GOVARDHAN

flourished 17th century, , India a noted Mughal painter born into imperial service, the son of a Hindu painter, Bhavani Das. His work spanned the reigns of the emperors Akbar, Jahangir, and Shah Jahan. Several examples of his work have survived, and they are sufficient to establish him as a painter of great ability, fond of rich, sensuous colour and softly modeled forms. Govardhan was one of the illustrators of the Babur-nameh in the British Museum and the artist of the "Assembly of Gulab-pashi," dated 1615, in the Reza Library, Rampur, India. Fine portraits by him are in the Jahangir albums now in the collections of various American and European museums. Few Mughal painters depicted with such insight the many human types found in India.