vernoit, Occidentalism: Islamic Art in the 19th Century, London 1997, p. 119, no. 67; also illustrated in J. Raby, Qajar Portraits, London 1999, pp. 60-61, no. 121.