Rao Bahadur Mahadev Vishwanath Dhurandhar FRSA (18 March 1867 – 1 June 1944) was an Indian painter[1] and postcard artist from the British colonial era.

[3] Dhurandhar was born in a Marathi Pathare Prabhu family[4] at Kolhapur, Maharashtra.

[8] His popular works include documenting the city of Bombay and its people, as well as painting scenes from Hindu mythology and Omar Khayyam series.

[10] Dhurandhar also designed postcards, provided the illustrations for S. M. Edwardes, By-Ways of Bombay (1912) and C. A. Kincaid's Deccan Nursery Tales, besides drawing cartoons for the Gujarati periodicals Aram and Bhoot.

In 1926, he was commissioned by the ruler of Aundh State, Maharaja Bhawanrao Pantpratinidhi to make paintings on the life of Shivaji.