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Cawnpore, Agra, Delhi, Meerut, Kurnaul etc. etc. and will, we believe be happy to be employed by the residents at the several stations in every way in which his talents can be made available. It should be stated that M. Schoefft is not merely a portrait painter. He has much skill in painting historical subjects, landscapes, costumes, etc. works with astonishing quickness and is, we thing more reasonable in his charge than any artist who has preceded him.
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which features over one-hundred portraits of courtiers. The historic painting received critical acclaim when it was exhibited at the Vienna Salon in 1855. Although many of
Schoefft portraits of Sikh nobles have been lost, the artist fortunately made copies of a several for his own reference. Russian
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M. Schoefft who has resided amongst us for some months and acquired considerable reputation as an artist is, we understand on the point of quitting
Calcutta on a journey to Lahore. On his way thither, M. Schoefft propoes to halt at Moorshedabad, Monghyr, Patna, Dinapore, Benares, Allahabad, Lucknow,
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Five or six portraits in oils without frames, the work of
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Schoefft financed his various international expeditions by securing commission for several prestigious portraits in the 1820s and 30s; most famously that of
Hungarian politician and aristocrat
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Singh, a good looking man, on horseback and wearing that suit of armour which I have already described. The King who admires the armour wished to be painted in it also.
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