Lot 1264
COUNT AMADEO PREZIOSI (1816-1882)
PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN, BELIEVED TO BE CAPTAIN WILLIAM ST. JAMES BALL, A QUEEN'S FOREIGN SERVICE MESSENGER
Seated, three quarter length, wearing a dark coat and checked trousers, holding a cigarette, signed and dated Constantinople 1875, watercolour and pencil, oval
36 x 28cm.
Provenance: By descent in the sitter's family; with two Courier's Passports for Ball for 1880 and 1881
