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Fakir Chand La
Fakir Chand La is an Impressionism artist. 1 work is cataloged here, principally at Victoria and Albert Museum.
Fakir Chand Lal was the Mughal emperor’s bird painter who kept a tame hawk on his wrist while he sketched in the Delhi gardens. He aimed for feather-by-feather accuracy but fudged the night-jar’s eyes to make them look scared, because hawks actually attack live birds. See his “A hawk attacking a night-jar” (c. 1850) to watch a single brushstroke decide life or death.
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