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    Ágoston Schoefft: Court of Lahore   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
    Artist
    Ágoston Schoefft (1809–1888)  wikidata:Q15525117
     
    Ágoston Schoefft
    Alternative names
    Josef August Schoefft
    Description Austro-Hungarian painter
    Date of birth/death 1809 Edit this at Wikidata 1888 Edit this at Wikidata
    Location of birth/death Pest Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
    Work location
    India, Iran, London, Mexico, United States
    Authority file
    artist QS:P170,Q15525117
    Title
    Court of Lahore
    Object type painting
    object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
    Description
    English: Painting by August Schoefft depicting Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s court at Lahore Fort. It depicts Ranjit Singh, along with several members of the royal family including his successors Maharaja Kharak Singh and Maharaja Sher Singh, many of his ministers and other high ranking officials of the Sikh empire. Schoefft visited the Lahore Fort during the reign of Maharaja Sher Singh in 1841-42, and was commissioned to paint several portraits and paintings. The painting is currently housed at the Sikh Gallery in Rani Jindan Haveli, Lahore Fort.

    Description of this painting from Jean-Marie Lafont's book Maharaja Ranjit Singh: Lord of the Five Rivers:

    [Cover photo] "The Court of Lahore", Detail

    A. Schoefft. Der Hof von Lahor

    Lahore 1841-Vienna 1855

    Princess Bamba Collection

    Sikh Gallery-Lahore Fort, Lahore

    Courtesy: Director of Archaeology, Govt of Pakistan
    Date 1855
    date QS:P571,+1855-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
    Medium oil
    medium QS:P186,Q296955
    Notes
    English: After original drawings made by the artist at Lahore, 1842.
    Source/Photographer Princess Bamba Collection

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    Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s court at Lahore Fort, by August Schoefft

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