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Foster 115
- Record Id:
- 032-003264623
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003264623
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100028181445.0x000430
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Foster 115
- Title:
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Richard Bourchier (d.1770). A half-length figure, in an oval, wearing a grey wig, brown coat and waistcoat. Second in Council at Bombay 1749, and Governor 1750-59.
- Scope & Content:
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Richard Bourchier (c.1700-1770), c.1760
A half-length figure, in an oval, wearing a grey wig, brown coat and waistcoat. He holds his hat under his left arm and the hand is tucked into the waistcoat. Brown background.
30 by 25 ins (76 by 63.5 cms)
Purchased July 1911
Richard Bourchier was in India from 1718 to 1760. After trading for some time in India as a ‘free merchant’, he was appointed in 1725 as Sixth in Council at Calcutta and on arrival became Export Warehouse Keeper. In 1732, however, when he had reached the rank of Second in Council, he and his colleagues were dismissed by the Company to mark the latter’s displeasure at the poor quality of the goods sent home. Bourchier remained in Calcutta and after a time was made Master Attendant there. In 1743 his friends in England procured his appointment as Chief of Anjengo, a settlement on the Malabar Coast. He was transferred six years later to Bombay as Second in Council and in the following year became Governor there. He held this post for over nine years and it was during his tenure of office that Clive and Watson captured Gheria from the Angria pirates. Bourchier returned to England in 1760 and died ten years later, it is said insolvent and penniless. Several of Bourchier’s sons went to India. Charles was Governor of Madras from 1767-70, while James was Member of Council there from 1765-69.
Literature: W. Foster, ‘Governor Richard Bourchier’, ‘Bengal past and present’, vol. 8, April-June 1914, 181-83. The name plate gives George Dance Junior (1741-1825) as the artist, but this seems unlikely.
- Collection Area:
- Visual Arts
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Oil Paintings
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003264623
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003264623
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 Item
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Not applicable
- Scripts:
- Not applicable
- Styles:
- British school
European school - Start Date:
- 1760
- End Date:
- 1770
- Date Range:
- 1760-1770
- Era:
- CE
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Medium: oil paint; canvas
- Finding Aids:
- Mildred Archer, The India Office collection of paintings and sculpture (London, 1986), 9-10
- Material Type:
- Prints, Drawings and Paintings
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bourchier, Richard, 1700-1770
- Subjects:
- Portraits