Jiwan Ram
painter in British India during 19th Century
Jiwan Ram was an Indian artist active in the 19th century. He was a Delhi-based painter who worked with oil-on-canvas techniques but was a versatile artist who could work in other methods and mediums, such as miniature portraits on board and ivory. He worked as an independent painter without a patron rather than as an employee of the British East India Company, facing no competition from British artists in upper India in this period. He copied the techniques and style of European portraits. He mostly painted portraits of army officers, especially after the Bharatpur war of 1826.
