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Movement · c. 1770 – 1910

Academic & Colonial

Raja Ravi Varma, the Company painters, and the collision of European technique with Indian subjects under the Raj.

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When India's Best Painters Worked for the Company

Mughal-trained masters lost their emperors and found new bosses: British clerks who wanted birds, beetles, and the occasional pink-headed duck.

Jun 22Academic & Colonial9 min read
When India's Best Painters Worked for the Company