Lahora Singh

Lahora Singh (born 1865) was a Sikh artist. He was the disciple of Mohammad Bakhsh Musawar, whom was the father of Khalifa Imam-ud-din. Early in his career, Lahora Singh worked in the Gumti Bazār, the artists' quarter of Lahore, but later would shift his base-of-operations to Dabbi Bazār in Lahore. Whilst based in Gumti Bazār, Lahora worked alongside Abdur Rahman Chughtai. Lahora also produced a complete and illustrated Janamsakhi work covering the traditional life-stories of Guru Nanak. His unique Janamsakhi illustrations are monochromatic and didactic in-purpose. A collection of his Janamsakhi artwork is kept in the collection of the Museum of Punjab Government Archives in Patiala. A surviving lithograph of the ten Sikh gurus was kept in the personal collection of Hakim Gurcharan Singh of Amritsar. Some surviving works of Lahora can be found in the Patiala Museum and in the private collections of the Kapurthala royals.

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