Painting (oil) (painting)

Oil painting. The painting is a head and shoulders portrait of an Indian Subedar Major (a Mahrrata), Royal Bombay Sappers and Miners. Yellow background.
One of 15 portraits of Indian staff and colleagues painted by Fitzgerald, 4 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.