Allahverdi Afshar

[1] Allahverdi Afshar, who was active first in his home Urmia and subsequently at the court of crown prince Abbas Mirza in Tabriz, appears to have avoided Tehran's expanding influence, unlike most royal artists of the Qajar era (1779–1925).

The contemporary American missionary Justin Perkins describes a fresco depicting Abbas Mirza hunting a boar at the palace, but he does not say who the artist was.

The theme of the decorating shows that Allahverdi worked on the complex later, during the governorship of Hossein Qoli Khan Beglarbegi Afshar (1797–1821), even though the structure's development began during the Zand era (1751–1794).

[1] Abbas Mirza's heavy dependence on Afshar manpower for his reformed army may have been the reason that Allahverdi managed to join the court.

[1] In 1820, Abbas Mirza sent Allahverdi Afshar to the city of Tbilisi to learn about lithography and to buy the first lithographic printing press that would ever be used in Iran.