A rare portrait of a munshi, or interpreter, perhaps named Muhammad Sami, by Sir William Beechey RA (1753-1839)
Lot 292
oil on panel, signed and lower right, reverse with label with inscription Moonshee, an Asiatic/Interpreter – painted by/Sir W. Beechey. Moonshee; sold with a black and white photograph of the painting taken probably in the 1950s, 1786
