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Isnt it an interesting picture ? It is a Mughal painting of Warren Hastings.

Wonderful. Any clue who the painter is?

may not be either---Mughal miniatures are characterized by "hasias" on all four sides which are beautifully illustrated---and generally very ornate---even the time period is incorrect--by now the "kampani kalam" was in and Indian painters --both Hindus and Muslims had moved out of traditional centres due to lack of patronage from the Mughal descendants

Rohini: The name of the artist is not given in the picture. I was wondering what the attendant could be doing ? There is hardly a need for a barber, so it must be "tel-maalish" i.e., oil massage of His Excellency's head. Most Europeans in India had great times those days; each had up to two dozen attendants and one dozen wives (but Hastings was not one of them). The line beneath the picture says something about "aqil-e-awwal" meaning first-class intellect.

I agree with Suhag Shirodkar that this is evidently Company art....even though the source attributed it to Mughal art.

" Kampany kalam" is Company art