Lot Essay
Mirza Baba Husayni al-Imami Isfahani is mentioned in Karimzadeh Tabrizi, (M.A.:The Lives and Art of Old Painters of Iran, London, 1991, vol.3, pp.1286-7, entry no.1316). His works are dated between the years 1259-1273 AH (1843-1856 AD). He also worked on paintings in the Churchill Album, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, including a portrait of the young Nasr al-Din Shah, (Robinson, B.W.: Persian Painting from Collections in the British Isles, London, 1967, no.102, pp.81-83).
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