NAM.1951-11-12-1

Subadar Major Judbhir Thapa, 2nd (Prince of Wales’s Own) Gurkha (Rifle) Regiment (The Sirmoor Rifles), 1893. Oil on canvas signed and dated lower left ‘G E Burrard/ Dec 1893’ by Gertrude Ellen Burrard (later Lady Burrard) (1860-1928), 1893. Half-length, in uniform and decorations. This is one of two paintings of the same subject by the artist in the Museum’s Collection). It was awarded the Governor of Bombay’s prize for best picture (out of 519 paintings) at the Western India Exhibition Poona in 1894.