Mystery Master: Unravelling the legend of Manaku of Guler
One of the five portraits found of Manaku chitrakar, a great master of the Pahari school of miniature paintings of 18th century India, now hangs at the National Museum, New Delhi.
A painter at work: he is sitting on the floor, a brush poised over a bare sheet of wasli paper, propped up on a knee. There's no colour anywhere in the canvas, except his full black beard and plain white clothes.
