Frederick Charles Maisey (1825–1892) was an English army officer, archaeological surveyor and painter, active in India.[2][1] His main painting technique was pen and ink, and watercolour.[1]
Early life edit
Maisey was son of Thomas Maisey (1787-1840), of Portland Place, Marylebone, London, a painter and lithographer- sometime drawing master at schools in Cheam and in Kensington-[3] who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and was a founding member (treasurer),[4] later president,[5] of the New Watercolour Society.[6][7][8]
Career edit
Maisey was a lieutenant in the British Army circa 1850 in the Bengal Native Infantry, and participated to the British exploration of India.[2][9] Maisey was in charge of the excavation of Sanchi in 1851, working with fellow English officer Alexander Cunningham.[1] In 1852 he also made the earliest painting of the Temples at Khajuraho.[10]
Maisey reached the rank of General on December 1, 1888.[2][11]
His son, also Frederick Charles Maisey, born on 7 July 1851, became a lieutenant-colonel in the British Army.[citation needed]
Works edit
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5th century Bhima pillar, Eran. Watercolor by F.C. Maisey, 1850 -
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Relics discovered in the excavation of Sanchi Stupa No.2
See also edit
References edit
- ^ a b c d Wright, Colin. "'Miscellaneous Series. Plate.12. Juma Masjid, Chanderi'. Maisey in a top-hat sketching in the foreground". www.bl.uk.
- ^ a b c Hoock, Holger (2010). Empires of the Imagination: Politics, War and the Arts in the British World, 1750-1850. Profile Books. p. 344. ISBN 978-1-86197-859-2.
- ^ A Biographical Dictionary of Royal Academy Students 1769-1830, Martin Myrone, Walpole Society, 2022
- ^ https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/organisation/royal-institute-of-painters-in-water-colours
- ^ http://royalinstituteofpaintersinwatercolours.org/history
- ^ https://somersetandwood.com/frederick-charles-maisey-mathabhanga-flat-west-bengal-india-1843-drawing-js-676
- ^ https://somersetandwood.com/thomas-maisey-pnws-riverside-with-church-weir-early-19th-century-lithograph-js-667
- ^ https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/term/BIOG36906
- ^ Singh, Sohini (June 2018). "Occidental Encounters and Impressions: The Trajectory of British-instituted Practices of Survey and Documentation in India with Special Reference to Frederick Charles Maisey's Drawings of Chanderi". Indian Historical Review. 45 (1): 58–91. doi:10.1177/0376983617750663. S2CID 149662516.
- ^ Punja, Shobita (2010). Khajuraho: The First Thousand Years. Penguin UK. p. 17. ISBN 978-93-85890-40-6.
- ^ London Gazette. 1888. p. 7203.