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This is one of two pictures from a set made for a Calcutta resident, showing his house, servants, and pets.  The distinguished Company artist Shaikh Muhammad Amir painted them. He worked in the Karraya suburb of Calcutta. From about the 1780s, British residents began to move out of the city centre to the pleasant new suburbs of Chowringhee and Garden Reach. It was here that local artists found plenty of work. Shaikh Muhammad Amir specialised in paintings of the houses and domestic staff of British suburbanites.","physicalDescription":"Artists working at Calcutta portrayed the residences of the British, their servants and carriages, as illustrated in this painting of a groom with a horse and carriage. 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London : V&A Publications, 1990. 240 p., ill. ISBN 1851770224, p.198, pl.173.\r\n\r\nArcher, Mildred. <u> Company Paintings Indian Paintings of the British period</u> \r\nVictoria and Albert Museum Indian Series London: Victoria and Albert Museum, Maplin Publishing, 1992, 105 p ISBN 0944142303\r\n"},{"reference":{"text":"Arts of Bengal : the heritage of Bangladesh and eastern India : an exhibition organized by the Whitechapel Art Gallery in collaboration with the Victoria and Albert Museum : 9 November-30 December 1979, Whitechapel Art Gallery ..., 12 January-17 February 1980, Manchester City Art Gallery ... . 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