Johann Joseph Zoffany

Johann Joseph Zoffany was a German neoclassical painter who was active mainly in England, Italy and India. Zoffany was a master of what has been called the 'theatrical conversation piece', (The conversation piece was a relatively small, though not necessarily inexpensive, informal group portrait, often of a family group or a circle of friends. This genre developed in the Netherlands and France, and it became popular in Britain from about 1720.) Zoffany has been described by one critic as "the real creator and master of this genre"
Zoffany spent the years 1783 to early 1789 in India, where he painted portraits including the Governor-General of Bengal, Warren Hastings, and the Nawab Wazir of Oudh, Asaf-ud-Daula an altarpiece of the Last Supper (1787) for St John's Church of England, Calcutta; and a vibrant history painting, Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Fight (1784–86).  William Dalrymple describes Zoffany as having been "the first and last Royal Academician to have become a cannibal.