( fl Herat, c. 1520-30, Bukhara, c. 1530-40). Persian painter. The Ottoman chronicler Mustafa `Ali, the only 16th-century source to mention Shaykhzada, said he was a pupil of BIHZAD and came from Khurasan. One painting, Episode in a Mosque (priv. col., see Welch, 1976, pl. 16) from a copy of Hafiz's Divan ('Collected poems'; c. 1526-7; divided, Cambridge, MA, Sackler Mus., and New York, Met.), is ascribed to Shaykhzada at the bottom. Based on this ascription, Dickson and Welch have posited a first phase of the artist's career at Herat in the mid-1520s and attributed to him another painting from the same manuscript, Polo Scene (destr., see Welch, 1976, fig. C), 14 of the 15 paintings in a copy of Nizami's Khamsa ('Five poems'; 1524-5; New York, Met., 13.28.7) and four of the five illustrations in a copy of `Alishir Nava'i's Divan (1526-7; Paris, Bib. N., MS. supp. turc 316-17; see ISLAMIC ART,
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