Eden Upton Eddis (1812-1901)

Portrait of Sambhunath Pandit (1820-1867), Judge of the High Court, Calcutta, bust-length, wearing judges' robes

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Eden Upton Eddis (1812-1901)
Portrait of Sambhunath Pandit (1820-1867), Judge of the High Court, Calcutta, bust-length, wearing judges' robes
inscribed 'Babor/Sumbonath Pundit/late Judge of High Court Calcutta' (lower left)
coloured chalks, on buff paper, squared for transfer
29½ x 21¼ in. (75 x 54 in.)

拍場告示

The artist's name for this lot is Eden Upton Eddis rather than Ellis as stated in the catalogue

拍品專文

Sambhunath Pandit was the first Indian Judge of the High Court, Calcutta, holding the post from 1863 until his death in 1867. An authority on Hindu law and questions of land tenure, he was a Kashmir Brahman, whose family had been established in Bengal for several generations. Educated at Lucknow, Benares and the Oriental Seminary, he became a senior law professor at the Presidency College in 1855 and a senior Government Pleader in 1861.