Mohammad Hasan Afshar

Mohammad Hasan Afshar was an Iranian court painter and portraitist under the Qajar shahs (kings) Mohammad Shah Qajar ((r. 1834 – 1848)) and Naser al-Din Shah Qajar ((r. 1848 – 1896)).

Mohammad Hasan belonged to the Afshar tribe of Urmia. He was one of the few Iranian artists of the 19th-century who drew the praise of European observers, including the French explorer Xavier Hommaire de Hell. The modern Iranian historian Mohammad Ali Karimzadeh Tabrizi has brought out the confusion in writings surrounding Mohammad Hasan and his namesakes. Due to his congenital deafness, he has been mistaken for another Afshar painter, Abu'l-Hasan Afshar, who may have had the same condition but otherwise seemed to have been a different individual.

Mohammad Hasan died in c. 1880.