Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya
Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya (fl. 1830s-40s) was a Bengali Muslim painter in the British Raj period from Karraya in Ballygunge, a suburb in Calcutta.
Also recorded as Shaykh Muhammad Amir
Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya
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- Muhammad Amir
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- Painter
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- A Syce
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• Honorific Prefix — Shaykh • Name — Muhammad Amir • Years Active — 1830s-40s • Occupation — Painter • Native Name — শেখ মুহম্মদ আমির • Citizenship — Bengal Presidency • Illustration — A Syce (Groom) Holding Two Carriage Horses.
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• Illustration — English child seated on a pony and surrounded by three Indian servants His patron was Thomas Halroyd. Fanny Parks lithographed some of Amir's paintings into her 1850 book Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque. Some of his paintings can be found at the India Office Records in London's British Library. 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. 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.
A Syce (Groom) Holding Two Carriage Horses, ca. 1845, by Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya
Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York · Louis E. and Theresa S. Seley Purchase Fund for Islamic Art and Rogers Fund, 1994
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- 1.British Library. Calcutta house surrounded by a garden with tank and out-houses.
- 2.Trip down memory lane to British Raj: The Met presents Company School paintings. Architectural Design Interior Design Home Decoration Magazine AD India. 18 July 2017.
- 3.Painting - A groom with a horse and carriage - Victoria & Albert Museum. Search the Collections.
- 4.Welch, Stuart Cary. From mind, heart, and hand : Persian, Turkish, and Indian drawings from the Stuart Cary Welch collection. 213. 2004.
- 5.Pal, Pratapaditya. Changing Visions, Lasting Images: Calcutta Through 300 Years. Mãrg. Marg Publications. 41. 1988.
- 6.Khan Majlis, Najma. Amir, Shaykh Muhammad.
- 7.Metropolitan Museum of Art. A Syce (Groom) Holding Two Carriage Horses.
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