Pair of Company School Botanical Watercolours
£1,600
A pair of Company School botanical watercolours of a Gardenia and a Pink Anemone. Presented mounted and in painted frames
Height 59 cm (23 inches) framed
Width 49 cm (19.25 inches)
late 18th/early 19th century
Botanical watercolours were produced by various artists in the employment of the East India Company from around 1760 through to the early 19th Century. These were know as Company school, and proved extremely popular with their English audience who revelled in the mystique of the sub-continent.
