A Syce (Groom) Holding Two Carriage Horses

attributed to Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya

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Many of the East India Company officers who commissioned paintings during the nineteenth century sought a visual record of their own households, including animals, possessions, and servants. Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya specialized in such paintings and depicted these subjects with a naturalism that is both dignified and poetic. In this work the artist has painted a syce, or groom, symmetrically flanked by almost identical horses.

A Syce (Groom) Holding Two Carriage Horses, attributed to Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya (active 1830s–40s), Opaque watercolor on paper

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