A Syce (Groom) Holding Two Carriage Horses, ca. 1845, Made in India, Calcutta, Opaque watercolor on paper, H. 12 in. (30. 5 cm), Codices, attributed to Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya (active 1830s?40s), Many of the East India Company officers who commissioned paintings during the nineteenth century sought a visual record of their own households, including animals, possessions, and servants. Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya specialized in such paintings and depicted these subjects with a naturalism that is both dignified and poetic