Impey Album
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The Impey Album was a collection of Company style paintings commissioned by Elijah Impey and his wife Mary, née Reade, of the animals in their menagerie in Calcutta, India, where Elijah was chief just
Indian Roller on Sandalwood by Zain ud-Din, now in the collection of the Minneapolis Institute of Art
Sheikh Zainuddin
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Shaikh Zain-al-Din or Sheikh Zainuddin was an Indian Muslim artist who was most well-known for his contributions to the Impey Album and as one of the first artists that helped create the Anglo-Indian
Impey Album
…surroundings. The collection, often known as the Impey Album, is an important example of Company style painting. The three artists who are known were Sheikh Zain ud-Din, Bhawani Das, and Ram Das. More than half the over 300 paintings were of birds. Mary also kept extensive notes about habitat and behaviour, which were…
Saras by Zainuddin
Orange-headed thrush and an Acherontia moth on a Bauhinia
Chestnut-tailed starling on a Clerodendrum sp.
Harpactes erythrocephalus female on a melastome