Folio from a Rasikapriya: Invocation and Blessings to Vishnu . Brahmins wave arati lamps and blow shankhas (conches) during Vishnupuja - Malwa, c1660

Medium: Opaque watercolour with gold on wasli
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Lady with huqqa held by child, a deer between them - Jaipur, c1800

Medium: Opaque watercolour with gold on wasli
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A syce (groom) stands with an officer's horse from the 8th Madras Light Cavalry, a background with bare rocky landscape and fort at Trichinoply - c1840

Medium: Opaque water colour on paper
In 1838 the 8th Madras Light Cavalry regiment was called to Calcutta and this probably explains the painting's being in the manner of Shaikh Muhammad Amir, the leading exponent of the Anglo-Indian style there. Common to some of Shaikh Muhammad Amir's productions are the distinctively curved shadows cast by horse and groom and similar silhouette-like tufts and blades of grass bordering lower edge. However this painting is more freely painted than were his and lacks his trademark miniaturistic hyper-realism not to mention his remarkable technical expertise. However, he was known to have employed artists to work in his style, and undoubtedly other individual artists followed suit with growth in demand amongst the many wealthy British residents and vistors to Calcutta

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Staff member from a wealthy European household, Calcutta (Kolkata), studio of Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya - c1840

Medium: Watercolour with white pigment on paper
Shaikh Muhammad Amir and artists employed at his studio to work in the same style are considered to have provided the high point in Anglo-Indian or 'Company School' painting produced in the north-eastern provinces of India during the late 18th to mid-19th centuries. He was prolific in producing paintings for the newly wealthy British inhabitants of Calcutta who were eager to commssion paintings often depicting houses and places of leisure, sometimes including every member of their domestic staff and servants, horses and pets.
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Milk woman from a wealthy European household, Calcutta (Kolkata), studio of Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya - c1840

Medium: Watercolour with white pigment on paper
Shaikh Muhammad Amir and artists employed at his studio to work in the same style are considered to have provided the high point in Anglo-Indian or 'Company School' painting produced in the north-eastern provinces of India during the late 18th to mid-19th centuries. He was prolific in producing paintings for the newly wealthy British inhabitants of Calcutta who were eager to commssion paintings often depicting their houses and places of leisure, sometimes including every member of their domestic staff and servants, horses and pets.
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