Photographic portrait of English operatic tenor Sims Reeves, circa 1865

Albumen print photograph, carte de visite format, 102 x 61 mm, verso with imprint of Herbert Watkins, 215 Regent Street [London] and contemporary pencilled inscription Sims Reeves, the albumen print in very good condition (a little pale), the mount clean. 

John Sims Reeves (1818-1900) was one the most celebrated tenors of the nineteenth century.