AN INDIAN MINIATURE PAINTING DEPICTING A LION HUNT North India, late 18^th to mid-19^th century. Watercolors and gold on paper. Depicting a ruler and his attendant on horseback by a small stream lined with flowers and rocks, wearing elaborate robes and adorned with beaded jewelry, the ruler holding a money bag in his hand as three hunters, one holding a bow and another a spear, request payment for having killed the lion before them.

Provenance: From the collection of Eben Hamilton, Chesworth House, Horsham, England. Thence by descent. The reverse inscribed ‘Hamilton. Chesworth House. Horsham’. Eben Hamilton was a British barrister. After reading law at Trinity College, Cambridge, he was called to the bar in 1962. He met his wife, Themy Bilimoria, a Parsi from Mumbai, in 1966. Together they shared a deep passion for the arts of India.
Condition: Very good condition with minor wear, soiling, and creasing, few minuscule losses, possibly microscopic touchups.

Dimensions: Image size 33 x 18 cm. Total size 44 x 31.5 cm (including frame). Mounted and framed behind glass.

Auction result comparison: Compare a related Mughal painting of Jahangir on a lion hunt, dated late 18^th to early 19^th century, at Christie’s London in Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds on 25 October 2018, lot 178, sold for GBP 5,625.