Asian Art Newspaper, March 2008

EXHIBITION OF INDIAN MINIATURE PAINTINGS, NEW YORK

"London-based dealers Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch are exhibiting a group of Indian Miniature paintings [including an] exceptional leaf from an Imperial Mughal manuscript, the Akbarnama or story of Akbar's life and deeds."

Arts of Asia, March-April 2008

NEW YORK EXHIBITORS

".. Oliver Forge & Brendan Lynch will exhibit a group of Indian miniature paintings at 9 East 82nd Street from March 15th to 22nd ... among the finest paintings is a detail depicting the Emperor Humayun painted by the Mughal artist Mukund in circa 1595."

The Art Newspaper, no.163, November 2005

NEW EXHIBITORS ADD FRESH, CONTEMPORARY FEEL TO ESTABLISHED ASIAN ART WEEK

".. Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch, whose exhibition combines traditional Indian and Islamic art with paintings by the Sri Lankan artist George Claessen, who died in 1999. The gallery carries off the Antique Trade Gazette Award for the most outstanding work of art on display - a page from an Indian manuscript, the Battle of Sarnal, 1595-1600..."

Antiques Trade Gazette, 22nd October 2005 (Asian Art in London colour supplement)

FROM THE ATG AWARD SHORTLIST

"[Colour illustration of] a late 16th century Mughal Indian miniature depicting the battle of Sarnal in Gujarat. A brightly colour[ed] leaf from the 'Third' Akbarnama manuscript", Forge and Lynch, 10 Bury Street, SW1..."

Asian Art Newspaper, October 2005 (Asian Art in London colour supplement)

"Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch specialise in antiquities, Islamic and Indian art and are exhibiting Islamic and Indian works of art and paintings sourced from collections in Britain and Europe during Asian Art in London. Highlights of their exhibition include a pair of ivory-inlaid ebony figures of mythical lions from Sri Lanka, dated 1848, [illustrated in colour] and a portrait of an elephant, Isarda school, Rajasthan, circa 1720, [illustrated in colour] amongst other works of art."

Orientations, October 2005

p.81: "Oliver Forge and Brendan Lynch Ltd., consultants in Antiquities and Islamic and Indian art, have on display a watercolour portrait of an elephant attributed to the Isarda School, Rajasthan, circa 1720, which would appear to be one of 37 elephant drawings, the reverse stamped with the name of a previous owner. Of interest to the collector-cricketer is a huge silver gelatine photograph of 'Raji', (Ranjitsinhji, Maharaja Jam Saheb of Nawanagar), an Indian prince who became famous in England and India in the early 20th century as a champion cricketer and after whom the Ranji Trophy was named. The portrait was done by the prestigious Vandyk Studios in London which attracted many Indian princes between 1910-1930; it is stamped with their logo and still in its original frame.[illustrated]"