Portrait of Maharaja Duleep Singh

Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1806-1873)

1854

Oil on Canvas

2038 x 1095 mm.

Courtesy of the Royal Collection

Osborne House

East Cowes, Isle of Wight

This painting is Figure 1 in Julie F. Codell’s “Photographic Interventions and Identities: Colonising and Decolonising the Royal Body” (link), which appears in the section about British India on this website.

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Portrait in its frame in the Durbar Corridor at Osborne

Bust of Maharajah Duleep Singh, by Carlo Marochetti

Modern memorial sculpture of the Maharajah

Maharajah Duleep Singh, the last ruler of the Sikh kingdom of Punjab