After decades collecting artworks from colonial-era India, British historian Charles Greig has donated 50 paintings and watercolours to Tate, including rare 18th-century portraits; a public display is planned for 2028
- Johann Zoffany's 'Portrait of Prince Jawan Bakht' (Image credit: tate.org.uk)A painting is never merely a record of truth, but a subject of representation and reimagination.
- And artworks specially prepared while recording the British colonial period in India are not merely art, but a glimpse into an India that exists today only in a few inches of frame.
- This is particularly true of artworks created in India during the 18th and 19th centuries, when British colonial expansion was changing the political and cultural landscape of the subcontinent.
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- Johann Zoffany's 'Portrait of Prince Jawan Bakht' (Image credit: tate.org.uk)A painting is never merely a record of truth, but a subject of representation and reimagination.
- And artworks specially prepared while recording the British colonial period in India are not merely art, but a glimpse into an India that exists today only in a few inches of frame.
- This is particularly true of artworks created in India during the 18th and 19th centuries, when British colonial expansion was changing the political and cultural landscape of the subcontinent.
Sources: Times of India