Lot 125

By repute: British Exhibition, School of Art Jaipur, 1880

In the latter half of the nineteenth century, art schools began to emerge across the Indian subcontinent. The faculties comprising predominantly of British teachers instituted a model of education combining academic training with native techniques to scale up the production as the outputs from the schools' workshops went to meet the demands of the European market, following the successful reception of Indian art in the Great Exhibition in London in 1851.

The ‘Jeypore School of Industrial Arts' opened in 1866 at the behest of the Maharaja Ram Singh II. From the outset, the school's main ideology was to ‘exhibit' rather than to produce articles of direct utility.