Bamapada Banerjee, a nineteenth-century painter from West Bengal, India, was well known for painting scenes from Hindu mythology, much like Raja Ravi Varma and M. V. Dhurandhar from other parts of India. Banerjee’s popularity rose when his oil paintings were reproduced as lithographs and oleographs. He also painted numerous portraits of Indian royals and European officials, like this untitled likeness of an unknown man dressed in European clothes. Banerjee captures the subject’s facial features—with deep-set eyes, a slightly crooked nose, and a large forehead—without adding any glamorous embellishments to the portrait.
Bamapada Banerjee
Untitled
1903
Oil on canvas
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Bamapada Banerjee
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1903
Oil on canvas
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