Bichitr
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Bichitr () was an Indian painter during the Mughal period, patronized by the emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan. The earliest known painting of his is a mature work from c. 1615.
Key facts
- Artist.name
- Bichitr
- Artist.image
- Details of the self-portrait of Bichitr (close-up of the Mughal miniature painting "Jahangir preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings", c. 1615-18).png
- Artist.caption
- Self-portrait from Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings, (detail)
- Artist.style
- Mughal
- Artist.patrons
- Jahangir and Shah Jahan
- Artist.notable_works
- Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Mughal Empire
- Occupation
- painter
- Position held
- court painter
- Genre
- portrait
- Image
- Details of the self-portrait of Bichitr (close-up of the Mughal miniature painting "Jahangir preferring a Sufi Shaikh to Kings", c. 1615-18).png
- Work location
- India
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- date of birth
- 1600-01-01
- Commons Creator page
- Bichitr
- Commons category
- Bichitr
- date of death
- 1660-00-00
- has works in the collection
- Chester Beatty Library
Sources (2)
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- Works
- Style
- Gallery
- References
Bichitr () was an Indian painter during the Mughal period, patronized by the emperors Jahangir and Shah Jahan. The earliest known painting of his is a mature work from c. 1615.
Most of his paintings are formal portraits, and a large number of portraits in the 1630s are credited to him. Stuart Cary Welch, noting that he painted the likeness of nearly every important personage from this period, calls him "the Mughal Van Dyke". He was active until the 1640s at least. Milo C. Beach concludes from Bichitr's clothing in self-portraits that Bichitr was Hindu.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bichitr” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.