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unusual facts about Mary Impey


Mary Impey

The wife of Elijah Impey, the chief justice of Bengal, she established a menagerie in Calcutta and commissioned Indian artists to paint the various creatures.


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Large-scale patrons included Colonel James Skinner of Skinner's Horse fame, who had a Rajput mother, and for natural history paintings, Mary Impey, wife of Elijah Impey, who commissioned over three hundred, and the Marquess Wellesley, brother of the first Duke of Wellington, who had over 2,500.


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