Daswanth
Daswanth or Dasavant (d. 1584) was a Mughal dynasty painter in the service of Akbar.
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He was a Hindu, probably of humble origin and was trained by the Persian master Khwāja ʿAbd al-Ṣamad. Of the large number of painters who worked in the imperial atelier, Daswanth and Basāvan were documented by name.
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Daswanth played the leading part in the illustration of the Jaipur originating family of folk tales called Razm-nāmeh, which is the Persian name for the Indian epic known as the Mahabharata.
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A miniature in the Cleveland Museum of Art’s manuscript copy of the Ṭūṭī-nāmeh (“Parrot Book”) has also been attributed to him.[1]
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Daswanth also illustrated one miniature in 'Tarikh-i-khandan-i-Timuriya' of Patna with other Artist Jagjiwan kalan.[2] Of unstable mind, he killed himself in a fit of madness.[3]
References
- Daswanth - Painter in Bénézit
- Milo beach (1982). The Mughal painter Daswanth. Washington: Freer gallery of art. pp. 121 and fig 1.
- Dasvant in the Encyclopædia Britannica