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{{Infobox person<br />
| name = Ghulam Murtaza Khan<br />
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| birth_date = 1760<br />
| birth_place = [[Delhi]]<br />
| death_date = 1840 (aged 80)<br />
| death_place = [[Mughal India]]<br />
| known_for = portraits <br />
| style = [[Mughal art|Mughal]]<br />
| notable_works =''[[Mughal paintings]]''<br />
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'''Ghulam Murtaza Khan''' (1760–1840) is a Mughal era, 19th century painter from [[Delhi]]. He worked under penultimate Mughal emperor [[Akbar Shah II]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sites.asiasociety.org/princesandpainters/the-last-atelier-gulam-ali-khan/|title=The Asia Society – Princes and Painters Exhibit|publisher=|accessdate=6 September 2016}}</ref> He worked under British officers, Skinner and [[William Fraser (British India civil servant)|William Fraser]]. The painting style was known as [[company style]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/opinion/nikita-puri/story/visual-tour-of-white-mughal-india-117416-2012-09-29|title=Visual Tour of White Mughal India|publisher=|access-date=6 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/paintings-bring-moghul-delhi-alive/article2250556.ece|title=Paintings bring Moghul Delhi alive|date=16 July 2007|publisher=|accessdate=6 September 2016|newspaper=The Hindu}}</ref><br />
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==Biography==<br />
Ghulam Murtaza Khan did portraits of the imperial family and was also employed by the British after they took over Delhi in 1803. His nephew was the accomplished Mughal painter, [[Ghulam Ali Khan]], who worked on the classic, [[Fraser Album]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-features/tp-metroplus/art-and-an-empire/article4384080.ece|title=Art and an empire|date=6 February 2013|publisher=|accessdate=6 September 2016|newspaper=The Hindu}}</ref><br />
[[File:Ghulam Murtaza Khan The Delhi Darbar of Akbar II.jpg|thumb|The Delhi Darbar by Ghulam Murtaza Khan]]<br />
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He did not change his typical Mughal style, the refined style of the seventeenth-century. His style display a restrained naturalism like the formality of compositions during the reign of emperor [[Shah Jahan]].<br />
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