Image size: 52.5 x 41.8 cm,
Image size: 77.5 x 64 cm (Mount size)
According to local knowledge, this photograph features a descendent of Tan Kim Seng, and a child. Tan Kim Seng was a highly regarded merchant and philanthropist of Singapore, contributing to major public works and schools in Singapore and serving as a leader of the community in various capacities including Justice of the Peace (1850).This photo is part of a large group of framed photographs which provides important visual documentation of the fashion, studio photography and lifestyle of Peranakans of the Straits Settlements and Indonesia in the late 19th to mid 20th centuries. Studio photography possibly reached Singapore and the region in the mid 1800s, and Peranakans were among the earliest clients.