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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:: 95273
Maharana Prathap Singh
Date Unknown date
Medium oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 95274
Ganesha with ashta siddhi
Date Unknown date
Medium oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 95275
Goddess Saraswathi
Date 1896(1896)
Medium oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 95276
Goddess Lakshmi
Date 1896(1896)
Medium oil on canvas
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Painting ID:: 95277
Dhruv Narayan
Date Unknown date
Medium Lithograph
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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: | Johann Peter Hasenclever | louis daguerre | Willem Cornelisz. Duyster | WERFF, Pieter van der | Baron Pierre Narcisse Guerin |
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