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MAKE A MEME View Large Image Portrait of Begam Samru.jpg en This Company painting is by Jiwan Das of Delhi and is a portrait of Begam Samru a remarkable Kashmiri woman who started out as a dancing-girl She originally married the adventurer Walter Reinhardt who sailed ...

Portrait of Begam Samru.jpg en This Company painting is by Jiwan Das of Delhi and is a portrait of Begam Samru a remarkable Kashmiri woman who started out as a dancing-girl She originally married the adventurer Walter Reinhardt who sailed ...

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Keywords: Portrait of Begam Samru.jpg en This Company painting is by Jiwan Das of Delhi and is a portrait of Begam Samru a remarkable Kashmiri woman who started out as a dancing-girl She originally married the adventurer Walter Reinhardt who sailed to India in 1745 jumped ship and enlisted with the French He was later recruited by the Mughal Governor in Bengal He led an army which defeated the Honourable East India Company �s army and was ultimately given the fiefdom of Sardhana Following his death Begam Samru inherited his army of six well-trained and disciplined infantry battalions and she even led her troops into battle in person She became extremely rich and in her old age she converted to Christianity and built a fine church at Sardhana This portrait dates from about 1830 when she was nearly 80 'Company paintings' were produced by Indian artists for Europeans living and working in the Indian subcontinent especially British employees of the East India Company They represent a fusion of traditional Indian artistic styles with conventions and technical features borrowed from western art Some Company paintings were specially commissioned while others were virtually mass-produced and could be purchased in bazaars hi दिल्ल� के कलाकार � � वन दास द्वारा 1830 में बनाया गया बेग़म समरू का चित्र। चित्र बनाते समय बेग़म समरू लगभग अस्स� साल क� थ� ं। circa 1830 painted http //collections vam ac uk/item/O16833/painting-portrait-of-begam-samru/ Jiwan Ram maker PD-Art Uploaded with UploadWizard Begum Samru Company style Paintings of India in the Victoria and Albert Museum Paintings of women of India 1830s paintings from India Jiwan Ram