Dust Muhammad, also Dust Muhammad Musawwir or "Dust Muhammad the painter" was a Persian painter of miniatures, calligrapher, and art historian, active from about 1510 to 1564. Apparently a student of
The Story Of Haftvad And The Worm, from the Shahnameh by Dust Muhammad, Aga Khan Museum, c. 1540, from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp
Portrait of Shah Abu'l Ma‘ali by Dust Muhammad, c. 1556. He wears the Tāj-i 'Izzat headdress of Humayun. Aga Khan Collection
Allegory of the Celebrations for Akbar's Circumcision at Khwaja Seh Yaran Mughal at Kabul, c. 1546 AD Detail of Humayun's portrait , photographed c. 1985
Allegory of the Celebrations for Akbar's Circumcision at Khwaja Seh Yaran Mughal at Kabul, c. 1546 AD, photographed c. 1985 MET catalogue
Sultan Mohammad was an Iranian painter at the Safavid court in Tabriz under Shah Ismail I and Shah Tahmasp I. He served as the director of Shah Ismail's artists’ workshop and as the first project dire
Signature of Sultan Mohammed: Persian: عمل سلطان محمد "The work of Sultan Muhammad" over the doorway in Allegory of drunkenness, Cartier Hafiz, 1531, Tabriz.
Signature of Sultan Muhammad in the Celebration of Id, Cartier Hafiz, 1531
Bahram Gur in the White Pavilion, Khamsa of Nizami. Sultan Mohammed circa 1505, Tabriz (Topkapi H. 762).
The Mir'aj of Prophet Muhammad, Khamsa of Nizami. Sultan Mohammed circa 1505, Tabriz (Keir Collection, III. 207)