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Company style, also known as Company painting, is a hybrid Indo-European style of paintings made in British India by Indian artists, many of whom worked for European patrons in the East India Company
Group of Courtesans, Sikh Empire 1800–1825, 26 cm × 31.2 cm (10.2 in × 12.3 in) opaque watercolour and gold on paper
Khan Bahadur Khan with Men of his Clan, c. 1815, from the Fraser Album
Great Indian Fruit Bat (Pteropus giganteus), Bhawani Das or follower, 1777–82, from Mary Impey's album of natural history paintings
A Green-Winged Macaw, folio from Mary Impey's album of natural history paintings, Attributed by inscription to Shaikh Zain al-Din, Calcutta, about 1780
William Dalrymple
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William Benedict Hamilton-Dalrymple is a Scottish historian, art historian, indologist, curator, broadcaster, critic and author.
Company style
…Archer, Mildred. Company Paintings: Indian Paintings of the British Period. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1992. ISBN 0944142303. Dalrymple, William, Forgotten Masters: Indian Painting for the East India Company, 2019, Philip Wilson Publishers Ltd, ISBN 978-1781301012 Falk, Toby. (1988). The Fraser…
Dalrymple (left) with Esther Freud (centre) and Hanan Ashrawi at PalFest 2008.