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Portrait of Third Mughal Emperor Akbar - Mughal Painting, Circa 18th Century

This painting depicts the third Mughal Emperor Akbar (r. 963 AH / 1556 CE -- 1014 AH / 1605 CE). It was executed in Mughal India in the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE. Akbar is shown seated on a throne and holding the crown in his hands. The inscription in Devanagari script on the left side identifies the sitter as Akbar. The image is framed by salmon and blue borders with illuminated floral motifs.

Credit: thedigitalwalters.org

Portrait of Lal Kunwar, the beloved of the eighth Mughal Emperor Jahandār Shāh - Mughal Painting Circa 18th century

This Mughal color-wash drawing, dating to the twelfth century AH / eighteenth CE, depicts Lāl Kunwar, the beloved of the eighth Mughal Emperor Jahandār Shāh (d. 1125 AH / 1713 CE). Originally a dancing girl, she became Jahandār's concubine and later the queen consort. Contemporary historians noted Jahandār Shāh's decadent lifestyle and his devotion to the female entertainer Lāl Kunwar, who is named in the inscription at the top of the page. Reportedly, Lāl Kunwar had much influence at Jahandār's court. The seals in the upper corners of the page were added later.

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Portrait of a Ruler - Miniature Painting, Circa 18th Century

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A Lady Holding a Flower - Mughal Painting, 17th century

Credit: sothebys.com

Portrait of a Man - Miniature Painting, Deccan, 18th Century

Potrait of a Man - Miniature Painting, Deccan, 18th Century

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A Lady Playing the Tanpura - Rajput Painting, Kishangarh, c1735

Medium: Ink, opaque and transparent watercolor, and gold on paper
Source: metmuseum.org

Raj Singh of Bhiwai - Rajput Painting, Jaipur, circa 1780

Medium: Watercolour on untreated wasli
Source: indianminiaturepaintings.co.uk

The Malabari Beauty - Lithograph Print, Early 20th Century

Source: British Museum

Portrait of Beautiful Indian Lady - Indian Lithograph Print

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Maharaja Suraj Mal with a Hawk - Pahari Painting c1730 - 1740

Suraj Mal (r.1613-1618) was an early Nurpur ruler who died in exile after rebelling against the emperor Jahangir. In this posthumous portrait of the jharoka window type, the veteran warrior strokes the breast of his prize hawk. Pahari rulers were often portrayed with a hawk or falcon, as a mark of their hunting prowess and regal demeanour.

Medium: Gouache with gold on paper
Source: ashmolean.org

Hamida Banu Begum, wife of Mughal Emperor Humayun. Anglo-Indian school at Lucknow - circa late 19th century

Medium: Opaque watercolour on warqa, laid down on later card
The inscription translates "Hamida Banu Begum, zauja (wife) Shah Jahan Badshah (king)". Collectors and dealers are usually pleased to find an old inscription on a painting, assuming it to be correct, but this is often - like here - not the case, in this instance having a husband still to be born! Identification of portraits Mughal Emperors' wives are notoriously difficult to identify due to the artists never having seen them, meaning they instead painted imaginary likenesses according to contemporary notions of beauty.
Hamida Banu Begum's legacy is the mausoleum she commissioned, Humayun's Tomb, following his death.

Source: indianminiaturepaintings.co.uk

Portrait of Radha and Krishna - Vintage Calender Print

Source: ebay.com

Portrait of a woman wearing Mughal costume and jewellery - 19th Century

Source: Wellcome Library ( wellcome.ac.uk )

An European woman in Mughal costume and jewellery - 19th Century

Source: Wellcome Library ( wellcome.ac.uk )

Portraits by Jyotirindranath Tagore - Late 19th Century to Early 20th Century

Jyotirindranath Tagore (May 4, 1849 – March 4, 1925) was a playwright, a musician, an editor and a painter.Endowed with an outstanding talent, he had the rare capability of spotting talent in others. He played a major role in the flowering of the talents in his younger brother, the first Asian Nobel Prize winner Rabindranath Tagore.
He was an avid portrait artist, who worked almost exclusively by pencil on paper. Apart from the members of the Tagore family, he almost drew everybody who visited him at Calcutta or his Morabadi Hill residence at Ranchi. In 1914, twenty-five of his exquisite portrait drawings were printed by by Sir Emery walker of London in collotype method. the album carried a sensitive Foreword by William Rothenstein. The book was titled "Twenty-five Collotypes from the Original Drawings by Jyotirindranath Tagore", 1914.

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