拍品專文
This portrait, as well as that of Ghazi al-Din haydar's son and successor Nasir al-Din Haydar (see lot 399) derives from versions painted by the Indian artist Muhammad Azam. His portrait of Ghazi al-Din, now in the collection of Drs. Aziz and Deanna Khan depicts the king in an almost identical pose than that visible in the present painting (India's Fabled City: The Art of Courtly Lucknow, exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles, 2010, p.36). Muhammad Azam's version of these official portraits owes much to the work of the English artist Robert Home who served as court painter in Lucknow between 1814 and 1837. Ghazi al-din haydar receiving tribute, one of Home's works painted circa 1820, is important for the depiction of the royal imagery which was copied and re-interpreted by painters such as Muhammad Azam and other Indian artists present at Lucknow (op cit. fig. 12, p. 95).