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The Indian portrait, 1560-1860

The role of the portrait in India between 1560 and 1860 served as an official chronicle or eye-witness account, as a means of revealing the intimate moments of everyday life, and as a tool for propaganda. Yet the proliferation and mastery of Indian portraiture in the Mughal and Rajput courts brought a new level of artistry and style to the genre

Print Book, English, ©2010
National Portrait Gallery Publications, National Portrait Gallery, London, ©2010