Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya

Shaikh Muhammad Amir of Karraya (Bengali: শেখ মুহম্মদ আমির; fl. 1830s-40s) was a Bengali Muslim painter in the British Raj period from Karraya in Ballygunge, a suburb in Calcutta.^[1][2][3]

Shaykh Muhammad Amir
শেখ মুহম্মদ আমির
Citizenship	Bengal Presidency
Occupation	Painter
Years active	1830s-40s

A Syce (Groom) Holding Two Carriage Horses.

Career

English child seated on a pony and surrounded by three Indian servants

His patron was Thomas Halroyd.^[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. It may be viewed in the museum's Study Room by appointment.