Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.140

c12.140

The next three illustrations, Plates LXX.-I.-II., show how Indian artists in the early days of British rule, before schools of art were established to teach them what they knew far better themselves, were employed by their European masters, just as their ancestors had been employed in the Court of the Great Mogul. This occupation has been lost to them by the development of photographic science, and by the changed conditions of Anglo-Indian life, which give greater facilities for employing European portrait-painters, but have certainly not raised the standard of public taste. At the same time the spread of the popular belief in the [Figure: PORTRAIT OF AN ANGLO-INDIAN OF THE GEORGIAN PERIOD (*From a drawing by a native artist in the Calcutta Art Gallery*)]