Maharaja Bhupat Pal (r.1598-1635), the founder of Basohli, spent much of his career at the Mughal court, like other Rajput rulers of the time. Eventually he was murdered there in 1635 by a rival Hill Raja. He is said to have been a man of mighty physique, and in this powerful posthumous portrait he looms over the half-sized figure of his hookah-bearer.
Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2nd February-22nd April 2012, Visions of Mughal India: The Collection of Howard Hodgkin, Andrew Topsfield, ed. (Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012), no. 62 on p. 148, pp. 18 & 146, illus. p. 149
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