Published to coincide with the first UK exhibition of these masterworks at The Wallace Collection, Forgotten Masters celebrates the work of a series of extraordinary Indian artists. 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. Each had their own style, tastes and agency, and all of them worked for British patrons between the 1770s and the bloody end of the Mughal rule in 1857. Edited by writer and historian William…mehr
Published to coincide with the first UK exhibition of these masterworks at The Wallace Collection, Forgotten Masters celebrates the work of a series of extraordinary Indian artists. 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. Each had their own style, tastes and agency, and all of them 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.
William Dalrymple is one of Britain's great historians and the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning White Mughals, The Last Mughal, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning Return of a King. A frequent broadcaster, he has written and presented three television series, one of which won the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA. He has also won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Sunday Times Young British Writer of the Year Award, the Foreign Correspondent of the Year at the FPA Media Awards, and been awarded five honorary doctorates. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, the Royal Asiatic Society and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has held visiting fellowships at Princeton, Brown and All Souls, University of Oxford. He writes regularly for the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker and the Guardian. In 2018 he was presented with the prestigious President's Medal by the British Academy for his outstanding literary achievement and for co-founding the Jaipur Literature Festival. He is the co-host of chart-topping podcast Empire with Anita Anand. William lives with his wife and three children on a goat farm outside Delhi.
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Director's Foreword Xavier Bray Introduction William Dalrymple The Master Artists of Lucknow Painting in Lucknow 1776-1799 Rosie Llewellyn-Jones The Master Artists of the Impey Album The natural history paintings of Shaikh Zain ud-Din, Bhawani Das and Ram Das Andrew Topsfield The Natural World Indian Export Art? The botanical drawings H.J. Noltie The Bengali artist Haludar Malini Roy Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya and Yellapah of Vellore Bespoke: painting to order in 1830s Calcutta and Vellore Lucian Harris The Late Mughal Master Artists of Delhi And Agra Ghulam Ali Khan and the Delhi School of Painting Yuthika Sharma Sita Ram and the Hastings Albums Sita Ram J.P. Losty
Director's Foreword Xavier Bray Introduction William Dalrymple The Master Artists of Lucknow Painting in Lucknow 1776-1799 Rosie Llewellyn-Jones The Master Artists of the Impey Album The natural history paintings of Shaikh Zain ud-Din, Bhawani Das and Ram Das Andrew Topsfield The Natural World Indian Export Art? The botanical drawings H.J. Noltie The Bengali artist Haludar Malini Roy Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya and Yellapah of Vellore Bespoke: painting to order in 1830s Calcutta and Vellore Lucian Harris The Late Mughal Master Artists of Delhi And Agra Ghulam Ali Khan and the Delhi School of Painting Yuthika Sharma Sita Ram and the Hastings Albums Sita Ram J.P. Losty
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