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Daswanth [Dasavanta]
( fl c. 1560; d 1584). Indian miniature painter. His name indicates that he was a Hindu. He was a favourite artist of the Mughal emperor Akbar (reg 1556–1605), who discovered his talent and sent him to the master painter `Abd al-Samad for training. In the Ayin-i Akbari, a contemporary record of the reign, Abu al-Fazl wrote that in ‘a short time he surpassed all painters and became the first master of the age’ (Eng. trans., p. 114). He is known mainly for his highly imaginative and original compositions, where the irrational tends to dominate the realistic. Contemporary writers described him as a madman, and Abu al-Fazl acknowledged that some critics preferred the more naturalistic work of the painter Basawan.
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