Portrait of an old man, a presumed self-portrait (detail). Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Farrukh Beg (Persian: فرخ بیگ; c. 1547 – after 1615), also known as Farrukh Husayn, was a Persian miniature painter, who spent a bulk of his career in Safavid Iran and Mughal India, praised by Mughal Emperor Jahangir as "unrivaled in the age."[1][2]
Farrukh Beg was credited with painting a plethora of Persian and Mughal paintings, a handful of which survive today. His work showed his distinct training in Persian manuscript painting, which later on evolved to include more experimental techniques such as atmospheric perspective and modeling.[3]
Beg had produced miniature paintings under the patronage of five known rulers in West Asia and South Asia: Ibrahim Mirza of Safavid Mashhad, Mirza Muhammad Hakim of Kabul, Akbar in Mughal India and later his son Jahangir, and Ibrahim Adil Shah II of the Sultanate of Bijapur.[4] His distinct style came to be revered by his contemporaries and patrons, due to a distinct homogeneity, evolving as a result of his Persian training and experiences in cosmopolitan Mughal courts.[5]
His life was later mired in mystery due to his sudden hiatus from the Mughal court sometime after 1595, rejoining the Mughal atelier around 1609.[1] Evidence has shown he spent a bulk of this time in Bijapur under the patronage of Ibrahim Adil Shah II of the Sultanate of Bijapur.[1]
^ abc"Farrukh Beg," The Grove encyclopedia of Islamic art and architecture. Jonathan Bloom, Sheila Blair. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-530991-1. OCLC 232605788.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
^Verma, S. P. (1978). "FARRUKH BEG—THE MUGHAL COURT PAINTER". Proceedings of the Indian History Congress. 39: 360–367. ISSN 2249-1937. JSTOR 44139370.
^Seyller, John (1995). "Farrukh Beg in the Deccan". Artibus Asiae. 55 (3/4): 319–341. doi:10.2307/3249754. ISSN 0004-3648. JSTOR 3249754.
^Overton, Keelan (2017-01-01). "Farrukh Ḥusayn". Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE. doi:10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_com_27826.
^Guy, John (September 2011). "Wonder of the Age: Painting, Patronage and Global Vision in Early Mughal India". Orientations. 42, Issue. 2: 82–89.
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