Add Or 4145-4149, F792

GANGARAM CINTAMANI TAMBAT (fl. 1790-95)

A Maratha artist in the emply of the Peshwa at Poona, who also worked extensively for the British Resident at the Peshwa's court Sir Charles Warre Malet. Gangaram was employed especially to make drawings of the animals in the Peshwa's menagerie and in Malet's own at his large the Residency at the Sangam, and he also made a series of wax models of some of the animals.

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Add.Or.4145-4149; Add.Or.4364; F792

Portrait and animal drawings from an album; and a model of one of the animals. c.1790.

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Add.Or.4145-4149

Four animals and a portrait.

Water-colour on paper; various sizes.

Provenance Malet family by descent. Purchased 1982

Note: From an album done for Sir Charles Warre Malet, Resident at the Maratha court at Poona 1786-97. Malet lived in great style at his house near the junction of the Mula and Mootha rivers at Poona, maintaining gardens, orchards and a menagerie, as well as employing artists such as James Wales and Robert Mabon (see M. Archer, ‘India and British Portraiture 1770-1825,’ London, 1979, 333-55).