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Abdallah Khan was a Persian painter and architect, active between 1810 and 1850 in Tehran. He received his apprenticeship in the royal workshops. In 1839, he was appointed by the King of Persia, Mohammad Shah Qajar (d. 1848), as painter laureate, court architect and supervisor of the royal workshops.[1]

Abdallah's best-known work is a mural covering three internal walls of the Nigaristan Palace in Tehran, including 118 life-size figures. An inscription at the bottom of the painting attributes it to Abdallah Khan, dated 1812–13.[1] He painted several full-length portraits of King Fat′h-Ali Shah Qajar (d. 1834).[1] Abdallah was also imperial designer of Fat′h-Ali Shah's marble cenotaph in Qum.[1]

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• Portrait of Fath 'Ali Shah in Victoria & Albert Museum Collection
• Robinson, B. W. (1982). "ʿABDALLĀH KHAN". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Volume I/2: ʿAbd-al-Hamīd–ʿAbd-al-Hamīd. London and New York: Routledge & Kegan Paul. pp. 197–198. ISBN 978-0-71009-091-1.

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