Frederick Charles Maisey


Frederick Charles Maisey was an English army officer, archaeological surveyor and painter, active in India. His main painting technique was pen and ink, and watercolour.

Early life

Maisey was son of Thomas Maisey, of Portland Place, Marylebone, London, a painter and lithographer- sometime drawing master at schools in Cheam and in Kensington- who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and was a founding member, later president, of the New Watercolour Society.

Career

Maisey was a lieutenant in the British Army circa 1850 in the Bengal Native Infantry, and participated to the British exploration of India.
Maisey was in charge of the excavation of Sanchi in 1851, working with fellow English officer Alexander Cunningham. In 1852 he also made the earliest painting of the Temples at Khajuraho.
Maisey reached the rank of General on December 1, 1888.
His son, also Frederick Charles Maisey, became a lieutenant-colonel, whose career included serving with the 30th Punjab Infantry. In 1895- whilst serving in the campaign to relieve Chitral- he excavated the Buddhist site of Dargai at the southern foot of the Malakand Pass in Pakistan.

Works