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Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company

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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.
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The book accompanying the exhibition is far more than just a catalogue....this [is] the best and most handsome book on the subject currently available. --Peter Parker, Literary Review

He does a sensitive, subtle job of reframing the argument by focusing attention back on the artists, who fashioned a captivating hybrid style that drew on European and Mughal models. --Alastair Sooke, The Daily Telegraph

About the Author

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.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful .

L.A. · 19 March 2024

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great catalogue not a great show

S.C. · 9 November 2020

I loved the exhibition organised by William Dalrymple at the Wallage Gallery and this catalogue of the show is one to keep and enjoy for many year to come. I gave the book to a friend who also admires the skill and beauty of these Indian painters and he loved it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Next best thing to going to Wallace Collection London

M.L. · 2 March 2020

Being interested in India I was disappointed to find the Exhibition at Wallace Collection London was finishing before I could visit it so …… as I often do I bought the catalogue, being F.M:I.P.for the E.I.Co.Very glad I did. It arrived quickly without any delay and I am still enjoying the illustrations and narrative.

5.0 out of 5 stars A thing of beauty

G. · 30 July 2020

Fascinating and magical book

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent must buy for those interested in colonial history

S. · 26 April 2021

One of the best books i have ever bought, in love with it

5.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful book

M. · 11 November 2021

Brilliant illustrations, beautifully produced. Superb.

Indian painting for Europeans

D.E.H. · 5 September 2023

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p.w. · 16 July 2021

It is well written and illustrated William dalrymple is a great author

O encontro de culturas.

M.T.P. · 24 November 2020

Excelente introdução à arte decorrente do encontro de culturas ocidental e indiana. Impressionante, ver obras de artistas excepcionais como desconhecidos pelo ocidente. Como vislumbrar o lado oculto da lua pela primeira vez.

Beautiful art

t.d. · 12 January 2025

Present for a friend. He loves it

Hold the past in your hands...

A.M. · 6 December 2019

This book is a masterpiece, I just loved it! Lots of paintings dating back from East India Company's time. The paintings are elaborated and explained very well by the authors! It is not just a kind of catalogue but a hand held device for these magnificent and veiled paintings which could be deciphered by the same. William Dalrymple and other authors has worked really well in this. Hope you will enjoy!Thanks for reading :)Have an awesome day!

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