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George Francklin Atkinson (1822–1859), was a British artist and writer and an officer of the Bengal Engineers.[1] His paintings depicted colonial life and military battles, mainly in India.[2]
He was the son of James Atkinson who was also an artist, as well as a surgeon and a Persian scholar.[1] Atkinson served with the Bengal Engineers between 1840 and 1859, and witnessed the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857.[2]