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Thursday, 11th March 2010 (723 views)

A large portrait of Emperor Jahangir of the Mughal Empire painted using gold has gone on show at the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London.

The painting forms part of a wider exhibition of Indian art entitled The Indian Portrait: 1560-1860, which opens today (March 11th) and runs until June 20th.

According to the Telegraph, the portrait of Emperor Jahangir is the star of the show, measuring six feet high and featuring gold and watercolours on cotton.

Before today, it had never been seen in public before as it belongs to a private collection.

Entitled Jahangir Holding A Globe, the portrait was painted by an unknown artist and shows the emperor sitting in a gold-tinged chair while holding a globe in his right hand.

Emperor Jahangir reigned from 1605 to 1627. His niece by marriage to 20th wife Nur Jahan, Mumtaz Mahal, is famous through the work of her husband, Shah Jahan, who built the Taj Mahal as a final resting place for her after she died in childbirth in 1631.

 

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