Posted on: 10 August 2010

IN THE COMPANY OF ART
The Company School of Painting, or pictures made by artists during the British Raj, refers to the genre of pictures that were specifically commissioned by or made for the John Company officials and other European residents. Pran Nevile gives a vivid account of the socio-cultural practices of the period, replete with rich and rare visuals brought together for the first time in his latest book.

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THE most notable artists who captured the Indian panorama in their paintings were William Hodges who travelled to India between 1780-83 producing his Select Views of India in 1787 and the uncle and nephew team of Thomas and William Daniell who toured the country extensively, making sketches and watercolours, which they took back to England and produced their famous six-volume series of aquatints, Oriental Scenery.


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Read the complete article : http://www.tribuneindia.com/2007/20070429/spectrum/main1.htm

This is probably Polier in the painting......

Absolutely right Dr.Ruchika ! : )

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I was in the National Gallery Bookshop in London recently, when I found a most interesting book by Penelope Treadwell called Johan Zoffany, Artist and Adventurer, published in 2009. It has several really good chapters on the art World in Lucknow. Zoffany arrived there very shortly after William Hodges, and Polier was a major patron to both artists. It is well worth reading as the story of these artists and the various patrons is told very well by Penelope Treadwell. Nick Balmer

The painters whose illustrations captured the period and froze them in time forever.