…the frowning face of the young Abul Hasan, who would become Jahangir’s favourite painter, painted by Daulat. From the Gulshan Album, 1600
Also from Gulshan Album, Prince Selim:
And the illustrations in the Gulshan Album of the interest in Christianity wide-spread in Jahangir’s court:
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Tags: Abul Hasan, Gulshan Album, Herat, India, Indian painting, Jahangir, Mughal miniatures, Mughal painting, Mughals, Persia, Prince Selim
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