Husain Quli Khan, Qajar Governor of Urumiyyah, signed by Doust Mohammed, Qajar Persia, dated 1920

Husain Quli Khan, Qajar Governor of Urumiyyah, signed by Doust Mohammed
Qajar Persia, dated 1920
Watercolour on paper, signed and dated 1920 in Latin script lower right, in an early 20th Century European card mount, printed label affixed with identifying inscription in Persian
painting 332 x 247 mm.; mount 398 x 340 mm.

The printed inscription on the mount reads: shabih-e husayn-quli-khan bayglar-baygi afshar qasemlu keh dar sanah 1234 hokmran-e urumi va ghayrah budehand: 'The portrait of Husain Quli Khan, the tribal chief of the Afshar Qasimlu who was Governor of Urumiyyah in the year 1237/1821-22.' The sitter was apparently a son of Imam Quli, the chief of the Qasimlu tribe in Urumiyyah, born in 1773, and who died falling off a horse on 27th Sha'ban 1236/30th May 1821. One of his daughters became one of Fath 'Ali Shah's wives.