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Qajar painting is Iranian art produced during the Qajar period in Iran (1789–1925).

Background
The Qajar artistic style of painting, similar to the style of the Timurid style centuries before, originated outside the historical period from which it derives its name. Already in the late Safavid period a thoroughgoing stlye marked by Europeanized inlfuences had begun to oust the old native traditions, and by the onset of the 18th century, this new style had become completely dominant.

The Qajar artistic style, like the Timurid style centuries before, had its origins outside the historical period from which it derives its name. It was in the late Safavid period that a thoroughgoing Europeanized style began to oust the old native traditions, and by the beginning of the 12th/18th century the new style was completely dominant. In the middle and later years of that century its foremost exponent was Ṣādeq, who, like most of his successors, worked in various media—oils, miniature painting, and lacquer. Some of his large-scale works survive in the Pārs Museum at Shiraz and in the Negārestān Museum, Tehran. He seems to have had a long working life that spanned most of the second half of the 12th/18th century: Texier reports a current tradition that in 1738 he executed the large mural in the Čehel Sotūn at Isfahan depicting the victory of Nāder Shah at Karnal over the Mughal emperor Moḥammad Shah, while there are lacquer pieces bearing his signature coupled with dates in the last decade of the century (possibly the work of his pupils).

https://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/art-in-iran-v-qajar-2-painting

https://iranicaonline.org/articles/art-in-iran-v-qajar-1-general