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Asurgeon- historian tracks the life of Scottish painter and compulsive documenter James Wales in Mumbai and Pune, calling his work the most comprehensive on 18th century Indian history
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Sawai Madhavrao, the 11th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire, with Nana Fadnavis and attendants, in Poona, 1792.
PIC/ WIKICOMMONS ART is in the details. And if Punebased historian Dr Uday S Kulkarni is to be believed, the only painter to have managed to capture the minutiae of everyday life, while memorialising the richness of the Marathas in the late 1700s was Scottish artist James Wales. Until then, there were the stray profile portraits of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and Peshwa Baji Rao that would eventually make their way to the museums of the world. But, itu2019s Walesu2019s u201c glorious technicolouru201d painting of Sawai Madhavrao ( also known as Madhav Rao II), the 11th Peshwa of the Maratha Empire in and characters that made his subject life- likeu201d. u201c It almost looked better than a photograph,u201d says 63- year- old Kulkarni.
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