Figure of the Maha Mudaliyar, anonymous, c. 1750 - c. 1800 Canvas Print
The maha mudaliyar formed the link between the Dutch government and the local population and played an important role in the contacts with the court of Kandy, including as an interpreter. It may be a portrait of Nicolas Dias Abayasinha Amarasekera. He was in the service of Governor De Graaff from 8 March 1785 until his death in 1794. The man wears a tuppottiya (long cloth that is wrapped several times around the waist and legs) and over it a long European coat with a row of buttons along the entire length at the front. Over his coat he wears from right to left a sash decorated with a floral pattern. He wears his hair tightly back in a kind of bun on the back of his head. There are remains of polychromy, especially on the back of the head near the black hair, red in the neck and gilding on tuppottiya. The man wrapped a cloth around his right hand. The posture of his left hand seems to indicate that he was holding something in this as well.
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