Saturday, February 8, 2020

Rare Portrait of Ahmad Shah Qajar, King of Persia

A rare portrait of Ahmad Shah Qajar, king of Persia, by Seyyed Hossein Arjangi (aka Mir Mossavar).
1910 / oil on canvas.

Currently, the painting is kept in a private collection in Europe.

Ahmad Shah
(1898-1930) was only 11 when he came to the throne. This portrait which may have been made from a photograph, was intended to give the child a proud, imperial bearing. But in actual fact he had little power.

Ahmad Shah was the first constitutional monarch of Persia (Iran). In 1921 his war minister Reza Khan fomented a coup and later founded the Pahlavi dynasty.


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