John Balli
Date of birth: 1849
Place of birth: Switzerland?
Date of death: 1914
Place of death: London
Category: collector
Identity:
Balli was a collector. He may have worked for the Imperial Mercantile Credit Association and Metropolitan Provincial Bank, whose Director was Xenophon Balli (1814-1877).
Life:
He was, with a number of Whistler's other patrons, a member of the Greek Orthodox Church in London. He was a witness at the marriage of Alexander Constantine Ionides in 1887.
In 1891 he was aged 42 and with his Turkish wife Helen was living at 50 Holland Park.
He was a collector and patron of Whistler (he owned Gold and Orange: The Neighbours y423). His collection was sold at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris on 22 May 1913.
Bibliography:
The London Banks, Credit, Discount and Finance Companies, London, December 1865, p. 57; Constantinides, Michael, The Greek Orthodox Church in London, Oxford, 1933.
