Artists Profile

James Hunter

(1755 - 1792)

James Hunter served as a solider with the Royal Artillery of the British military in India. As an artist he often depicted aspects of military matters as well as snippets of everyday affairs around him. He took part in actively defeating Tippu Sultan’s campaigns and several others, opening the portal to create a plethora of sketches that portrayed 18th century South India in beautiful panoramas and the military, civil and even personal life of Tipu Sultan and his father Haider Ali. These range from cityscapes, landscapes and architecture of Mysore, Bangalore, Madras, Kancheepuram, Hosur, Arcot etc. Collection of these paintings were published as a section of A Brief history of ancient and modern India embellished with coloured engravings in 1801 and Picturesque Views in the Kingdom of Mysore in 1804.