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Shortly after Edward Lear had returned from India, and at the end of Vasily Vereshchagin’s visit, the prolific traveller and botanical artist Marianne North (1830–1890) visited in 1877-79, as she was returning from a trip to south-east Asia and the Indonesian Archipelago.

When North visited India, she stayed for a while in the west coastal resort of Beypore, India (c 1877-79), in the state of Kerala. She rented a large room over the railway station, just a hundred yards from the water of the Indian Ocean. It appears idyllic.

In the north-west, she visited the city of Chittaurgarh in Rajasthan, where she painted Water Palace – Chitore. India in December 1878. This city is centred on its major fort, which dates back to the seventh century CE, and has two major palaces, Rana Kumbha’s and Rani Padmini’s, the latter being shown here. Padmini was a legendary queen of the 13th to 14th centuries.

North’s breathtaking mountain view From Nahl Dehra near Simla (Shimla), Himachal Pradesh, India (1878) shows the rugged hills near the capital city of Himachal Pradesh, in the Western Himalaya. From 1864, that city was the summer capital of British India because of its far more equitable climate.

Mount Everest or Deodunga from Sundukpho, North India (c 1878) is another impressive view of the Himalaya. Deodunga has been used by several of the British in India as the name of the world’s highest mountain before it was renamed.

Valentine Cameron Prinsep (1838–1904) was born in Kolkata (then Calcutta), India, to a British colonial family. One of his aunts was Julia Margaret Cameron, the pioneer photographer who lived near Alfred, Lord Tennyson’s home on the Isle of Wight. Another was the grandmother of Virginia Woolf, the novelist, and Vanessa Bell, the Bloomsbury painter. The family home back in England was Little Holland House, the dower house to Holland House, in Kensington, London, and the focal point of a lively artistic social group.

In 1876 or 1877, Prinsep returned to India to research what was to become a huge painting of the Delhi Durbar, completed in 1880. The Durbar of 1877 was an official event marking the proclamation of Queen Victoria as Empress of India, although she didn’t attend in person, but was represented by her Viceroy. Unfortunately it coincided with the Great Famine, and came to mark the beginning of the campaign for a free India.

Among the other paintings he completed during that visit is Martaba, a Kashmiree Nautch Girl (c 1878), exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1878. Queen Victoria and her court had a particular fondness for portraits of ‘loyal subjects’ of the empire, and many are still on show at her former palace of Osborne House on the Isle of Wight, where she died.

Prinsep’s View of the Lal Darwaza on the Matwa Road, between the Purana Qila and Old City, Delhi around 1878, is a remarkably loose oil sketch, probably completed en plein air.

He eventually presented his huge painting of the Delhi Durbar to Queen Victoria, and it was hung in Buckingham Palace.

In 1913, the year before the start of the First World War, the American painter of skyscrapers Colin Campbell Cooper (1856–1937) and his artist wife Emma Lampert Cooper (1855–1920) travelled to India, apparently on a commission for an affluent woman patron in the USA. They visited, and painted in, what are now India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.

Taj Mahal, Afternoon (c 1913) is probably his best-known painting resulting from that trip, and on their return it was exhibited in Rochester, NY, in 1915. Shown here in warm low-angle light, Cooper deftly avoided the more usual perfectly symmetric view.

The last of my visitors also stayed the longest of them all. The Russian-American artist Nicholas Roerich (1874–1947) first took his family to Darjeeling in 1923 to start exploring the Himalaya. He met members of the 1924 British Everest Expedition there, before returning to the US later that year.

His first proper expedition to the Himalaya left New York in 1925 for Sikkim and Asia. Over the next 4-5 years, he, his family and six friends travelled through Punjab, Sikkim, the Karakoram Mountains, the Altai Mountains, Mongolia and Tibet. Their official mission was to act as the embassy of Western Buddhism to Tibet, but they also had scientific and artistic purposes. For a year, between 1927-28, the expedition was believed to have been lost, after it had been attacked in Tibet and detained there by the local government. They were confined for months in extreme conditions and with minimal rations, during which five members of his team died.

Himalayas, Sikkim (c 1928-29) appears to be a ‘tempera’ sketch made on canvas in the Himalaya. This is now an Indian state bordering on Tibet and Nepal, and includes Kangchenjunga.

Roerich painted several series using mountain scenes which he may have derived from the many views he sketched during his expeditions. Arjuna, from his Kulu series, was painted in 1929-30, and shows the main protagonist from the Sanskrit epic Mahabharata with a bolt of lightning among Himalayan peaks.

Mount of Five Treasures (Two Worlds), from his Holy Mountains series, was painted in 1933, and probably shows Kanchenjunga again.

Roerich painted this superb view of the distant mountain Kanchenjunga in 1944, when he was living in India. This view may have been painted in Darjeeling, and shows the mountain in the rich light of dusk.

Roerich died in Kullu, Himachal Pradesh, India, in 1947.

Of course the Indian sub-continent has a long and rich painting tradition of its own. To end with, here are two classical works to enjoy.

This is a miniature from the Hamzanama Manuscript dated to about 1567-72, and shows The Prophet Ilyas Rescues a Prince.

This watercolour by Farrukh Beg shows Ibrahim Adil Shah Hawking, and was painted in about 1590-95.

Trade between Europe and India had been established by the time of the Roman Empire, but it wasn’t until European trading companies, including the English East India Company, established outposts on the Indian coast in the early eighteenth century that many Europeans visited the sub-continent. Colonisation by Britain developed from the 1820s until the East India Company was disbanded in favour of direct colonial administration in 1858. From then until independence was achieved in 1947, a succession of predominantly British painters visited. This weekend I show a small selection of their work.

In 1778, William Hodges (1744–1797) travelled to India, where he painted under the patronage of the British statesman Warren Hastings. He stayed in the country for six years, visiting many locations ideal for landscape views. A selection were engraved for his book about his travels in India, published in 1793.

The Marmalong Bridge, with a Sepoy and Natives in the Foreground (c 1783) shows the oldest bridge across the Adyar River in Chennai (formerly Madras), Tamil Nadu, now known as the Maraimalai Adigal Bridge. This was originally constructed by an Armenian merchant in 1728, and wasn’t replaced until 1966.

Several years after his return to Britain, in about 1788, Hodges painted this curious view of the world-famous white marble mausoleum, The Taj Mahal. I suspect this image is slightly on the incline, and the artist set its horizontals more level. But most views of the Taj Mahal show its impressive formal garden; Hodges instead painted it from the opposite bank of the River Yamuna. The mausoleum had only been completed just over a century earlier, in 1648.

Hodges painted this Storm on the Ganges, with Mrs. Hastings near the Col-gon Rocks in about 1790. The Mrs. Hastings of the title was his patron’s wife. She was formerly Mary Buchanan, the widow of one of the victims of the ‘Black Hole of Calcutta’ incident in 1756.

In 1872, the intrepid natural history painter Edward Lear (1812–1888) set off for India, but only got as far as Suez, where the canal had only been officially opened three years previously. He eventually undertook his tour of India and Sri Lanka in 1873-75, after which he returned to Britain. Although now known almost exclusively for his ‘nonsense’ poetry, Lear was an outstanding artist who survived a troubled childhood and overcame the combination of grand mal epilepsy, asthma, bronchitis, bouts of depression and failing eyesight.

This View of Gwalior, India is allegedly dated 1840, although Lear did not visit India until 1873. It is also painted in oils, which in any case makes it later than about 1852. Gwalior is a major city in northern central India, about 200 miles to the south of Delhi, with a particularly rich range of historic buildings, seen to the left of the large plateau.

Lear’s watercolour of Benares (1873) shows another city in northern central India, to the east of Gwalior, on the banks of the River Ganges. Now better known as Varanasi, it is a religious centre, being the holiest of seven sacred cities of the Hindu and Jain faiths, and an important location in the history of Buddhism as well.

Although undated, I suspect that Lear’s watercolour of Coolies on the Road near Kalicut, Malabar was painted at around this time. Calicut or Kozhikode is a city in the state of Kerala, on the Malibar coast of south-west India, nearly two hundred miles to the west of Bangalore. The city is a major trade centre for locally-produced commodities like pepper, coconut, coffee, and rubber, and the labourers shown here were probably engaged in the production and transport of those products.

My final selection from Lear’s extensive landscape paintings is among his most spectacular, showing the great mountain Kangchenjunga from Darjeeling (1879).

Darjeeling is high in the Lesser Himalaya, at an elevation of just over two thousand metres (over 6,500 feet), in the far north of West Bengal. Famed for its tea plantations, it became a ‘hill station’ for British residents of India in the early nineteenth century, and just a couple of years after Lear painted this view, it was connected by the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway to New Jalpaiguri.

Kangchenjunga is now, and was then, ranked the third highest mountain in the world, with an elevation of 8,586 metres (28,169 feet). Its first successful ascent wasn’t made until 1955; because it is a sacred mountain, teams who attain the summit stop short to avoid its violation. The Kangchenjunga massif is best viewed from Darjeeling, which is about eighty miles away. Kangchenjunga itself is the obviously highest peak, to the left of the centre of the ice-covered massif seen here.

Vasily Vasilyevich Vereshchagin (1842–1904) was another seasoned traveller who was also an accomplished war artist for the Russian Empire. In late 1874 he started an extensive tour of the Himalaya and the Indian sub-continent.

Rajnagar. Marble Embankment Decorated with Bas-Reliefs on a Lake in Udaipur (1874) shows one of the palaces in Udaipur, in Rajasthan. This city is surrounded by seven lakes, several of which have palaces on the shore.

Taj Mahal Mausoleum, Agra (1874-76) is another view of this white marble mausoleum in the city of Agra, built to house the tomb of the Mughal emperor’s favourite wife, Mumtaz Mahal, between 1632-1653. It’s probably the most painted and photographed building in the whole of the sub-continent.

Vereshchagin returned to Europe in late 1876, where he turned some of his studies into more substantial finished paintings.

Many of his travel paintings are surprisingly small, either completed in front of the motif or in an improvised local studio. This huge painting of the Pearl Mosque, Delhi must have been made entirely in his studio in Paris in 1876-79. The Moti Masjid is built from white marble, and is inside the Red Fort complex in Delhi. It was constructed by the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb for his second wife and the ladies of the household, in 1659-60.

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