Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya
Muhammad Amir | |
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শেখ মুহম্মদ আমির | |
| Citizenship | File:Flag of British Bengal.svg Bengal Presidency |
| Occupation | Painter |
| Years active | 1830s-40s |
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Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya (Bengali: শেখ মুহম্মদ আমির; fl. 1830s-40s) was a Bengali Muslim painter in the British Raj period from Karraya in Ballygunge, a suburb in Calcutta.[1][2][3]
Career
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His patron was Thomas Halroyd.[4] Fanny Parks lithographed some of Amir's paintings into her 1850 book Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque.[5] Some of his paintings can be found at the India Office Records in London's British Library.[6] The work A Syce (Groom) Holding Two Carriage Horses in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is also attributed to Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya.[7]
Another work by Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya is A Bay Racehorse with a Groom (ca.1842), which was recently acquired by the Yale Center for British Art. It may be viewed in the museum's Study Room by appointment.
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