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Farrukh Beg
Recipe for a prosperous life: make the emperor look good

Farrukh Beg, The ArtistsSultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II Khan Hunting with a Hawk
Portrait of Farrukh Beg

Farrukh Beg was an Iranian artist born in 1545. Beg contributed to the Mughal movement and died in 1615.

Akbar's Triumphal Entry into Surat Akbarnama, Farrukh Beg

Akbar's Triumphal Entry into Surat Akbarnama

1590-1595
Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II Khan Hunting with a Hawk, Farrukh Beg

Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II Khan Hunting with a Hawk

1590-1595
Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II Riding His Prized Elephant Atash Khan, Farrukh Beg

Sultan Ibrahim Adil Shah II Riding His Prized Elephant Atash Khan

1600
Sufis in a Landscape, Farrukh Beg

Sufis in a Landscape

1601-1604
A Sufi Sage, The Personification of Melancholia, Farrukh Beg

A Sufi Sage, The Personification of Melancholia

1615
Bichitr, The Artists

Bichitr

Portraits of power

1585-1660
15011700
Intimate portraitist and confidant to the queen
Sofonisba Anguissola
Finally, a renaissance master with soul
El Greco Farrukh Beg
Matriarch of the family business
Lavinia Fontana
Barbara Longhi

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