Location
The Picture Gallery is a well-maintained regal structure of red brick, situated beyond a gleaming pool with huddles of pink lotuses and some pleasingly set palm trees strewn around the banks. Built in the 19th century by Muhammad Ali Shah, the gallery houses oil paintings and photographs of the erstwhile Nawabs.
These portraits serve as a good medium to impart in depth information about Lucknow’s past. What makes this portraits so special is the fact that, the eyes, tip of the sword and the boot would be pointed towards the onlooker, no matter from which ever angle the spectator looks at the painting.