Maharaja Chattar Sal of Kotah with Sir Henry Lawrence

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Maharaja Chattar Sal of Kotah with Sir Henry Lawrence
Kotah, second half 19th Century

Gouache heightened with gold on paper, in an interior with a striped floor, the Maharaja of Kotah sits facing Sir Henry, several nobles and courtiers sit with them in European-style chairs, attendants stand behind with peacock-feather flywhisks, yellow border between black rules, red leaf with white rules, white devnagari inscription above, (some flaking and creasing, negligible spotting), mounted, framed and glazed
miniature 10¾ x 16¾in. (27.4 x 42.6cm.)

Lot Essay

For another portrait of the Maharaja see: Vita di Corte nel Rajasthan, Exhibition Catalogue, Turin, 1995, no.33
Other portraits of Sir Henry Lawrence are published in Aijazuddin, F.S.: Pahari Paintings and Sikh Portraits in the Lahore Museum, London, 1977, nos.82(ii) and 83

Sir Henry Lawrence (1806-1857) had a distinguished career in India, culminating in his appointment as Chief Commissioner and A.G.G. in Oudh. He died defending the residency in Lucknow during the mutiny. Remembered for his sympathies with the native aristocracy, and for the establishment of the Lawrence Asylums for children of European soldiers, his statue is in St. Paul's Cathedral.

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