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Robert Horne
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Robert Horne
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Robert Home. It is one of Home’s most ambitious and successful works, and is thus one of the most important paintings made in the Raj in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Home’s sitter books record that Fairlie paid the high sum of 3000 rupees. Fairlie is shown with his wife Margaret and their three eldest children William, John, and Agnes Maria. In 1814 Robert Home (who was now in his sixties) left Calcutta for Lucknow, and became court painter to the Nawab (later King) Ghazi-ud-din Haidar of Oudh. Here he was employed not only in portraiture but in designing furniture, regalia and howdahs. He received an annual salary of £2,000. When the King died in 1827 Home retired with his married daughter to a ‘handsome establishment’ at Cawnpore (Kanpur), where he died at the age of 82, having spent most of his long life in India. Der Verlag nutzt sein Gemälde William Fairlie, his wife Margaret and their Three Children, Robert Horne, February 1802, painted in Calcutta zur Covergestaltung des Titels: J. M. Barrie: Margaret Ogilvy.
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