Robert Brownrigg
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General Sir Robert Brownrigg, 1st Baronet, GCB was a British Army officer and colonial administrator. He brought the last part of Sri Lanka under British rule.
Portrait by Thomas Lawrence, 1810
Statue of Tara
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The Statue of Tara is a gilt-bronze sculpture of Tara that dates from the 7th–8th century AD in Sri Lanka. Some argue it was looted from the last King of Kandy when the British annexed Kandy in the ea
Robert Brownrigg
…He attained the rank of full General in 1819 and left Ceylon the following year. The gilded bronze ancient Statue of Tara was reputedly found on the eastern coast of Sri Lanka. It was acquired by Brownrigg, who later donated it to the British Museum when he was living near…
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