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Raja Ravi Varma
1848-1906, Indian painter. He was the most important and one of the earliest Indian artists of the 19th century to work in oil paints. The subjects of his paintings were often mythological, but they were produced in a European historicist style. He absorbed the influence of such French 19th-century academic painters as William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Gustave Boulanger and of Indian contemporary popular theatre, specializing in the type of mythological paintings that found favour with Indian rajas and British administrators. His successful exploitation (from 1894) of the lithographic reproduction of his paintings ensured, for the first time in India, that the work of an individual artist could reach a mass market.
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Painting ID:: 39804
Goddess Lakshmi
mk153
Oil on canvas
73x52cm
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Painting ID:: 60660
The Lady in the picture is Mahaprabha Thampuratti of Mavelikara,
The Lady in the picture is Mahaprabha Thampuratti of Mavelikara, the artist's daughter and mother of HH Sethu Lakshmi Bayi
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Painting ID:: 60661
Shakuntala writes to Dushyanta.
Shakuntala writes to Dushyanta.
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Painting ID:: 60667
Asthasiddi
Asthasiddi
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Painting ID:: 60668
Lakshmi
Lakshmi
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Raja Ravi Varma
1848-1906, Indian painter. He was the most important and one of the earliest Indian artists of the 19th century to work in oil paints. The subjects of his paintings were often mythological, but they were produced in a European historicist style. He absorbed the influence of such French 19th-century academic painters as William-Adolphe Bouguereau and Gustave Boulanger and of Indian contemporary popular theatre, specializing in the type of mythological paintings that found favour with Indian rajas and British administrators. His successful exploitation (from 1894) of the lithographic reproduction of his paintings ensured, for the first time in India, that the work of an individual artist could reach a mass market.
. Related Artists to Raja Ravi Varma: | Ernest Quost | Meulener, Pieter | Richard Gerstl | Albertinelli, Mariotto | Henri Leys |
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