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Painting
Shiva Dayal Lal - Enlarge image
Painting
- Place of origin:
Patna (made)
- Date:
ca. 1850 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Shiva Dayal Lal (artist)
- Materials and Techniques:
Painted in opaque watercolour on paper
- Credit Line:
P. C. Manuk and Miss G. M. Coles Bequest through Art Fund
- Museum number:
IS.66-1949
- Gallery location:
In Storage
The pictures made by Indian artists for the British in India are called Company paintings. The artist Shiva Dayal Lal, who worked in Patna, created this one around 1850. He relied to a great extent on patronage from the local gentry, especially Rai Sultan Bahadur, for whom he made bird and flower paintings. His cousin, Shiva Lal, also ran an artist's shop in Patna, but his work tends to be less brightly coloured and precise in style.