Name: IMPRESSIVE PORTRAIT OF MARY THE PRINCESS OF WALES WITH THE YOUNG MAHARAJA KISHAN SINGH OF BHARATPUR
Brand: ATTRIBUTABLE TO PARSI SAH PHOTO-ARTIST OF NAINI TAL, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1905
Price: 6000.00 GBP
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AN IMPRESSIVE PORTRAIT OF MARY THE PRINCESS OF WALES WITH THE YOUNG MAHARAJA KISHAN SINGH OF BHARATPUR
ATTRIBUTABLE TO PARSI SAH PHOTO-ARTIST OF NAINI TAL, NORTH INDIA, CIRCA 1905
Oil on canvas, full length, Mary, the Princess of Wales and future Queen Mary holds the hand of the young Maharaja, a column in the background, framed
84⅝ x 51⅛in. (215 x 130cm.); 87¼ x 54½in. (221.7 x 138.5cm.) framed

Provenance:
Bonhams London, 8 October 2008, lot 426.

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Our painting together with a further portrait of Kishan Singh with his tutor was probably produced following the Royal Tour of 1905-06. On the companion portrait which sold at Christie's, London, 9 October 2014, lot 187, the imposing military figure identified as Kishan Singh's tutor is probably the British Political Agent Major W. Stratton ICS. The administration of the Bharatpur state was under the control of the Political agent to the Eastern States of Rajputana - who was Major Stratton during the minority of Kishan Singh. The artist Parsi Sah was recorded as a resident of Nainital in 1903 and 1904, but little more is known about him.