 Abd al-Samad

'Abd al-Samad or Khwaja Abdus Samad was a 16th-century painter of Persian miniatures who moved to the Mughal Empire in South Asia and became one of the founding masters of the Mughal miniature tradition, and later the holder of a number of senior administrative roles.Samad's career under the Mughals, from about 1550 to 1595, is relatively well documented, and a number of paintings are attributed to him from this period.