Travancore Artist, circa 1836

Portrait of the Dewan of Travancore, Bala Rama Varma, half-length

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Travancore Artist, circa 1836
Portrait of the Dewan of Travancore, Bala Rama Varma, half-length
pencil, pen and ink and watercolour, heightened with white, fragmentary watermark
6.7/8 x 5¼ in. (17.6 x 13.4 cm.)

展览

London, Eyre and Hobhouse, Company Painting; a Century of Indian Art for European Patrons, June, 1982.

拍品专文

In 1684 the British established a factory at Anjengo in Travancore, on the Malabar coast, and later built a fort. The region encountered many foreign influences with Arab, Jewish and Syrian Christian communities having occupied the area before the Europeans. In the late 18th century a tradition of portrait painting on paper developed in the Tranvancore court influenced by both Mughal and western styles.