Rudolph Swoboda (1859-1914)

"In 1886, Queen Victoria sent out to India the young Hungarian painter Rudlof Swoboda to record for her portraits, not only of the leading princes, but also the numerous minor chieftains and their subjects. Swoboda's portraits have a sense of deep and profound empathy with his sitters and he appears to have engaged with each in order to understand and convey their characters, their foibles, their strengths and their weaknesses." (Charles Greig, Marg Publications, Vol. 59 No. 4, p. 28, June 2008 Portraits in Princely India , 1700-1947)