DAULAT

flourished 16, th and 17th centuries, India an important Mughal painter who worked during the reigns of both the emperors Akbar and Jahangir and painted under Shah Jahan as well. Born into the imperial service, presumably the son of a painter, Daulat was an unusually skilled portraitist. He is responsible for recording his own likeness and the portraits of several other Mughal artists on the margins of an album now in the Royal Library of the Golestan Palace, Tehran. His portrait also appears along with that of the scribe 'Abd-ur-Rahim in the Dyson Perrins copy of the Khamseh Nezami of 1596 now in the British Museum, an honour paid the two by the emperor Jahangir. Splendid paintings were executed by him in the Akbar-nameh (in the Chester Beatty Collection) and the Babur-nameh (in the National Museum of India). He was also skillful in gold illumination, and many examples of his work can be seen in the albums assembled for Jahangir.