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Lot Essay
The identification of the present view was made by Karen Taylor, presumably based on information supplied by descendants of the Earl of Minto, from whom the watercolour was purchased by Spink, London. The present view does not suffice to confirm the identification but study of a number of early views goes some way to help support the fact (see a folded copper engraving published by J. Tiefenthaler, Description historique et Géographique de l'Inde..., Berlin, 1786, vol. I, facing p. 20 published again in S. Noti, Das Fürstentum Sardhana. Geschichte eines deutschen Abenteurers und einer indischen Herrscherin, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1906, p. 38).
According to the catalogue for the 1996 Spink exhibition the watercolour shows Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Elliot being carried in a palanquin after receiving a wound. Elliot was the eldest son of the Rt. Hon. Hugh Elliot, Governor of Madras from 1814-1820 and nephew of Gilbert Elliot, 1st Earl of Minto who was Governor-general of India from 1807-1813. Henry Elliot's younger sister, Emma, married Sir Thomas Hislop, Commander-in-Chief in Madras, on whose staff Elliot served. This information helps to explain the watercolours appearance in the Minto collection.
Again, according to information supplied to Bautze by Karen Taylor, van Buerle was 'commissioned 26th July 1809, 75th Foot...served in various regiments until 1825 when he changed his name to van Baerd or van Baerle and he disappears after 1835'. He is said to have been one of Hislop's aides-de-campe but little is known of his life or his work as an artist. The date and actual event depicted are open to speculation.
According to the catalogue for the 1996 Spink exhibition the watercolour shows Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Elliot being carried in a palanquin after receiving a wound. Elliot was the eldest son of the Rt. Hon. Hugh Elliot, Governor of Madras from 1814-1820 and nephew of Gilbert Elliot, 1st Earl of Minto who was Governor-general of India from 1807-1813. Henry Elliot's younger sister, Emma, married Sir Thomas Hislop, Commander-in-Chief in Madras, on whose staff Elliot served. This information helps to explain the watercolours appearance in the Minto collection.
Again, according to information supplied to Bautze by Karen Taylor, van Buerle was 'commissioned 26th July 1809, 75th Foot...served in various regiments until 1825 when he changed his name to van Baerd or van Baerle and he disappears after 1835'. He is said to have been one of Hislop's aides-de-campe but little is known of his life or his work as an artist. The date and actual event depicted are open to speculation.