Frederick Charles Maisey

Frederick Charles Maisey (1825–1892) was an English army officer, archaeological surveyor and painter, active in India.

[2][1] His main painting technique was pen and ink, and watercolour.

[1] Maisey was son of Thomas Maisey (1787-1840), of Portland Place, Marylebone, London, a painter and lithographer- sometime drawing master at schools in Cheam and in Kensington-[3] who exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts and was a founding member (treasurer),[4] later president,[5] of the New Watercolour Society.

[2][9] Maisey was in charge of the excavation of Sanchi in 1851, working with fellow English officer Alexander Cunningham.

[2][11] His son, also Frederick Charles Maisey, born on 7 July 1851, became a lieutenant-colonel in the British Army.