DAG presents Destination India: Foreign artists in India 1857–1947. A group show which looks at the work of foreign artists who visited India between the Uprising (1857) and Independence (1947) as examples of a late phase of Orientalist art. The famous landscape painters of a much earlier era, such as William Hodges and Thomas and William Daniell, had clearly defined goals: they came in search of picturesque views of architecture and landscape. The artists who came later, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, were more diverse in every way. They were more interested in people and society, and scenes of everyday life, than in monuments. They were stylistically varied; and they came from many countries including Germany, Holland, Denmark, France and even Japan, besides Britain.

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