Nepalese painting

Bhajuman, also known as Bhajumacha Chitrakar, was a court painter of Jung Bahadur Rana, who visited Europe in 1850 after becoming Prime Minister of Nepal.

However, the recent discovery of the illustrations by Raj Man Singh Chitrakar (1797-1865) for his patron a British Resident Brian Houghton Hodgson, sheds light on the western Realism entering Nepal way before the influences brought in by Bhajuman Chitrakar.S[3] to Nepalese people Mithila Painting is practiced in the Mithila region of Nepal and India.

Artists make pictures of natural objects like sun, moon, and deities from mythological epics, royal courts, and weddings.

[6] The remarkable entry of the western school of art practice is noticed in Nepali painting only after the return of two young artists Tej Bahadur Chitrakar 1898-1971 and Chandra Man Singh Maskey in late 1920s.

Tej Bahadur Chitrakar played an important role practising in both traditional Nepali art as well as western ways of painting.

After the return of young artists such as Uttam Nepali, [Manuj Babu Mishra], Shashi Bikram Shah, Batsa Gopal Baidhya],[12] Krishna Manandhar, Rama Nanda Joshi,[13] Thakur Prasad Mainali, Deepak Shimkhada, Sushma Shimkhada, Pramila Giri, Indra Pradhan, Karna Narsingh Rana, K.K.

Artists like Kiran Manandhar[14] First Chancellor of Nepal Academy of Fine Arts,[15] Karna Maskey, Ragini Upadhyay, Uma Shankar Shah, Pramesh Adhikari, Yuwak Tuladhar, Birendra Pratap Singh,[16] Surendra Bhattarai, Sharad Ranjit,[17] Ang Tsherin Sherpa Very Dynamic contemporary artist[18] succeeded as a young and vibrant generation during 1980s.