# Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company - Hardcover

by **William Dalrymple** (Author)

As the East India Company extended its sway across India in the late eighteenth century, many remarkable artworks were commissioned by Company officials from Indian painters who had previously worked for the Mughals. Published to coincide with the first UK exhibition of these masterworks at The Wallace Collection, this book celebrates the work of a series of extraordinary Indian artists, each with their own style and tastes and agency, all of whom worked for British patrons between the 1770s and the bloody end of the Mughal rule in 1857.

Edited by writer and historian William Dalrymple, these hybrid paintings explore both the beauty of the Indian natural world and the social realities of the time in one hundred masterpieces, often of astonishing brilliance and originality. They shed light on a forgotten moment in Anglo-Indian history during which Indian artists responded to European influences while keeping intact their own artistic visions and styles. These artists represent the last phase of Indian artistic genius before the onset of the twin assaults - photography and the influence of western colonial art schools - ended an unbroken tradition of painting going back two thousand years. As these masterworks show, the greatest of these painters deserve to be remembered as among the most remarkable Indian artists of all time.

### Author Biography

**William Dalrymple** is guest curator of the exhibition _Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company_ at the Wallace Collection. Dalrymple is one of Britain's great historians and the bestselling author of the Wolfson Prize-winning _White Mughals, The Last Mughal_, which won the Duff Cooper Prize, and the Hemingway and Kapuscinski Prize-winning _Return of a King_. In 2013 he co-curated the exhibition, _Princes and Painters in Late Mughal Delhi 1739-1857,_ with Yuthika Sharma at the Asia Society in New York. In 2018, he was presented with the President's Medal by The British Academy for his outstanding literary achievement and for co-founding the Jaipur Literature Festival. William lives with his wife and three children on a farm outside Delhi.

**Number of Pages:** 192

**Dimensions:** 0.9 x 11.3 x 9.7 IN

**Publication Date:** January 28, 2020

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