Object Number: 2004/031/004

Collection: British Empire & Commonwealth

Object Name: painting

Title: Mrs Lokaranjan

Description: Oil painting. Portrait, head and shoulders of the new bride of one of the King's commissioned officers on the Long Engineering Course run by Col Fitzgerald Smith. She wears a white sari with red edging, and a string of pearls or white beads. One of 15 portraits of Indian staff and colleagues painted by Fitzgerald, 8 are in the BEC collection. Dorothy Fitzgerald was wife of Colonel Fitzgerald Smith of the Indian Army. 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 left.