WARD, Benjamin Swain. 1786 — Cape Town 19.6.1835. British Colonial Officer in India. Son of Francis Swain Ward (1736–1794). Lieutenant of Madras infantry. In 1799-1810 worked under C. Mackenzie in Mysore survey. Together with Ltn. P. E. Conner conducted the survey of Travancore and Cochin 1810-21. He was also an…
WACHSBERGER, Arthur. Troppau, Silesia (now Opava in Czech) 7.5.1891 — Haifa 1943. Austrian Art Historian and Architect. Son of a Jewish merchant. After school in Troppau studied at Vienna. Ph.D. 1914 Vienna (under Strzygowski). Moved to Köln, worked as Assistant in Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst. Served in WW I as…
STRADIOT, Eugène Clement François. India 1850 — India 14.12.1917. Belgian Musician in India. Son of Francois Albert Joseph Stradiot (d. 1868) and his wife Josephine. Director of music to H. E. the Governor of Madras, a position his father had before him. Married 1881 Honoria Hallet Lynn, children. Publications: “Notes on the…
ROUSSEAU, Pierre (pseudonym Pierre Vellones). Paris 29.3.1889 — Paris 17.7.1939. French Composer and Painter. Educated at Collège Stanislas. Studied medicine, from 1914 in the army. After 1926 seriously ill. He was rather noted composer with wide production of different genres (including the ballet Le Paradis d’Amitabha 1938). Publications: “L’art du Tibet:”, RAA 4, 1927, 21-39 (les…
MILWARD, Marguerite. Near Birmingham 1873 — 11.2.1953. British Artist. Educated at the art schools of Birmingham and Bromsgrove, further studies in Paris. Before WW I in Sri Lanka. “As a sculptress she travelled in search of typical heads among certain primitive tribes and backward classes” all over India in the…
JACKSON, Welby Brown. Ilford, Essex (London) 30.12.1802 — 17.11.1890.British Civil Servant and Artist in India. Son of Sor John J., Bart. (d. 1820), and Charlotte Spry Gorham (d. 1807). To India before 1830, 1852 still there, 1856 in England and then lived long in Upton, Buckinghamshire (still there 1881). At some…
HADAWAY, William Snelling. Maiden, MA 1872 — ?.10.1941. U.S. Artist in India. Son of Ephraim Locke H. and Helen Agnes Noyes. Trained at School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston. Married 1893 Julia Peck, divorced 1895.In 1894-95 in Italy, then active in Boston art circles.…
RAWSON, Philip Stanley. Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire 13.1.1924 — 6.11.1995. British Artist and Art Historian. Son of Stanley Walter Rawson, an industrialist, and Phyllis Adeline Bargate. Wducated at Winchester College. After war service studies at Oxford and Courtauld Institute, also Sanskrit and Indian art at S.O.A.S. Dean of School of Art…
SOLVYNS, François Balthazar (Frans Balthazar Solvijns). Antwerpen 1760 — Antwerpen 10.10.1824. Belgian Artist in India. Son of Maximiliaan S., a merchant, and Maria Abeloos. “Showed genius at 12, drew sea-pieces. Patronized by the Arch-duchess Maria Christina till her death. Accompanied Sir Home Popham in a voyage [1787] to the East.…
SIMPSON, William. Glasgow 28.10.1823 — London 17.8.1899. British (Scottish) Artist. Of modest origin, became famous as newspaper illustrator. He illustrated Crimean war and travelled in 1859-62 in India preparing sketches (like Daniell). Also visited Ladakh. The book project was a failure and the publisher went bankrupt. Further travels in Russia…