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 Dictionary of Indian Biography G to I

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Date transcribed2011-04-00
Transcribed byPeter Bailey
CommentNote that notables of Indian, Afghan, etc. origin do not always follow the alphabetical name pattern established by Buckland in his original work.

Surnames  Home    
First Name(s)  Robert    
Year of Birth  1764?    
Year of Death  1834    
Entry  Artist : son of Robert Boyne Home : from 1770 exhibited portraits at the Royal Academy and at Dublin : went to Madras in 1790 : with Lord Cornwallis' Army before Seringapatam, 1791-2 : went to Calcutta, 1792 : at Lucknow he was chief painter to the King of Oudh for some years, and made a large fortune : he returned to Calcutta in 1797 and died there about 1834 : was Secretary to the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 1802, and painted for it. Indian pictures by Home were exhibited at the Academy : he published Select Views in Mysore, the Country of Tippoo Sultan, and A Description of Seringapatam, the Capital of Tippoo Sultan, illustrated : he painted in India pictures of Marquis Wellesley and Colonel Arthur Wellesley, Bishop Heber and Dr. Carey.     
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