The Rājanyas
The Rājanyas

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Nainsukh was an 18th century painter from the Guler kingdom, who has been hailed as “one of the most original and brilliant of Indian painters”.
A thread of his artworks that are rarely, if at all, found on the internet 🧵.
1. Vishnu seated on a lotus
2. Raga Dipika
3. Raga Kedara
4. Raga Madhumadhavi
5. Janardan at Thakurdwara
6. The Poet Bihari offers homage to Radha and Krishna
7. An acolyte's progress
8. The elephant “guth”
9. Raja Balwant Singh introspects construction works
10. Raja Balwant at leisure
11. Duck hunting scene
12. Lion (?) climbing on the elephant
13. Two separate paintings
14. Villagers around a fire
15. A dance scene
16. Elephants fighting
17. Abhisarika
Paintings 1-15 are taken from BN Goswami's “Nainsukh of Guler” (Niyogi books, 2011); no. 16 from MAP Academy, and no. 17 from Wikimedia commons.
Nainsukh also has a movie on him by Amit Dutta released in 2010.

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