About this portrait
The sitter has not yet been identified — a Western (probably Dutch) gentleman in tropical white dress with a cork helmet and umbrella, against a painted tropical backdrop. What makes this cabinet card unusual is that it was made not in the Netherlands but in Japan, by S. Suzuki (Suzuki Shin’ichi II, 1855–1912), who took over the Tokyo branch (Kudanzaka) of the studio from his father-in-law Suzuki Shin’ichi I (Masagocho, Yokohama). This is probably a Dutchman passing through or stationed in the region.
