Mazhar Ali Khan (painter)
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| birth_place = Delhi
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| death_place = Mughal India
| known_for = Topographical paintings, portraits
| style = Company style
| notable_works =Delhi Book
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Mazhar Ali Khan was a late-Mughal era, 19th century painter from Delhi, working in the Company style of post-Mughal painting under Western influence. He was active from 1840, and is known for his noted work of topographical paintings commissioned by Sir Thomas Metcalfe's, Delhi Book.[https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2003/aug/16/art.highereducation William Dalrymple on The Dehlie Book | Art and design | The Guardian]
Life
He was born in Delhi. He received the rigorous Mughal training, and became a part of a dynasty of great miniature artists.
=The works=
While working in India as the Governor-General's Agent at the Imperial court of the Mughal Emperor, between 1842 and 1844, Metcalfe ordered a series of images of the monuments, ruins, palaces and shrines from Delhi artist, Mazhar Ali Khan. He executed 100 paintings which made it to the book.
Gallery
File:Chandni Chowk, detail from the 'The Delhi Panorama', by Mazhar Ali Khan, 1846.jpg|Chandni Chowk, detail from 'The Delhi Panorama', by Mazhar Ali Khan, 1846
File:The Delhi Gate, detail from the 'The Delhi Panorama', by Mazhar Ali Khan, 1846.jpg|The Delhi Gate, detail from 'The Delhi Panorama', by Mazhar Ali Khan, 1846
File:The Lahore Gate, detail from the 'The Delhi Panorama', by Mazhar Ali Khan, 1846.jpg|The Lahore Gate, detail from 'The Delhi Panorama', by Mazhar Ali Khan, 1846
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Category:Painters from the Mughal Empire
Category:Indian portrait painters
Category:19th-century Indian painters