page_title: Alwar State
section_title: Rulers of Alwar state
hierarchical_section_title: Alwar State / Rulers of Alwar state
caption_attribution_description: English: 'Company paintings' were produced by Indian artists for Europeans living and working in the Indian subcontinent, especially British employees of the East India Company. They represent a fusion of traditional Indian artistic styles with conventions and technical features borrowed from western art. Some Company paintings were specially commissioned, while others were virtually mass-produced and could be purchased in bazaars. This Company painting is a portrait of Thakur Raja Bakhtawar Singh made by Fateh Muhammad around 1880 in western Rajasthan, probably Bikaner. The Rajput princely states had strong artistic traditions of their own, and their rulers were often generous patrons of painting. Consequently Company painting never really developed in Rajasthan to the extent that it did in many other areas of India. Occasionally, however, drawings were made in a semi-European style based on paintings from other parts of the country, and towards the end of the 19th century rulers were depicted, as here, in a European manner strongly influenced by photography; but on the whole there is little Company painting from Rajasthan.
context_page_description: Alwar State was a princely state with its capital at Alwar during the period of the British Raj in India.
  Founded in 1770 CE by Pratap Singh Prabhakar, its last reigning ruler, H.H.Maharaja Sir Tej Singh Prabhakar Bahadur, signed the accession to the Indian Union on 7 April 1949.
context_section_description: Partap Singh (1770-1791) Raja of Alwar
  Bakhtawar Singh Prabhakar (reign: 1791–1815), Raja of Alwar.
  Bane Singh Prabhakar (reign: 1815–1857), Raja of Alwar.
  Sheodan Singh Prabhakar (reign: 1857–1874), Raja of Alwar.
  Sir Mangal Singh Prabhakar (reign: 1874–1892), Maharaja of Alwar.
  Honorary Colonel Sir Jai Singh Prabhakar (reign: 1892–1937), Maharaja of Alwar.
  Colonel Sir Tej Singh Prabhakar (reign: 1937-1947), the last reigning Maharaja of Alwar. Sir Tej Singh remained the titular or nominal Maharaja up until his death in New Delhi in February 2009.
  Jitendra Singh, the current nominal Maharaja of Alwar (since February 2009).
caption: Portrait of Thakur Raja Bakhtawar Singh, standing in a European-style interior.
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