The Painted Photograph

I was just going through the June 2 edition of The New Yorker, and saw that Sepia, in New York, is showing Indian painted photographs through July 12. You can see ten fascinating examples here. Here's one, of Maharana Fateh Singh of Udaipur, 1890s:

According to the press release:

The “artist-photographer” emerged in India in the mid 19th century, drawing upon the preexisting artistic traditions of miniature painting and combining those with the new medium of photography. Black and white photography, for the most part purely descriptive in nature, became infused with color and detail ...