Find out the name of the painter who painted "In Memoriam" from the option given below:
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 2
The correct answer is Option (2) → Joseph Noel Paton
“In Memoriam” was painted by Joseph Noel Paton two years after the mutiny. It shows English women and children huddled in a circle, looking helpless and waiting for dishonour, violence and death, while the British rescue forces arrive in the background; the rebels themselves are not seen.
Note: A same/similar question was asked in CUET (UG) in the papers below.
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NCERT (2026-27): “5.2 English women and the honour of Britain … Artists expressed as well as shaped these sentiments through their visual representations of trauma and suffering. ‘In Memoriam’ (Fig. 10.11) was painted by Joseph Noel Paton two years after the mutiny. You can see English women and children huddled in a circle, looking helpless and innocent, seemingly waiting for the inevitable – dishonour, violence and death. ‘In Memoriam’ does not show gory violence; it only suggests it. It stirs up the spectator’s imagination, and seeks to provoke anger and fury. It represents the rebels as violent and brutish, even though they remain invisible in the picture. In the background you can see the British rescue forces arriving as saviours.”
Fig. 10.11 “In Memoriam”, by Joseph Noel Paton, 1859 |
