Indian Sculpture and Painting, Illustrated by Typical Masterpieces, with an Explanation of their Motives and Ideals c12.24

c12.24

An important branch of the court artists' training was to learn to draw from memory traditional portraits, such as those of the Emperor's ancestors, or of other great historical personages for whose likeness there was a regular demand. A collection of these historical portrait types, derived sometimes from old contemporary portraits, and sometimes from the artist's own imagination, was part of the stock-in-trade of an Indian miniature painter.