Sikh painting

Major centres for the art school was Lahore, Amritsar, Patiala, Nabha, Kapurthala and Jind.

W. G. Archer writes that at the start of the 19th century, Pahari painters were invited to paint portraits of Sikh rulers, nobility and influential families... Another group of painters migrated from Mughal Empire, after the slow decline of the empire there were no patrons to commission new works.

[4][2] Main centres where the Sikh paintings flourished were Lahore, Amritsar, Patiala, Nabha, Kapurthala and Jind.

[2] The style was discovered by Anand Coomaraswamy, Percy Brown and S. N. Dasgupta, in the middle of the twentieth century, in the streets of Amritsar and Lahore.

[5][2] Main themes of the Sikh school of the paintings were the, first religious Ten Sikh Gurus, set of Gurus and saints, Hindu Mythology; court paintings and feudal nature -portraits of chiefs of state and nobility, scenes from the court and portrait of European travellers residing in Amritsar and Lahore; secular paintings - hunting scene, flowers and foliage, farmers; and ethnological studies - scenes from the daily lives of people in bazaar such as workings of a cobbler, carpenter, oil mill maker, nihangs and blacksmiths.