After decades collecting artworks from colonial-era India, British historian Charles Greig has donated 50 paintings and watercolours to Tate, including rare 18th-century portraits; a public display is planned for 2028
Johann Zoffany’s ‘Portrait of Prince Jawan Bakht’ (Image credit: tate.org.uk) A painting is never merely a record of truth, but a subject of representation and reimagination. And artworks specially prepared while recording the British colonial period in India are not merely art, but a glimpse into an India that exists today only in a few…
