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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:: 95278
Dattatreya
Date Around 1910
Medium Lithograph
TTD
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Painting ID:: 95279
Victory of Meghanada
Date 1905(1905)
Medium oil on canvas
TTD
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Painting ID:: 95280
Harischandra in Distress, having lost his kingdom and all the wealth parting with his only son in an auction
Date Unknown date
Medium oil on canvas
TTD
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Painting ID:: 95281
Swan messenger
Date Unknown date
Medium oil on canvas
TTD
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Painting ID:: 95282
Hamsa Damayanti
Date 1899(1899)
Medium oil on canvas
TTD
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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: | michele di matteo lambertini | Erskine Nicol | Michele Rocca | joseph michael gandy | Bernhard Folkestad |
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