An exhibition records how western artists depicted the Sikh community in the 19th and 20th centuries | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

An exhibition records how western artists depicted the Sikh community in the 19th and 20th centuries | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

Written by Vandana Kalra |Updated: April 17, 2019 9:05:12 am

An exhibition records how western artists depicted the Sikh community in the 19th and 20th centuries

It is part of the exhibition titled “Sikhs: An Occidental Romance” that features 80 replicas of 19th and 20th century paintings featuring members of the Sikh community by western artists.

Some of the archival replicas on display at the exhibition

The first king of the princely state of Jammu & Kashmir, created after the defeat of the Sikh Empire in the First Anglo-Sikh War in 1845-46, Maharaja Gulab Singh Jamwal was the founder of the Dogra dynasty. An ally of the British, he was painted fondly by Charles Harding, son of Viscount Harding, the-then Governor General of India. In the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum, an archival replica of the portrait has now travelled to Delhi.