Comments on: Ravi Varma – Making a name in Madras

By: Portrait of the past | Madras Heritage and Carnatic Music

Portrait of the past | Madras Heritage and Carnatic Music — Tue, 14 May 2013 01:29:23 +0000

[…] these, and which I hope will be displayed at a prominent place when the building is restored, is Raja Ravi Varma’s Going Out.It is a rather unusual work of the painter who was better known for his portraits of […]

By: Sue

Sue — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 09:28:56 +0000

Hi
can anyone help me with information on one of my ancestors
Arthur ( A A Hayles of the Madras Mail)
I believe he wrote something about the Chamber of Commerce 1936

By: Indian History Carnival – 41: Vasco da Gama, Universal Hinduism, Ravi Varma, Babylon | varnam

Sun, 15 May 2011 08:17:52 +0000

[...] Sriram writes about how Ravi Varma made a name in Madras, based on Rupika Chawla’s book Raja Ravi Varma, Painter of Colonial India Ravi Varma became known to the citizens of Madras in 1874 when he entered his Nair Woman at her Toilette for display at the Fine Art Exhibition in the city. He was awarded a gold medal for this work and four years later, he arrived in the city, this time to attend the next Fine Art Exhibition where his Shakuntala Patralekhan (Shakuntala writing a letter) won a gold medal. The painting was also acquired by the Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, who was then Governor of the Presidency. Buckingham was evidently very impressed with Ravi Varma’s work for two years later, he sat for a portrait of himself by the artist. He was now to be amazed by the speed with which Ravi Varma worked and noted “though he had given no less than 18 sittings to an eminent continental artist, he had not produced half so faithful a likeness as the Indian artist had done”. [...]