Maung Pe, a chaprassee (messenger) in the Triangulation Survey Party, brought from Burma by Capt C F Close RE, 1892
oil on canvas, oil painting
Accession Number
NAM.1951-11-9-1
Description
Maung Pe, a chaprassee (messenger) in the Triangulation Survey Party, brought from Burma by Capt C F Close RE, 1892 Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right ‘G E Burrard/ 1892’, by Gertrude Ellen Burrard (later Lady Gertrude) (1860-1928), 1892. Bust-length portrait of a chaprasi, facing forwards. 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.
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