{"product_id":"indian-company-school-cotton-winders-original-c-1814-watercolour-painting-ke-055","title":"Indian Company School, Cotton Winders – c.1814 watercolour painting","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn original c.1814 watercolour painting – Indian Company School, Cotton Winders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA vivid Indian Company painting of the Patna School showing two seated male cotton winders plying their craft.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is one of a group of three Company School Trades \u0026amp; Occupations paintings, which were in the possession of a clerk of the East India Company named E.M. Andrews in 1816.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis painting is a fine example of an Indian Company painting, produced for Western (especially British) patrons in India in the 19th century, many of whom were working for the East India Company. It displays the striking hybrid techniques which led to the categorisation of the ‘Company’ style as a School. While incorporating traditional elements from Rajput and Mughal painting, they were given a more 'western' appearance through their use of perspective and rounded modelling, as opposed to the more decorative, 'flatter' styles that had gone before.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn watercolour with touches of opaque pigment on cream laid paper, watermarked with the East India Company bale mark (VEIC, United East India Company, within a heart shape) and date 1814.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Somerset \u0026 Wood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55549108388169,"sku":"KE-055","price":577.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0930\/4306\/5161\/files\/KE-055.jpg?v=1791459733","url":"https:\/\/somersetandwood.com\/fr-eu\/products\/indian-company-school-cotton-winders-original-c-1814-watercolour-painting-ke-055","provider":"Somerset \u0026 Wood Fine Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}