A horse and carriage; and seven portraits of polo ponies, Lucknow

細節

Company School, circa 1870
A horse and carriage; and seven portraits of polo ponies, Lucknow
three inscribed 'MUMMOO PAINTER' (on the reverse) and further inscribed respectively 'Phaeton/with Rag and Famish/Lucknow 1878.'; 'Shaitan/1876./Polo pony. Lucknow.' (illustrated); 'Strawberry./Lucknow/1878.'; 'Necromancer./Waler gelding by Fisherman/Winner of Race-/6 yrs old. 1877[crossed out] 6-'; 'The Ghost/bought at M.../1878.'; 'Calico/1876 Lucknow'; 'Solomon./Lucknow=Naiui Tal=March to Moultan/1878.' (on old labels attached to the backboards)
pencil and watercolour, heightened with touches of bodycolour
5 x 8¼ in. (12.8 x 21 cm.); and smaller (8)

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拍品專文

By the 1870s the various schools of Lucknow, Patna and Calcutta painting had died out. It is probable that the artist of the present watercolours originally came from Calcutta and was familiar with the work of Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya. The artist will have accompanied an English patron on his travels to Lucknow to play polo. It is unusual to see company painting of this quality dated as late as the 1870s as most work of this period was derivative and less refined.