Ganda Singh, a Sikh chaprassee [sic] of Col Wilmer’s topographical No. 14 survey party, 1894
oil on canvas, oil painting
Accession Number
NAM.1951-11-7-1
Description
Ganda Singh, a Sikh chaprassee [sic] of Col Wilmer’s topographical No. 14 survey party, 1894. Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left ‘G E Burrard/ Nov 1894’, by Gertrude Ellen Burrard (later Lady Gertrude) (1860-1928), 1894. Bust-length portrait of a chaprasi (messenger) looking to left. Gertrude Ellen Burrard accompanied her husband Sidney Burrard, an Indian Army Officer, around the Indian subcontinent during his time as Superintendent on the Trigonometrical Survey of India. As an amateur artist, she recorded the people and places that she encountered and exhibited her paintings for many years in India.
Campaigns
1st Sikh War (1845-1846)
Associated collection
