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in 1769. He went to Rome in 1773 for further training and remained in Italy until 1777. From 1783 to 1789 he worked in Dublin and London before leaving for India in 1790. On 5 February 1791, Home was allowed to follow
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were published in London and Madras in 1794, and in Calcutta he made 215 watercolours of Indian mammals, birds and reptiles, some of which he also worked up as oils.
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while he was in South India. In November 1792, Home came into contact with artists
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in January/February 1793 and the two paintings he painted as a result, titled
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The Death of Colonel Moorhouse at the Storming of the Pettah Gate of Bangalore
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in 1791. During his travels he also painted historic scenes and landscapes.
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in the United Kingdom as the son of an eminent army surgeon from
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who inspired him to continue painting landscapes. He visited
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The Hostage Princes leaving home with the Vakil, Ghulam Ali
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Home painted some of his well-known paintings such as
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Select Views in Mysore, the Country of Tippoo Sultan
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Robert Home (officer)

British
oil portrait painter
Indian subcontinent

Hull
Greenlaw
Berwickshire
Royal Academy Schools
Lord Cornwallis'
Third Anglo-Mysore War
Bangalore
Thomas Daniell
William Daniell
Mahabalipuram
The Asiatic Society
Kolkata
Kolkata
Lucknow
court painter
Ghazi-ud-Din Haider
Kanpur


"The Tiger and the Thistle: Tipu Sultan and the Scots in India"


"Person - National Portrait Gallery"

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