Aqa Riza

(b ?Mashhad; fl c. 1580-c. 1610). Iranian painter active in India. He joined the service of Prince Salim (later the Mughal emperor Jahangir (reg 1605-27) ) sometime before 1588; his son was the great painter ABU'L-HASAN. Various inscriptions tell us that Aqa Riza came from Mashhad and that another of his sons was the painter `ABID. Whereas Abu'l-Hasan developed consistently as a painter, Aqa Riza's style remained basically consistent with his Safavid origins, a style of calligraphically drawn lines and surface pattern-making, with a few gestures

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