What was the purpose of East India Company to recruit the Indian artists? In 100-150 words
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As the British East India Company expanded its purview in South Asia during the late 1700s, great numbers of its employees moved from England to carve out new lives for themselves in India. As they traveled through the country and encountered unusual flora and fauna, stunning ancient monuments, and exotic new people, they wanted to capture these images to send or take home. Whereas the modern tourist would rely on his camera for such a task, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century travelers had to hire Indian painters to do the job. The works produced by these artists, undertaken in a European style and palette, are known collectively as “Company” paintings. They are characterized in medium by the use of watercolors (instead of gouache), and in technique by the appearance of linear perspective and shading. Aesthetically, they are the descendants of the picturesque scenes of India created by the likes of Thomas and William Daniell.
This style of painting arose in a number of different cities. Work from each region is distinguishable by style, which grew out of and was heavily influenced by earlier local traditions. Calcutta was among the important early production centers, as the site of one of the oldest British trade houses. The city’s most enthusiastic patrons were Lord Impey, chief justice of the High Court from 1777 to 1783, and the Marquess Wellesley, who served as governor-general from 1798 to 1805. Both had collected large menageries and hired artists to paint each of the birds and animals in them. A Company-established botanical garden in Calcutta then undertook a similar project for the samples of plant life it had collected. Other influential painting centers were in Varanasi, a major Hindu pilgrimage site that drew many tourists (who knew it as Benares), and Madras, where Lord and Lady Clive were stationed from 1798 to 1804. Delhi’s market expanded after the city’s occupation by the British in 1803. Its magnificent Mughal monuments were the most popular subjects, and its artists were unique in using ivory as a base for painting. Other common subjects from this time were the residences, servants, carriages, horses, and other possessions that Company employees had amassed; Lady Impey was the patron of a number of such scenes.
The purpose of the East India Company to recruit Indian artists:
- Company paintings are undertaken in European style and palette. With the advent of East India Company invasion in southeast India migration of many Europeans in order to carve out their life in India took place.
- As the company flourishes towards southeast Asia people started to migrate from the west to east. As the travelers started roaming around the country they were highly impressed by the unusual flora and flora monuments exotic tribes.
- They wanted to take pictures of the following to take them back to their native places. Therefore they started to hire Indian artists to make a painting of the same with the usage of watercolor and shading.
- Most of them were hired from the regions of Patna because it hosted many expatriates of the company as well as that of an important centre of the provincial committee.
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