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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:: 95108
Lady with Swarbat
Date 1874(1874)
Medium oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 95109
Malabar Lady
Date Not known
Medium oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 95110
There Comes Papa
Date 1893.(1893.)
Medium oil on canvas.
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Painting ID:: 95111
In Contemplation
Date Unknown date
Medium oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 95112
Woman with Veena
Date Unknown date
Medium oil on canvas
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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: | Giovanni Stanchi | Vladimir Makovsky | Giovanni Camillo Sagrestani | Anna Peters | Joshua Johnson |
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