Born in Liverpool in 1833, Sir James Braithwaite Peile was educated at Repton School, where his father, Thomas Braithwaite Peile, was headmaster. Peile, who went up to Oriel College, Oxford, enjoyed a distinguished career as a senior civil servant in the administration during the British Raj, serving as the acting Governor of Bombay in March 1885. He died in 1906.
A little watercolour of two figures on a country path in the village of Gangur, some 190 kilometres from Bangalore, by the English civil servant and artist Sir James Peile. Signed in ink on the original mount. In good condition in its original frame.
Measures 12.5 cm wide by 17.5 cm deep (28 cm by 34 cm in its frame).
£100
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