Maharaja Serfoji II accompanied by his Minister ca. 1800 India, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu This painted portrait of Maharaja Serfoji II (Sarabhoji’) (r. 1798-1832) of Thanjavur, South India, is a very rare grand-scaled picture in the late Thanjavur School style. The maharaja is rendered as youthful man in his mid-to-late twenties, sporting a handsome moustache. He is depicted standing in a formal interior treated in the manner of later eighteenth-century European portraiture, gazing directly at the viewer in a manner not traditionally encountered in Indian portraiture. The setting draws directly on European conventions, with heavy drapery with gold trim and tassels drawn back theatrically to frame the subject. Gilded side-tables, one displaying a rosewater bottle and the other a mantle clock, serve as the subject’s identifiers and evoke the quixotic world that Serfoji occupied: an Indian prince educated in English cultural mores by a Danish missionary tutor, governing his people under the

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Maharaja Serfoji II accompanied by his Minister ca. 1800 India, Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu This painted portrait of Maharaja Serfoji II (Sarabhoji’) (r. 1798-1832) of Thanjavur, South India, is a very rare grand-scaled picture in the late Thanjavur School style. The maharaja is rendered as youthful man in his mid-to-late twenties, sporting a handsome moustache. He is depicted standing in a formal interior treated in the manner of later eighteenth-century European portraiture, gazing directly at the viewer in a manner not traditionally encountered in Indian portraiture. The setting draws directly on European conventions, with heavy drapery with gold trim and tassels drawn back theatrically to frame the subject. Gilded side-tables, one displaying a rosewater bottle and the other a mantle clock, serve as the subject’s identifiers and evoke the quixotic world that Serfoji occupied: an Indian prince educated in English cultural mores by a Danish missionary tutor, governing his people under the

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