File:Sri Ganga Singh Bahadur, the Maharaja of Bikaner.jpg

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Summary

James Guthrie: Sri Ganga Singh Bahadur, the Maharaja of Bikaner, 1880 - 1943. Statesman (Study for portrait in Statesman of the Great War, National Portrait Gallery, London)

Artist



Alternative names	Sir James Guthrie; Sir Guthrie; James Guthrie (Sir); James, Sir Guthrie; james guthrie
Description	Scottish painter
Date of birth/death	10 June 1859	6 September 1930
Location of birth/death	Greenock	Rhy, Dunbartonshire
Authority file	: Q941953 VIAF: 39651418 ISNI: 0000000066620270 ULAN: 500008066 LCCN: n85378521 NLA: 36550638 WorldCat

Title

English: Sri Ganga Singh Bahadur, the Maharaja of Bikaner, 1880 - 1943. Statesman (Study for portrait in Statesman of the Great War, National Portrait Gallery, London)

Object type

painting

Genre

portrait

Description

Sri Ganga Singhji Bahadur succeeded his father at the age of seven and assumed full powers as a ruler at eighteen. He commanded the Bikaner Camel Corps as part of the British forces in China in 1901 and, by 1917, had been appointed Major-General in the British Army. With the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, the Maharajah’s military career reached its peak and he was twice mentioned in dispatches. He was one of the three representatives of India at the Imperial War Cabinet of 1917 and at the Peace Conference of 1919, and, in the peace years, led the Indian delegations to the assemblies of the League of Nations. This oil sketch was made by Guthrie in preparation for his great commission ‘Statesmen of the Great War’.

Depicted people

Ganga Singh

Date

circa 1920

Medium

oil on canvas

Dimensions

height: 111.2 cm (43.7 in); width: 86.8 cm (34.1 in)

Collection

Scottish National Gallery

	Native name	Scottish National Gallery
	Parent institution	National Galleries Scotland
	Location	Edinburgh
	Coordinates	55° 57′ 03.24″ N, 3° 11′ 44.38″ W
	Established	1859
	Website	nationalgalleries.org/visit/scottish-national-gallery
	Authority file	: Q942713 VIAF: 129667249 ISNI: 0000000121562553 ULAN: 500293831 LCCN: n80073803 NLA: 35174426 WorldCat

Current location

National Galleries Scotland

Accession number

PG 1130

Object history

Given by W.G. Gardiner and Sir Frederick C. Gardiner 1930

References

Source/Photographer

National Gallery of Scotland

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