Esmail Jalayer

Esmail Jalayer was an Iranian painter notable artist of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar reign era. He was peculiarly well known for his works in two admired dissimilar classes of Qajar paintings. irāni-sāzi and ṭabiʿat-sāzi. Esmail was the son of Haj Mohammad Khan Jalayer Kalati from a former and renowned family of Khorasan but there are no accurate details about the dates of his birth and death or location of the interment. Furthermore, just a few of his works have been written a date: one is a portrait of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar in watercolor, dated 1862, others include a depiction of a scene from the Anglo-Persian War companions and those of the founders and luminaries of Sufi sects and dervishes.