LIEUTENANT COLONEL DALY
LIEUTENANT COLONEL DALY
LIEUTENANT COLONEL DALY
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LIEUTENANT COLONEL DALY

POSSIBLY AWADH OR BENGAL, INDIA, 1840-60

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LIEUTENANT COLONEL DALY
POSSIBLY AWADH OR BENGAL, INDIA, 1840-60
Gouache heightened with gold on paper, set within yellow borders with black and white rules, the margins red with nasta'liq inscription at the top, the verso plain
Painting 10 ¾ x 7 1⁄8in. (27.8 x 18cm); folio 15 7⁄8 x 9 5⁄8in. (40.5 x 24.5cm.)

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Lot Essay

The inscription at the top of the painting suggests that this is either Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Dermot Daly, who held that rank in the 4th Light Dragoons between 1842-46, or his son Sir Henry Dermot Daly who was awarded the rank in 1859 with Hodson's Horse irregular cavalry.

A near identical portrait attributed to Hyderabad circa 1800 is published Indian Paintings from the 17th to 19th centuries, exhibition catalogue, Tooth Paintings, London, 1979, no. 18.

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