Portrait Miniature of an Indian Courtesan

1830-1850

7.8 cm 11.4 cm

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English artists visited India to paint both large-scale and miniature portraits of those serving abroad as mementos for friends and families back in the Mother Country. They introduced the European technique of painting in watercolors on ivory to the local artists. In this ins...

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A.J. Fink, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; A. Jay Fink Foundation, Inc., Baltimore, 1963, by bequest; Walters Art Museum, 1963, by gift.
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