Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.145

c12.145

¹ I am indebted to Mr. H. E. A. Cotton for the following note, which may help to establish the identity of the persons depicted: "In 1781 the Nawab Nazim, at the request of the Governor-General in Council, replaced all the principal native *forjdars*, *thannadars*, and other Nizamat officers by Europeans, but the names of these new arrivals are not given in Walsh's 'History of Moorshedabad.' Mr. E. O. Ives was collector at Moorshedabad (Berhampore) in 1784. From 1773 to 1779 one Martin was Resident at the Nazim's Court. In 1779 Sir John Hadley D'Oyley was appointed. Possibly the portraits of Sir John Macpherson and Stables, members of Hastings' Council, might be amongst them."