© National Portrait Gallery
Lord Clive Receiving the Homage of the Nawab
Artist: Francis Hayman (1708 - 1776)
Location: National Portrait Gallery
Date: 1762
Materials: oil on canvas
Dimensions: 102 x 127 cm
Grant:
Amount Paid: £1,000 (Total: £2,800)
Vendor: Christie's
Review number: 2752 (1979)
Provenance:
Anon sale, Christie's June 1922.
Description:
A 'modello' for one of the four decorative canvases that Hayman painted for the Rotunda Saloon in Vauxhall Gardens. It depicts Clive receiving the homage of Jafar Ali after the Battle of Plasey (1757), when he installed him as Nawab of Bengal.
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