This painting of Jantar Mantar, is the work of William Simpson which is currently under in the possession of the Victoria and Alberta Museum. He was an artist and made this painting during his visit to India in 1865. William Simpson was born in 1823 and was interested in art since he was twelve. He was a painter and an apprentice to a lithographer in Glasgow and later on he came to London in 1851. “He became well known for his paintings with commissions by Queen Victoria to paint various important events in her reign” . His journey towards fame was started when he acclaimed the title of the war artist during his time in Crimean War, where he painted various water color sketches, which he send back to his publishers. He was working under the
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During mid- eighteenth century “About 30 British portrait painters trained in oil paintings and 28 miniaturists travelled to India in search of commissions” . Simpson started painting in India in the mid-eighteenth century, he came after the revolt of 1857, which was a rebellion in India against the East India Company Simpson was one of them and during his time in India he covered a diverse range of fields, like, culture, religion, monuments and rebels. He made over 250 paintings during his period in India for Day and Son, but the things didn’t go as he planned as the publisher’s company went bankrupt and most of his paintings were sold in the liquidation process. “'This was the big disaster of my life', as he ruefully remarked”. If things would have gone as he planned than, it might have been the greatest India art collection of eighteenth …show more content…
Romanticism evoked after directly in response to Industrial Revolution in 18th Century Great Britain personifies the emotions along with aesthetic aura in form of Visual Art. “The Ancient Observatory, Jantar Mantar” by William Simpson belongs to the same batch of paintings where many discrete elements of Romanticism are worthy of attention. The radiance of full-moon night, individualization of few folks, and still life of hundred years old giant astronomical structure. The depiction of night subconsciously raises the blue flag of mystery and curiosity because most creative thoughts rushes away in bright sunny light. Even today’s scientific community agrees to the school of Believers who conceive the Night as the time to fuel their creative engines. For the same reason Jantar Mantar’s shadows made in moon’s twilight were chosen out of any other part of the day. The Subject standalone independently avoiding conflict with city’s human beings in a remote area again portrays the peace outside of daily materialistic problems and issues. The subject was a full-fledge set of astronomical devices built by then Maharaja of the region, Jai Singh II in 1724 with five more similar structures in other Indian Cities. This structure consists of 20 main instruments. “Designed for the observation of astronomical positions with the naked eye, they embody several architectural and
During mid- eighteenth century “About 30 British portrait painters trained in oil paintings and 28 miniaturists travelled to India in search of commissions” . Simpson started painting in India in the mid-eighteenth century, he came after the revolt of 1857, which was a rebellion in India against the East India Company Simpson was one of them and during his time in India he covered a diverse range of fields, like, culture, religion, monuments and rebels. He made over 250 paintings during his period in India for Day and Son, but the things didn’t go as he planned as the publisher’s company went bankrupt and most of his paintings were sold in the liquidation process. “'This was the big disaster of my life', as he ruefully remarked”. If things would have gone as he planned than, it might have been the greatest India art collection of eighteenth …show more content…
Romanticism evoked after directly in response to Industrial Revolution in 18th Century Great Britain personifies the emotions along with aesthetic aura in form of Visual Art. “The Ancient Observatory, Jantar Mantar” by William Simpson belongs to the same batch of paintings where many discrete elements of Romanticism are worthy of attention. The radiance of full-moon night, individualization of few folks, and still life of hundred years old giant astronomical structure. The depiction of night subconsciously raises the blue flag of mystery and curiosity because most creative thoughts rushes away in bright sunny light. Even today’s scientific community agrees to the school of Believers who conceive the Night as the time to fuel their creative engines. For the same reason Jantar Mantar’s shadows made in moon’s twilight were chosen out of any other part of the day. The Subject standalone independently avoiding conflict with city’s human beings in a remote area again portrays the peace outside of daily materialistic problems and issues. The subject was a full-fledge set of astronomical devices built by then Maharaja of the region, Jai Singh II in 1724 with five more similar structures in other Indian Cities. This structure consists of 20 main instruments. “Designed for the observation of astronomical positions with the naked eye, they embody several architectural and