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   Das
   Bahwani
   B. S. ; Bhawani D. ;
   
   
   1750 c.
   1782 fl.
   Calcutta ?
   
   -> Ram Das, possibly his brother or father
   
   India
   Lady Impey, , born Reade, wife of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in Calcutta, Sir Elijah Impey (1732-1809) ;
   Lady Mary Impey, wife of Sir Josiah, the Chief Justice of Bengal from 1774 to 1782
   
   botanical, ornithological, entomological, and animal drawing and watercolour ;
   www.artnet.com/artists/bhawani-das/past-auction-results ;
   https://www.botanicalartandartists.com/famous-asian-botanical-artists-600-1900.html ;
   Mildred Archer: Natural History Drawings in the India Office Library, London 1962: 54-55; Phylis I. Edwards et al. (eds.) Indian Botamical Drawings 1980: 17
   Hindu. One of three artists employed by Mary Impey who commissioned over three hundred paintings.
   
   
   


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