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UnknownIndia Calcutta Company School Painting Hooghly Indian Artist after Sita Ram c 1820
c 1820
About the Item
Company School
C 1820
Watercolour on Paper
Image Size: 31 x 47 cm
Frame Size: 49.5 x 65 cm
Label Verso Abbott & Holder, London
A fabulous and intriguing early, large watercolour, by an Indian artist. This painting warrants further research.
The image shows European buildings on what appears to be the banks of The Hooghly River in Eastern India (Bengal). This was an area favoured and painted by early landscape artists as the Europeans were active along the river which was the prime route for the movement of goods and people.
Without the group of figures to the foreground this painting could have been painted by Sita Ram or one the artists travelling with him (seen in the overall perspective and the rendition of the buildings, the boats in the water, and the horse and carriage). All are very finely painted.
A different hand appears to have painted the figural group in the foreground which is unusual as the group of servants are shown not in formal poses but in a grouping (at the foreground of the image, lounging) normally reserved for Europeans.
- Creation Year:c 1820
- Dimensions:Height: 19.49 in (49.5 cm)Width: 25.6 in (65 cm)Depth: 0.79 in (2 cm)
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- Condition:In very good overall condition. There appear to be water spots to the right (sky) these could be from the time of making.
- Gallery Location:Norfolk, GB
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