Ghulam Murtaza Khan (1760–1840) is a Mughal era, 19th century painter from Delhi. He worked under penultimate Mughal emperor Akbar Shah II.[1] He worked under British officers, Skinner and William Fraser. The painting style was known as company style.[2][3]
Biography
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.[4]
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.
References
- ↑ The Asia Society – Princes and Painters Exhibit.
- ↑ Visual Tour of White Mughal India. Retrieved 6 September 2016.
- ↑ Paintings bring Moghul Delhi alive. The Hindu(16 July 2007).
- ↑ Art and an empire. The Hindu(6 February 2013).