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During what became a two-year trip, de Forest collected furniture, jewellery and textiles as he and his wife travelled through Bombay (Mumbai), Surat, Baroda (Vadodara), Ahmadabad, Agra, Delhi, Amritsar, Lahore, and Srinagar. In Ahmadabad, de Forest met Muggunbhai Hutheesing, a philanthropist with an interest in the arts, and together the two men opened the Ahmadabad Woodcarving Company. This studio took commissions from some of the most prominent Americans of the age including Ogden Goelet, Henry Havemeyer, Mark Twain, and Cornelius Vanderbilt II.
After Associated Artists closed in 1882, de Forest opened his own design business in New York with a lavish showroom at 9 East 17th Street. In addition to managing the design, production and import of goods, De Forest continued to design his own furnishings and architectural ornaments.
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Source: Tom Miller
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This small-scale oil painting on paper, laid down on canvas depicts Rani Rupamati’s Mosque, also known as Mirzapur Queen’s Mosque in Ahmedabad. It is a Sufi mosque, and dagah complex in Mirzapur, in the state of Gujrat. The mosque was built by Mahmud Begada, probably in the latter years (1430-1440) of Ahmad Shah I's reign. It blends Hindu and Muslim architecture and is named after Rani Rupamati whom Mahmud Begada married after death of Qutubuddin.
These two photographs show the exact area painted by De Forest, published in Architecture at Ahmedabad, the Capital of Goozerat, photographed by Colonel Biggs, published in 1866, 25 years before De Forest’s visit. In the 1879 Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency, the writer mentions the area previously being overun by tigers, and how in 1840 one was shot within the Queen's Moseque itself...
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Lockwood De Forest, Rani Rupamati's Mosque, Ahmedabad, (1893): The Friday Find
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