Bishandas

Active ca. 1590–ca. 1640

Daulat. Portrait in an album border, about 1610. Detail.

Bishandas served the future emperor Jahangir at Allahabad and continued at his court in Agra. From 1613 to 1619 he travelled in Iran with a Mughal delegation. The museum connects his portrait of Saru Taqi with observations or sketches from that visit.

Works

Attributed to Bishandas

Nur Jahan holding a portrait of Emperor Jahangir

Sources

Source · www.britishmuseum.org
Source · asia.si.edu
Source · clevelandart.org
Portrait attribution

Daulat · Daulat, portrait of Bishandas, c.1610, Golestan Palace Library, Tehran; public-domain reproduction via Wikimedia Commons (image supplied by @dpanikkar, uploaded by MaplesyrupSushi) · Golestan Palace Library, Tehran; identified in The Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogue Wonder of the Age (2011), figure 1, p.8; public-domain detail reproduction via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain (faithful reproduction of public-domain two-dimensional artwork) Portrait source · Licence