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C1840
Untitled
Artist:
Company School
1840 INDIAN COMPANY SCHOOL PAINTINGS Set of four early C19th well executed Indian Company school watercolours, two of musicians, another of a messenger and the fourth of seated man. As the East India Company expanded in India during the end … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Untitled
Date:
C1840
Artist:
Company School
Condition:
One or two spots of colour loss, otherwise in good condition with strong fresh colours.
Technique:
Original watercolours, highlighted with gum Arabic
Image Size:
93mm
x 170mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1840
Description:
1840 INDIAN COMPANY SCHOOL PAINTINGS Set of four early C19th well executed Indian Company school watercolours, two of musicians, another of a messenger and the fourth of seated man. As the East India Company expanded in India during the end of the C18th, large numbers of it’s employees were eager to record the sights, people, fauna and flora that they saw. Initially they hired Indian artists to produce watercolours in the style that many travellers on European ‘grand tours’ had done before them. This style of painting became known as, ‘Company school Paintings’. By the beginning of the nineteenth century, local Indian artists began to create sets of popular subjects that could be sold through the major attractions. Three of the four figures has a tilak denoting followers of Vishnu whilst the fourth has a single white Bindi, perhaps signifying Brahmin caste. Reference Archer Early Views of India 1980
