Guest-curated by renowned writer and historian William Dalrymple, Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company is the first UK exhibition of works by Indian master painters that were originally commissioned by officials from the East India Company in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The exhibition represents an unprecedented opportunity to see these vivid and original paintings together for the first time. Nissen Richards Studio undertook both the exhibition and the graphic design for the show, along with the script-editing.
The artists behind the stunning natural studies of flora and fauna in Forgotten Masters were not credited at the time of commission and the exhibition restores proper authorship in almost all cases. Artists whose works are on show include Shaikh Zain ud-Din, Bhawani Das, Shaikh Mohammad Amir of Karriah, Sita Ram and Ghulam Ali Khan.
An important aspect of Nissen Richards Studio’s interpretive approach was the way in which the works are introduced to visitors ensuring that, for the first time, the artists come first, with artist portraits featuring in the very first vista of the exhibition.
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