Daulat Rao of Mandhata
1851
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
1851
paint
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Daulat Rao of Mandhata is a 1851 paint by William Carpenter, a Impressionism work, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This painting shows Daulat Rao of Mandhata by British artist William Carpenter. Made in March 1851, it’s an oil portrait from his time in India. Carpenter arrived in Bombay in 1850 and traveled widely, painting local rulers in their own settings. He often dressed in Indian clothes and sketched across the region. Check out more works by William Carpenter at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
William Carpenter painted a portrait of Daulat Rao of Mandhata seated while smoking a huqqa. The subject held the hereditary role of temple custodian in Mandhata, located in the Nimar District of the Central Provinces. The work was likely created within the subject’s palace. The portrait was acquired by the museum in 1881 from Carpenter for £500.
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William Carpenter (1818–1899) was an English watercolour artist. He travelled for six or seven years in the 1850s painting scenes of India, its people and its life. The Victoria and Albert Museum bought over 280 of his…
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