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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
Colonel James Skinner was an Anglo-Indian military adventurer and soldier of the East India Company of British India. Prior to this, his mixed ethnicity prevented him from becoming a confirmed officer
James Skinner, from his Tazkirat al-Umara (Account of the Nobles of Delhi and its neighbourhood)
Colonel James Skinner, copy of a portrait of 1836
Skinner's Horse party. Folio from "Reminiscences of Imperial Delhi", an album by Sir Thomas Metcalfe, 1843.
A folio of Tazkirat al-umara by James Skinner, 1830, depicting Portrait of Maharaja Ranjit Singh of the Punjab.