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Lot Essay
Daulat Rao Scindia was fifteen when he succeeded to the throne and was given the title Amir al-Umara by the Mughal Emperor Shah 'Alam II on the year of his accession. He was a significant part of the Maratha resistance against the British East India Company during the Second and Third Anglo-Maratha Wars.
This painting bears close similarity to a portrait of Maratha General Ram Rao Phalke attributed to Gwalior circa 1865, formerly in the Binney Collection (R. Crill and K. Jariwala, The Indian Portrait, London, 2010, pp. 168-169, no. 50). Therefore the portrait was likely painted after Daulat Rao Scindia's death in 1827. Another comparable portrait, perhaps from the same series as the ex-Binney Portrait, was sold in these Rooms, 26 May 2016, lot 43 and another portrait of Daulat Rao Scindia was sold as part of the Peggy and David Rockerfeller collection in Christie's New York, 10 May 2018, lot 1017.
This painting bears close similarity to a portrait of Maratha General Ram Rao Phalke attributed to Gwalior circa 1865, formerly in the Binney Collection (R. Crill and K. Jariwala, The Indian Portrait, London, 2010, pp. 168-169, no. 50). Therefore the portrait was likely painted after Daulat Rao Scindia's death in 1827. Another comparable portrait, perhaps from the same series as the ex-Binney Portrait, was sold in these Rooms, 26 May 2016, lot 43 and another portrait of Daulat Rao Scindia was sold as part of the Peggy and David Rockerfeller collection in Christie's New York, 10 May 2018, lot 1017.