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watercolour on ivory, in a glazed ebonised frame (Dimensions: 10 x 8 cm)

(10 x 8 cm)

Footnote: Provenance: Private collection Exhibited: "Of Far Off Lands and People - Paintings from India, Summer 1993", Indar Pasricha Fine Arts London The handwritten labels to the reverse state that the sitter of this portrait is John Byng, 1st Earl of Strafford. Research, however, suggests that due to the uniform depicted this is more likely to be Lieuenant-Colonel John Byng (1803-1865), the nephew of Lord Torrington, who served in the 6th Madras Light Cavalry. The uniform depicted appears to depict one of the East India Company's light cavalry regiments of the early 19th Century. Raja Jivan Ram adopted a European style, due to demand from British expatriates as well as Indian nobles. It is thought that he was influenced by artists such as George Chinnery and Thomas Hickey. As well as portrait miniatures, he painted larger oils on canvas, and his work can be found in the British Museum and the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Condition report: A little discolouration around the edges and a little fading to the background.

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