A watercolour portrait of Arakan Raja, Chief of the Bor Khamti country. He is seated on a cushion and holds a pipe in his right hand; wearing a turban, a multi-coloured sarong, and a white shirt. Signed and dated. Inscribed below: Irukun Rajah. Chief of the Bor Kamti Country. Upper Burma. / with the annexation of Burmah his territory became British. 

Arakan [Rakhine state, part of Myanmar] was ceded to the British East India Company in 1826, and British Burma was constituted in 1862. After the Third Anglo-Burmese war of 1885, Upper Burma was annexed and this Raja's territory was taken over by the British.

This is a watercolour from the Indian sketches album comprising watercolours and drawings by Egron Lundgren, Nicholas Chevalier, Count Gotz Burkhard Seckendorff and Robert Gosset Woodthorpe. Most of Lundgren's works within the album are set against a backdrop of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, and were presented to Queen Victoria. Chevalier's watercolours represent high-ranking Sikh and Ceylonese [Sri Lankan] people who would have sat to the artist during his visits to India and Ceylon while journeying with Prince Alfred, the Duke of Edinburgh, on the homeward voyage aboard HMS Galatea in 1870.