2-708-753 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'A Mohammedan Servant', c1874-1876, (1965). Portrait of an Indian man in a red turban. Bania, (also Baniya or Vanika), can be used to refer to a trader or merchant belonging to the Indian business class. Painting also known as 'Bania (Trader). Bombay'. From "Russian Painting of the 18th and 19th Centuries" by Vladimir Fiala. [Artia, Czechoslovakia, 1965]