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¹ Jahangir, vol. ii, p. 20. Dr. Martin records the death of this artist at Bukhara in A.D. 1573, but history on these matters is notoriously incorrect. It is more likely that at this date he left Persia to seek fresh patronage at the rising court of the Mughals, and so disappeared from the Persian chronicles. In an article in the Burlington Magazine, No. CCXV, vol. xxxviii, February 1921, Sir Thomas Arnold has endeavoured to prove that Riza Abbasi, Ali Riza, and Aqa Riza, were one and the same person. Jahangir's reference to the last named may, however, throw additional light on this subject.