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A SEATED PORTRAIT OF RAM CHANDRA LAHIRI, DEWAN OF COOCH BEHAR (1829 - 1842)
BENGAL SCHOOL, CIRCA 1840
Opaque pigments heightened with gold on paper, holding a hookah pipe in his left hand, identification inscription in black devanagari script above 'ram chandra lahiri cooch behar ka wazir', within polychrome floral margins and wide yellow border, mounted
The painting 7⅛ X 5¼in. (17.9 x 13.1cm.); the folio 9⅛ x 6⅞in. (23.2 x 17.5cm.)

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Christie's, London, 7 April 2011, lot 284

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Ram Chandra Lahiri served as Chief Minister (1829-42) to Maharaja Harendra Narayan and subsequently his son, Maharaja Shivendra Narayan, of the erstwhile princely state of Cooch Behar, now part of West Bengal in India.

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