Lance Naik
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Summary
: 2004/031/001
: British Empire & Commonwealth
: painting
: Lance Naik
: Oil painting. Portrait, head and shoulders of a Lance Naik (Lance Corporal), name unknown, a Sikh in the Bombay Sappers and Miners. Medal ribbon includes the Frontier Medal and the Burma Star. Dorothy Fitzgerald was wife of Colonel Fitzgerald Smith of the Indian Army. One of 15 portraits of Indian staff and colleagues painted by Fitzgerald, 8 are in the BEC collection. Lacking proper supplies, Col Fitzgerald Smith used his old kit bag and deckchairs to supply the canvas, on stretchers made by his carpentry staff Signed bottom right.
Current Location
: British Empire & Commonwealth Museum Collection
: Roorkee (Rorkie), Attarkhand, India, South Central Asia, Asia: Sikh
: 1948
: Unknown donor or vendor: Roorkee (Rorkie), Attarkhand, India, South Central Asia, Asia: 1948
: 1948: Transferred from the British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, 2012