ATTRIBUTABLE TO SHAYKH AMIR MUHAMMAD OF KARRAYA OR HIS STUDIO, CALCUTTA, INDIA, CIRCA 1845-50

A set of similar paintings by Shaykh Amir Muhammad of Karraya, depicting household servants, is in the India Office Library. They are dated to 1845 (Mildred Archer, Company Paintings, Indian Paintings of the British Period, London, 1992, cat.80, pp.103-105). Another set by the same artist was made for Thomas Holroyd, a Calcutta business man and depict his carriage, horses, palanquins and servants as well as familiar Calcutta sights and scenes. See Mildred Archer, Company Drawings in the India Office Library, London, 1972, cat.59, pp.91-92.