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Flourished c.1601 - c.1700 • India
Movement / Style Mughal painting

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Shah Jahan
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Basavan
Mughal painter
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Bishandas
Indian painter
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Daulat
Indian painter
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Abu al-Hasan
Indian painter
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Govardhan
Indian painter
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Manohar
Indian painter
“Joshua and the Fall of Jericho” from Flavius Josephus' Antiquités judaïques, manuscript illuminated by Jean Fouquet, c. 1474; in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris (Ms. Fr. 247)
Jean Fouquet
French painter
Portrait of a Woman, watercolour on ivory by Anna Claypoole Peale, 1818; in the Art Institute of Chicago.
Anna Claypoole Peale
American painter
Fassett, Cornelia Adele Strong
Cornelia Adele Strong Fassett
American painter
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Jean-Baptiste Isabey
French painter
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Āqā Mīrak
Persian painter
“Mejnūn Being Brought by a Beggar Woman to Leylā's Tent,” miniature by Mīr Sayyid ʿAlī in the Khamseh of Neẓāmī done for Shāh Ṭahmāsp I, 1539–43; in the British Library (OR. MS. 2265 fol 157v)
Mīr Sayyid ʿAli
Persian painter
Santhal musicians and dancers
Jamini Roy
Indian artist
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Sāhibdīn
Indian painter
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Dasvant
Indian painter
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Manṣūr
Indian painter
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Farrukh Beg
Mughal painter
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David Octavius Hill
Scottish painter
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Joseph Severn
artist
Rembrandt: Self-Portrait
Rembrandt
Dutch artist

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