A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c20.s2.4

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The four Muhammadans named are:—(1) Mīr Sayyid Ali, the illustrator of the story of Amīr Hamzah, whose work probably is represented by the two large pictures in B.M. Or. 3600 (*ante*, p. 468); (2) Khwājah Abdul Samad (*ante*, p. 452); (3) Farrukh the Qalmāk (Calmuck); and (4) Miskīn (*ante*, p. 464). Farrukh certainly deserves high praise. He contributed good work to the Clarke MS. of the *Akbarnāmah*, and was the author of a remarkable painting in three scenes occupying a full page on the reverse of folio 13 of B.M. Or. 3714. Miskīn, who drew the outlines of two pictures (1/117, 89/117) in the Clarke MS., seems to be identical with the Ustād (*scil.* 'Master') Miskīn who painted the Good Shepherd in the Johnson Collection and the Muhammad Miskīn, author of a lady's portrait in the same collection (LVIII, 15). Both those works are early in style.