‘Painters, Ports, and Profits,’ an exhibition at the YCBA

‘Painters, Ports, and Profits,’ an exhibition at the YCBA

An exhibition at the Yale Center of British Art shares stories of how artists from India, Britain, and China responded to the British East India Company’s ruthless pursuit of power and profit.

Daniell painted the scene for the director of the East India Dock Company, which built and managed port facilities for the British East India Company the immensely powerful and ruthless trading corpo… [+1379 chars]
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