Embassy of Haider Beg Khan to Lord Cornwallis - Johan Zoffany c 1795 Vintage Orientalist Paintings of India

Embassy of Haider Beg Khan to Lord Cornwallis c 1795 is a Vintage Orientalist Paintings of India by Johan Zoffany. Johan 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) (Tate), described by historian Maya Jasanoff as ‘easily the liveliest illustration of early colonial India’. In the usual way, he sired several children by an Indian mistress, or ‘uppa-patni’. Returning to England, he was shipwrecked off the Andaman Islands. The survivors held a lottery in which the loser (a sailor) was eaten. William Dalrymple describes Zoffany as having been "the first and last Royal Academician to have become a cannibal".

Johan Joseph Zoffany, RA (1733 –1810) was a German neoclassical painter, active mainly in England, Italy and India.   Zoffani 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 for St John's Church of England, Calcutta; and a vibrant history painting, Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Fight, described by historian Maya Jasanoff as ‘easily the liveliest illustration of early colonial India’.