About Ghulam Murtaza Khan
Lived 1760 – 1840 (aged 79–80). Ghulam Murtaza Khan was a painter.
Ghulam Murtaza Khan (1760–1840) is a Mughal era, 19th century painter from Delhi. He worked under penultimate Mughal emperor Akbar Shah II. He worked under British officers, Skinner and William Fraser. The painting style was known as company style.
Biography Ghulam Murtaza Khan did portraits of the imperial family and was also employed by the British after they took over Delhi in 1803. His nephew was the accomplished Mughal painter, Ghulam Ali Khan, who worked on the classic, Fraser Album.
He did not change his typical Mughal style, the refined style of the seventeenth-century. His style display a restrained naturalism like the formality of compositions during the reign of emperor Shah Jahan.
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Who was Ghulam Murtaza Khan?
Indian painter
When was Ghulam Murtaza Khan born?
Ghulam Murtaza Khan was born in 1760 in Delhi.
When did Ghulam Murtaza Khan die?
Ghulam Murtaza Khan died in 1840 in Delhi.
What was Ghulam Murtaza Khan's occupation?
Ghulam Murtaza Khan was a painter.
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