A PORTRAIT OF AN INDIAN NOBLEMANNorthern India, late 19th - early 20th centuryOpaque pigments and gold on paper, the vertical composition depicting an Indian nobleman, possibly a prince or a ruler, posing in front of the painter, his face serious and with freshly shaved beard, a horizontal white tilakaon his forehead, wearing a burgundy jama and fully bejewelled, with several strings of pearls and diamond beads on his neck, denoting high status, mounted, glazed and framed, 37cm x 30.5cm.