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Sri Lanka: Kandyan aristocrat John Henry Meedeniya (1867-1931), also known as J. H. Meedeniya Adigar, with his family in 1905. In 1592 Kandy became the capital city of the last remaining independent
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Lot - British School, Last Half 19th Century, Family Portrait of Young Boy Mounted on Black Horse, oil on canvas, 30-14 x 38 in
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