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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:: 60683
Ravi Varma Shakuntala, a character in the epic Mahabharata
Ravi Varma's Shakuntala, a character in the epic Mahabharata
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Painting ID:: 60684
Shakuntala despondent
Shakuntala despondent
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Painting ID:: 73670
Harischandra and Tharamathi
Harishchandra in cremation ground where Tharamathi comes with their dead son.
Oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 73682
Dissapointing News
A lady looking sad after reading dissapointing news in letter.
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Painting ID:: 73683
The suckling child
Mother feeding her child
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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: | RICCI, Marco | Jessie Marion King | Merian, Matthaus the Younger | Jean-Baptiste Jouvenet | Daniel Chodowiecki |
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