“Painters, Ports, and Profits: Artists and the East India Company, 1750-1850,” Yale Center for British Art, through June 21, 2026. The British East India Company was an ordinary merchant venture founded in 1600 that, over the next two centuries, became as much a corporation as a military and administrative state. The company’s expansive charter permitted war, diplomacy, and territorial annexation, so long as these served its commercial designs over the vast territory bestowed on it by the