Portrait Painting
Portrait Painting
Portrait Painting : Portraits became one of the most popular art styles in the ruling circle.Both Indian and British wanted to see themselves on the canvas. Colonial portraits were bigger in size and used to appear real size of portraits depicted the power and status of their patrons.
Portraits of Authority: Another tradition of art that became immensely popular in colonial India was portrait painting. The rich and the powerful, both British and Indian, wanted to see themselves on canvas. Unlike the existing Indian tradition of painting portraits in miniature, colonial portraits were life-size images that looked lifelike and real. The size of the paintings itself projected the importance of the patrons who commissioned these portraits. This new style of portraiture also served as an ideal means of displaying the lavish lifestyles, wealth and status that the empire generated.
A portrait painting became popular, many European portrait painters came to India in search of profitable commissions. One of the most famous of the visiting European painters was Johann Zofanny. He was born in Germany, migrated to England and came to India in the mid-1780s for five years. The Indian servants and the sprawling lawns of colonial mansion appear in such portraits. The Indians are shown as submissive , as inferior, as serving their white masters, while the British are shown as superior and imperious they flaunt their clothes , stand regally or sit arrogantly , and live a life of luxury . Indians are never at the center of such paintings; they usually occupy a shadowy background.
Many of the Indian nawabs too began commissioning imposing oil portraits by European painters. Later on the British posted residents in Indian courts and began controlling the affairs of the state, under- mining the power of the king. Some of these nawabs reacted against this interference; others accepted the political and cultural superiority of the British. They hoped to socialize with the British, and adopt styles and tastes. Muhammad Ali Khan was one such nawab. After a war with the British in the 1770s he became a dependant pensioner of the East India company. But he nonetheless commissioned two visiting European artists. Tilly Kettle and George Willison, to paint his portraits, and gifted these paintings to the king of England and the directors of the east India company. The nawab had lost political power, but the portraits allowed him to look at himself as a royal figure.
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