Farrukh Chela
Legendary Artist
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Farrukh Chela (active c. 1580/1585–1604) was an Indian miniature painter during the reign of Akbar, the third Mughal Emperor. As a prolific artist, he contributed to most of the major illustrated manuscripts at the Mughal court. He belonged to a group of painters at Akbar's atelier who identified themselves as "chela" (disciple), a well-known painter from the court of Akbar whose descendants also worked in Mughal ateliers. Though not considered a great artist either in his own time — the A'in-i-Akbari does not include him among the seventeen foremost artists of the period — or in recent years, his style is so distinctive and idiosyncratic that it invites both interest and close examination