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Benjamin West
The Death of General Wolfe (Detail), 1770
oil on canvas
152.6 x 214.5 cm
Transfer from the Canadian War Memorials, 1921 (Gift of the 2nd Duke of Westminster, England, 1918)
National Gallery of Canada (no. 8007)
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Asaf Khan ?, c. 1650
Unknown (Indian, Imperial Mughal - c. 1650)
opaque watercolour on laminated paper
21.7 x 10.5 cm
Gift of Max Tanenbaum, Toronto, 1979
National Gallery of Canada (no. 23565)
This very fine portrait is somewhat compromised by the overpainted background. The sitter, a member of Jahangir's court, remains unknown. On the belt is inscribed the name of the painter, Nadir al-Zaman ("the Wonder of the World"), the honorific title given by Jahangir to Abul Hasan, his favourite artist. Born in c. 1558-59 as the son of the painter Aqa Riza of Herat, Abul Hasan was familiar with European painting.
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