1830s-40s) was a Bengali painter in the British Raj period from Karraya in Ballygunge, a suburb in Calcutta.

[4] Fanny Parks lithographed some of Amir's paintings into her 1850 book Wanderings of a Pilgrim in Search of the Picturesque.

[5] Some of his paintings can be found at the India Office Records in London's British Library.

[6] The work A Syce (Groom) Holding Two Carriage Horses in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is also attributed to Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya.

[7] Another work by Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya is A Bay Racehorse with a Groom (ca.1842), which was recently acquired by the Yale Center for British Art.