Indian Painting under the Mughals, A.D. 1550 to A.D. 1750 c14.46.4

c14.46.4

For Akbar ordered his artists to make copies of these pictures, and to endeavour, if possible, to excel them, in his zeal to improve the standard of their work. It is no exaggeration, therefore, to say that what the National Gallery is to the English art student, so was the imperial library of the Mughals to the artists of their time.