Carte-de-visite half length photograph of King Francis II of Naples. The subject is shown in three quarter view, facing towards the right of the image. He is seated on a wooden chair against a plain background. He has dark hair and a full beard and moustache. He is wearing a white shirt with a turn down collar, a pale coloured silk cravat and a matching dark coloured waistcoat and suit jacket. He is holding his hands crossed in his lap.

Francis was the only son and heir of Ferdinand II of the Two Sicilies by his first wife, Maria Christina of Savoy. In 1859 Francis married Duchess Maria Sophie of Bavaria and they had an only daughter, who died at the age of three months.