Apparently this is a braindead group so apologies for posting another braindead picture (sorry Im also not trying to sell my own work!) This picture is by our old friend Rudolf Swoboda and was painted in 1892. Bhai Ram Singh was an architect and Vice-Principal of the Mayo School of Art in Lahore. In 1885-7 he worked with Lockwood Kipling, Principal of the Mayo School and father of the writer Rudyard Kipling, in decorating the Indian passage and ballroom at Bagshot Park for the Duke of Connaught. Kipling brought him from Lahore to design the decoration of Queen Victoria’s ‘new room’ – the Durbar Room at Osborne on the Isle of Wight. The Queen met him on site in January 1891 and noted that he was ‘a very intelligent, pleasant, nice man, a Seikh; we looked at sketches he had made for the decoration of the room’. In 1911 King George V made him an MVO (Member of the Royal Victorian Order).
Posted on: Tue, 16 Sep 2014 21:10:42 +0000
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