The Palace of Rohtas Garh #Bihar, signed by William Daniell
Sold by @Sothebys on 27th October 2021 from the Carlton Rochell collection of #CompanyPainting s for £ 302,400

On #WorldHeritageDay

'Two Caparisoned Elephants' from the Louisa Parlby Album, c1795 #CE #CompanyPainting from #Murshidabad #India sold by Sotheby's on March 20th for $53,340
Louisa was the wife of Col. James Parlby, an Engineer with the #EastIndiaCompany at #Bengal

The 'B' on the #Elephant may refer to Edward Eyre Burgess, a Judge at Murshidabad in 1772 AD who travelled around with pomp & ceremony

As #Delhi gets 'verdant foliage' after the #DelhiRains I am beset with overgrown grass in my garden

So, I have to call the 'Grass Cutter' and, here he is in this c1830 CE #CompanyPainting from the Balfour Album of 26 #Paintings from the studio of Shaykh Muhammad Amir of #Karraya #Bengal sold by Lyon & Turnbull for £ 112,700 on 21st June from the collection of Mildred Archer

Gold!
For #ArshadNadeem of #Pakistan

And, a Silver for #NeerajChopra of #India

Congratulations to both for winning #Javelin at #Paris2024 #OlympicGames

'A Trooper of Skinners Horse holding a Javelin', c1815 CE #CompanyPainting from Hansi, #Haryana from the Carlton Rochell collection sold by Sotheby's on 27th October 2021 for £107,100

Commissioned by Nawab Asaf al-Daula of #Awadh as a part of a famine relief project in 1784 CE, the Bara Imambara at #Lucknow #India is an important place of celebration by #Shia #Muslims during #Muharram

This c1800 CE #CompanyPainting of the Complex is now at The Metropolitan #Museum of #Art, New York #TheMet

Martyrdom of #imamhussain at #karbala

A 'Dorcah' (Dog keeper)

Balfour Album (26 #CompanyPainting's) made by #Artist Shaykh Muhammad Amir of #Bengal sold by Lyonand Turnbull June 21 for £122,700

Balfour arrived in #India in 1834 as an Assistant Surgeon to the #EastIndiaCompany s #Madras Medical Service

He wrote on Indian Languages, Literature, Forestry & Medicine including an 'Encyclopedia of India & Southern Asia' published at Madras in 1857

The #Agra Fort from the North & near the #TajMahal by #Artist Sita Ram, commissioned by the Marquess & Marchioness of #Hastings The Earl of Moria (1754-1826)

This 1815 CE #CompanyPainting from a set was made when the Marquess, as the #EastIndiaCompany Governor General at #Barrackpore #Bengal undertook a journey from #Calcutta to the #Himalayas North of #Delhi in 1814 to inspect British possessions & meet Indian rulers along the way

Sold by Sotheby's on April 24 for £190, 500

A botanical study (clerodendron), from an album executed for Mountstuart Grant Duff, Governor of #Madras now #Chennai

This c1875 CE #CompanyPainting attributed to
the #Artist Rungia Raju will be on Bonhams auction on May 21

Rungia appears to be a descendant of a family of #Artists who worked for the officials of the #EastIndiaCompany

Duff came from a family historically associated with #India, and was particularly interested in gardening & botany

Here is the headless astronomical shadow entity Rahu again, in this c1825 CE #CompanyPainting from #Patna #Bihar #India now at British #Museum London

Riding a Blue Ram, he is looking out for the Sun or the Moon which he will devour to replace his head which was cut off by the #Hindu God #Vishnu for eating His food and thus causing #SolarEclipse2024 & Lunar eclipse some other time.

From the #DavidCollection at #Copenhagen #Denmark 'A Company of Englishmen' with the clumsy Army Officer Tom Raw overturning a #Huqqa during dinner at #Calcutta #Bengal

c1830 #CompanyPainting from #Patna #Bihar #India by an Indian #Artist based on a work by an Irish #EastIndiaCompany officer & artist, Charles D'Oyly, who founded an #Art society strangely named as the 'Bihar School of Athens'.
(Why Athens?)

A Silk Cotton Tree (Bombax ceiba)

These trees are in full bloom in & around #Delhi now
This also means that the #Hindu #Festival of #Holi is not far off.
The flowers of this tree is used to make red colour, no chemicals needed.

c1800 CE #CompanyPainting from #Calcutta #Bengal #India from the Carlton Rochell collection sold by Sothebys on 27th Oct 2021 for £32,760

In support of the saying 'To Blow One's Top Off' I present this c1815 CE #CompanyPainting from #Benares #Varanasi now at British Library #Museum

The front & back #Painting of a Sepoy (Soldier) of #EastIndiaCompany

With Military Caps like that, even a dog bark would've been sufficient to blow his top off!

#BritishInIndia #Art #IndianHeritage #IndianHistory #Paintings #Heritage #Histodons #History#Heritage #Artist #MastoArt #Museums #Military #Uniform

A Tamarind Branch

c1800 CE #CompanyPainting from #Kolkata #Bengal likely to have been made by an #Artist commissioned by William Roxburgh, who became the 1st Superintendent of the #Calcutta Botanic Garden in 1793

Over the next 20 years, he assembled over 2500 #Paintings & copies were made for his #EastIndiaCompany friends like Lord Wellesley

From the collection of Toby Falk sold by Christies on 27th Oct 2023 for £60,500

Love this!
(And the #Fish that wifey is cooking)

A Chowta Dantnia (#Bengal Yellowfin Seabream)

#CompanyPainting made by #Artist Bhawani Das of #Patna for #ImpeyAlbum in 1783 CE, the year Lord & #LadyImpey left #Calcutta for England

From the Toby Falk colln sold by Christies for £94,500

Lord Impey was the #EastIndiaCompany first Chief Justice of the High Court at #Kolkata #India

Just finished my dinner and before I wish everyone #GoodNight here is what I had, an Eggplant (Aubergines to some).

This 19th century #CompanyPainting from #Calcutta #Bengal was sold by Christies on 22nd March 2023.

A Lesser Coucal (Centropus Bengalensis on a Frangipani (Plumeria Alba) Branch.

This stunning #CompanyPainting was made by #Artist Shaykh Zain al-Din native of #Patna for the #ImpeyAlbum of #LadyImpey of #Calcutta #Bengal in 1777 CE

This #Painting was discovered in the 1950's & was auctioned by Christies on 27th Oct 2023 from the Toby Falk collection for £504,000.

Portrait of Buhadoorah, inscribed possibly by William Fraser as '..ONE OF THE HEAD MEN OF SAWPLUH(?) DISTRICT OF MAUDOUTHEE(?), WEST OF DEHLEE (#Delhi), 30 MILES'

Sawpluh & MAUDOUTHEE is now identified as Sampla & Mandhoti in Rohtak district of #Haryana

The Album was discovered in 1980 at Inverness, Scotland & was the scholarship of the #Art #Historian Toby Falk.

c1820 CE #CompanyPainting from the #FraserAlbum from the Toby Falk coll sold by Christies for £264,600

The usual combination: High Society & Money Lending.

c1780 CE #CompanyPainting from #Madras now at British Library of the socialite Lady Helena Oakley who once hosted Tipu Sultan's sons at her 1794 CE New Year's Ball & the notorious money lender Sir Admiral Edward Hughes, Commander of #RoyalNavy in the East Indies & #India

#GoodMorning everyone

My #NewYearsResolutions are made.

I am going to eat healthy!

Like, a 'Papaya' as in this c1800 CE #CompanyPainting from #Calcutta #Bengal made for Major James Nathaniel Rind, who commissioned a large number of botanical & zoological #Paintings during his time in #India

Sold @bonhams1793 for £127,000.

#IndianHeritage #BritishInIndia #IndianHistory #Art #Heritage #History #EastIndiaCompany #MastoArt #Painting #Flora #Fauna

#HappyNewYear
Have a great year ahead.

c1825 CE #CompanyPainting of a 'Foxtail Millet' from the Welch collection auctioned by Sotheby's.

Production of natural history paintings for British & #EastIndiaCompany patrons began in the 1770s & were first commissioned by Dr James Kerr, a Scottish surgeon at #Bengal who arrived in #India in 1772.

BTW, Millets are fast becoming a fashionable staple food for Indians!