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7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Venue
Senate House
Room
SWLT (Senate House, Alumni Lecture Theatre)

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Colonel Antoine Polier (1741-95), a Franco-Swiss native who enlisted with the English East India Company, was affiliated with the provincial court of the Nawabs of Awadh from 1772-86 and heavily invested in Indo-Persian culture. 

Whilst residing in Faizabad, Polier commissioned local artists to create new portrait studies and compile new albums containing both calligraphy specimens and paintings for his ever-growing collection. Following Polier’s return to Europe in 1788, he brought his amassed collection of Mughal albums back home and subsequently either gifted or sold parts of the collection before his death in 1796. 

This talk will highlight a ‘newly’ discovered album that has been held in the British Museum since 1860 and only now has been identified as a product of Polier’s workshop.

The event will be in person in the Room LL E37, Library, Main Building at SOAS and via Zoom: for zoom link contact Dr Mehreen Chida-Razvi at indianartcircle.london@gmail.com

Image: Portrait of Nadir Shah, Faizabad, c. 1773-86. (c) British Museum

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