Observe the image and answer the following question.
Identify the artist of this equestrian portrait.
Answer & explanation
Correct answer: option 1
The correct answer is Option (1) → Tulchi Ram
This is the equestrian portrait of Aniruddha Singh, painted by Tulchi Ram in 1680. Dana painted the Jodhpur Chaugan Players, Guman painted the Chitrakut scene of the Ramayana, and Nihal Chand worked for Sawant Singh of Kishangarh.
Note: This topic was not named in the CUET 2026 syllabus, but it was part of the NCERT chapter. In 2025 and 2026, NTA also asked questions on topics in NCERT that the CUET syllabus did not name. So our mocks have questions from every part of the NCERT chapter, to give you enough practice. Read the whole chapter, not only the sub-topics named in the syllabus.
NCERT (2026-27): “Raja Aniruddha Singh Hara Aniruddha Singh (1682–1702) succeeded Bhao Singh. Few remarkable paintings with interesting documentary evidence have survived from his period. One of them being the much talked of equestrian portrait of Aniruddha Singh by artist Tulchi Ram painted in 1680. It epitomises an artist’s perception of speed and a horse in motion that he accomplished by completely negating the rendering of the foreground.”
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