Footnotes

• Mir Kalan Khan was a mid-18th Century artist trained in Delhi or the Deccan and it was at one of these places that he was much influenced by the engravings of the Dutch and Flemish masters that were brought from Europe to India as gifts from the reign of the Mughal Emperor Akbar onwards. Mir Kalan Khan later moved to Lucknow and Faizabad, establishing this particular style, which is almost unique to himself, from around 1760. The central figure kneeling before the Madonna and Child was probably the patron of the European original. It was common practice in European painting to include the patron in the composition.
  
  For further references to Mir Kalan Khan see:
  E. Binney, 'The Mughal and Deccani Schools: Indian Miniature Painting from the Collection of Edwin Binney, 3rd', Portland, Oregon 1973, no. 80.
  T. Falk and M. Archer, 'Indian Miniatures in the India Office Library', London 1981, pp. 136-137, no. 238.

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Category: Fine Art / Old Master Paintings

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