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Indian painter From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Farrukh Chela (active from 1580 or 1585-1604) was an Indian miniature painter during the reign of Akbar, the third Mughal Emperor.[1][2][3] As a prolific artist, he contributed to most of the major illustrated manuscripts at the Mughal court.[3]
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Known for | Painting, miniatures |
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Chela's works are part of collections in the United States of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cincinnati Art Museum,[4] Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, and Walters Art Museum in Baltimore, and in Ireland of Chester Beatty (Library) in Dublin.
Although Farrukh Chela was not considered a great artist either in his own time (the A'-in-i-Akbari does not include him among the seventeen foremost artists of the period) or in recent years, his style is so distinctive and idiosyncratic that it invites both interest and close examination.
A good number of paintings produced in the court of Akbar bear names of artists who call themselves as chela.
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