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Forgotten Masters - Indian Painting for the East India Company (Hardcover)
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Forgotten Masters - Indian Painting for the East India Company (Hardcover)
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As the East India Company extended its sway across India in the
late eighteenth century, many remarkable artworks were commissioned
by Company officials from Indian painters who had previously worked
for the Mughals. Published to coincide with the first UK exhibition
of these masterworks at The Wallace Collection, this book
celebrates the work of a series of extraordinary Indian artists,
each with their own style and tastes and agency, all of whom worked
for British patrons between the 1770s and the bloody end of the
Mughal rule in 1857. Edited by writer and historian William
Dalrymple, these hybrid paintings explore both the beauty of the
Indian natural world and the social realities of the time in one
hundred masterpieces, often of astonishing brilliance and
originality. They shed light on a forgotten moment in Anglo-Indian
history during which Indian artists responded to European
influences while keeping intact their own artistic visions and
styles. These artists represent the last phase of Indian artistic
genius before the onset of the twin assaults - photography and the
influence of western colonial art schools - ended an unbroken
tradition of painting going back two thousand years. As these
masterworks show, the greatest of these painters deserve to be
remembered as among the most remarkable Indian artists of all time.
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