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A drawing of Major General Sir Malik Umar Hyat Khan Tiwana, mounted, and facing front; wearing a tabard; with others on horseback behind.

Major General Sir Nawab Malik Umar Hayat Khan Tiwana was a landowner of large areas of the Punjab. He served with the British forces in the Somaliland War (1902-4), the British invasion of Tibet (1903-4), and on the Western Front during World War I, in which he was Mentioned in Despatches on six occasions. During his service he was attached to the 18th King George's Own Lancers, and later to the 19th King George V's Own Lancers, becoming their colonel in 1930. He was also honorary aide-de-camp to both King George V, and King Edward VIII. He was an elected member of the Council of the State of India from 1924 to 1934. (Source: National Portrait Gallery). See also RCIN 760456.

In December 1911 King George V and Queen Mary were proclaimed Emperor and Empress of India at the Delhi Durbar. (A durbar is a court or official reception held, traditionally, by an Indian ruler.) Almost all of the ruling princes and noblemen of India, in addition to thousands of other Indian dignitaries, attended in order to pay obeisance to the symbolic heads of British colonial power. As part of their tour of British India, the royal couple visited Calcutta on 30th December. On 5th January the Calcutta Pageant was mounted in their honour at the Maidan (nicknamed the Hyde Park of Calcutta). See RCIN 931140, 931141. This portrait of Major General Sir Malik Umar Hyat Khan Tiwana is probably among the drawings made during the royal visit to Calcutta. Many of them were subsequently mounted in an album alongside drawings produced during the royal tour of the British Empire in 1901.

The artist and illustrator George Percy Jacomb-Hood trained at the Slade School of Art and in Paris before becoming artist-correspondent of The Graphic. It was in this role that he accompanied several royal visits to India at the start of the century. In October 1911 he travelled as part of the Royal suite to India on HMS Medina with King George V and Queen Mary.