India’s rulers star in portrait show
12 April 2012
Grand portraits of Mughal emperors, and studies of courtiers, holy men and Europeans living in India, are going on show in the first exhibition of its kind at the National Portrait Gallery.
Indian Portrait 1560-1860 includes 60 works covering 300 years. It features two pages, lent by the Queen, from the Padshahnama, the chronicle of the reign of Shah Jahan, the fifth Mughal emperor who commissioned the Taj Mahal.
Sandy Nairne, the gallery's director, said: "These exquisite depictions are wrought with dazzling skill."
It runs from 11 March until 20 June.
