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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?)

#BritishInIndia #IndianHeritage #MastoArt #Histodons #History #Heritage #Paintings

Another 'very rare to see this level of tailoring nowadays, even on the wealthy'.
#meme

c1820 AD #MughalArt from #Delhi & now at #DavidCollection (a big #museum in #Denmark).

Portrait of a Rohilla #Afghan from the Barech family, one of the many Pashtun clans from #Afghanistan who settled in Rohilkhand #UttarPradesh #india

#IndianHistory #art #IndianHeritage #museums #mastoart #paintings #MughalEmpire #heritage #history #mughal #painting #Costume

What a day. 3 back to back #Festival s today.
1. #HoliFestival #Holi #HappyHoli
2. #ShabEBarat #Shab_e_Barat
3. #WomensDay #InternationalWomensDay

In this 1707 AD #MughalArt #IndianMiniaturePainting by Bhavani Das of #Delhi & now at #DavidCollection #Mughal ruler Bahadur Shah on his Throne during an unknown #Celebration

This #Painting once belonged to #EastIndiaCompany #Bengal official Warren Hastings.

#India #IndianMiniaturePaintings #IndianFestival #Religion #Hindu #Hinduism #Islam

'Lovers in a Landscape'.

c1760 AD Provincial #Mughal #Painting from #Lucknow #Awadh #India now at #DavidCollection

Artist Mir Kalan Khan, like many other Mughal artists, worked in a style that appears quite electic. The young, indecisive couple who appear #Persian is being entertained by a more down to earth #Indian female musician.
The trees look #European, in a strange yellow background.

Nevertheless, the artist has managed to create a lively painting using Birds & Animals.
#Heritage #Art

@sanjayuvacha @IndiasMuslims
Artist #NidhaMal was a well known artist at the court of #Mughal Emperor #MuhammadShah #Rangila (1717-48) at #Delhi.
After the death of Rangila, he was not favoured by the new #Mughal Emperor #Aurengzeb. So, he left for #Lucknow where, in c1750 he painted this... an Unknown Prince exchanging gifts with a darker skinned Emissary.
Painting now in #DavidCollection, #Copenhagen, #Denmark.