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Sheikh Zainuddin was a Bengali Muslim artist of the East India company period and one of the local artists who rose to prominence under European patronage in British Raj.
His drawings of mountain-rats, hanging bats, parrots, storks etc. have high aesthetic qualities. Several art works of Zainuddin are now preserved in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
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