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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:: 95113
Sir T. Madhava Rao
Date Unknown date
Medium oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 95264
Mrs. Ramanadha Rao
Date Unknown date
Medium oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 95265
Ladies in the Moonlight
Date Unknown date
Medium oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 95266
Lady Giving Alms
Date Unknown date
Medium oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 95267
The Maharashtrian Lady
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: | Armand guillaumin | Alessandro Allori | Lemmen, Georges | Gian Emilio Malerba | Archibald M Willard |
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