James Atkinson was a surgeon, artist and Persian scholar — "a Renaissance man among Anglo-Indians".
Self-portrait ca. 1845, National Portrait Gallery, London
Miniature portrait of the young James Atkinson
Suttee, a painting by James Atkinson 1831
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Horace Hayman Wilson was an English orientalist who was elected the first Boden Professor of Sanskrit at Oxford University.
James Atkinson (Persian scholar)
…Calcutta in 1812 where he was appointed Assistant to the Assay Master at the Calcutta Mint (appointed Deputy Assay Master in 1818). The Assay Master was Horace Hayman Wilson, orientalist and Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, who published the first Sanskrit to English dictionary in 1819. For most of 1820 while…
Horace Hayman Wilson
Watercolour by James Atkinson, 1821