A portrait of Maharaja Gulab Singh of Jammu, Sikh school, Punjab, India, late 19th century, opaque pigments on paper heightened with gold, depicted seated and facing forward, wearing a distinctive striped turban, a European style table with blue tablecloth and books resting on top to his left, a gold and brown floral carpet beneath his feet, 30.3 x 20.3cm. Gulab Singh Jamwal (1792–1857) was the founder of Dogra dynasty and the first Maharaja of the Dogra Rajput princely state of Jammu and Kashmir, the second largest princely state under the British Raj, which was created after the defeat of the Sikh Empire in the First Anglo-Sikh War.Paint loss throughout