Robert Home (1752 - 1834)

Robert Home

Robert Home was a British portrait painter.

He studied painting at the Royal Academy and in Rome before leaving for India in 1790, where the Third Anglo-Mysore War was taking place. Home joined Lord Cornwallis's army, sketching captured forts, officers and local scenery along the way. He eventually painted some of his famous historical oil paintings.

In 1795, Home arrived in Calcutta, continued his work there as an established artist, and donated his small but valuable art collection to the city. In Calcutta he made more than two hundred watercolors depicting Indian mammals, birds, and reptiles. In 1814 Robert Home moved to Lucknow and became court painter to Nawab Ghazi-ud-Din Haider (1769-1827) and later moved to Kanpur, where he died in 1834.