Company school
(India late 18th century–late 19th century)
- Title
- A farmer
- Other titles:
- A Hindu cultivator
A farmer and his wife - Place of origin
-
Thanjavur (Tanjore) →
Tamil Nadu →
India
- Cultural origin
- Company school; probably by a Muslim artist working in Thanjavur.
- Year
- circa 1800
- Media categories
- Painting, Watercolour
- Materials used
- opaque watercolour with gold on paper
- Dimensions
-
22.5 x 18.0cm image; 28.0 x 23.0cm sheet
- Signature & date
- Not signed. Not dated.
- Credit
- Gift of Mr George Sandwith 1957
- Accession number
- 9639
- Location
- Not on display
- Further information
For further details on this genre of painting refer to Mildred Archer, "Company Paintings" (1992), pg.43-66. With the continued decline of India's ruling classes and a shift in the patronage of art, artists of the Mughal/Muslim courts migrated to the new centres of art patronised by the British. Thus the Persian inscription suggests the work of a Muslim artist. Stylistically these paintings conform to the Thanjavur style of Company school painting. (Refer to Chaitanya, 1994, "A History of Indian Painting: the Modern Period", pg.103).
From a series of paintings of castes and their occupations.
Asian Art Dept., AGNSW, 11 November 1997.
- Bibliography (2)
-
Haema Sivanesan (Australia) (Assistant Curator), Indian Painting, Sydney, 2001. cat.no. 4.2 In this publication this work is titled 'A farmer and his companion'.
'Folk Paintings and Souvenir Pictures', The Asian Collections Art Gallery of New South Wales 2003, 2003, 47 (colour illus.).
- Exhibition history (3)
-
Indian Painting, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 06 Apr 2001–11 Jun 2001.
unknown, Georges Melbourne Pty Ltd.
unknown, Royal Empire Society.
