STUDIO OF SHAIKH MUHAMMED OF AMIR KARRAYA (FL. 1830 - 1850)A WHITE STALLION WITH A GROOM; AND A BAY HORSE WITH A GROOMPencil, watercolour and gum arabic, heightened with white, on paper within the artist's original borderBoth with inscription 'Sheikh Mohamud Ameer.' (lower right in the border) and separate Urdu inscriptions14.5 x 21.5cm (5? x 8?in.) (2)Provenance:Sale Christie's, London, Arts of India, 24 September 2003, lot 146 where purchased by the present ownerShaikh Muhammad Amir was a resident of Karraya who travelled to Calcutta circa 1830 to seek employment as an artist., there he built up a huge practise at a time of great prosperity and secured many commissions to depict the British residents of Calcutta's houses, servants, pets and conveyances. He was so successful that in order to meet all his commissions he established an atelier where other talented artists helped assisted him. In deference to Western traditions he introduced shadows and similar devices into his art for their aesthetic rather than logical value. The artists would also have been familiar with the poses of horses and grooms in English sporting prints and the representation of the horses reflects the contemporary passion for racing in Anglo-India circles. It is unusual for the name of a Company School artist to be recorded as the majority of work executed for the western market was unsigned.
Pencil, watercolour and gum arabic, heightened with white, within the artist's original border

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