50 artworks from the collection of Charles Greig, a British academic and expert in Indian art, have been donated to the Tate . The collection includes oil paintings, watercolors and miniatures by artists who lived and worked in India during the 18th and 19th centuries.

The museum described the gift as an “entirely philanthropic act,” with Greig donating the works outright and without the use of tax incentives. Greig built the collection over four decades and features artists such as Sita Ram and Ghulam Ali Khan—who capitalized on the new market for their work among British East India Company officials—as well as European artists such as Johan Zoffany and Rudolf Swoboda, and British landscapists like William Hodges, Thomas Daniell and William Daniell.…