Andrew S. Topsfield is Keeper of Eastern Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. He was educated at

Winchester College Winchester College is a public school (fee-charging independent day and boarding school) in Winchester, Hampshire, England. It was founded by William of Wykeham in 1382 and has existed in its present location ever since. It is the oldest of ...

and the universities of Oxford and London. In 1978 he joined the Indian section of the

Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...

as an assistant keeper and moved to the Ashmolean Museum as assistant keeper of

eastern art The history of Asian art includes a vast range of arts from various cultures, regions, and religions across the continent of Asia. The major regions of Asia include Central, East, South, Southeast, and West Asia. Central Asian art primarily co ...

in 1984.

Selected publications

* Ed., ''Court painting in Rajasthan'', Bombay, 2000. * "Court painting at Udaipur: Art under the patronage of the Maharanas of Mewar", '' Artibus Asiae Supplementum'' XLIV, Zurich, 2002. * Ed., with R. Crill and S. Stronge, ''Arts of Mughal India: Studies in honour of Robert Skelton'', Ahmedabad and London, 2004. * Ed., ''In the realm of gods and kings: Arts of India'', London, 2004 (repr. 2014). * Ed., ''The art of play: Board and card games of India'', Bombay, 2006. * 'Snakes and Ladders in India: Some further discoveries', ''

Artibus Asiae ''Artibus Asiae'' is a biannual academic journal specialising in the arts and archaeology of Asia. Along with the '' Ostasiatische Zeitschrift'' (founded in 1912) it was one of the most successful journals in its field in the German-speaking part o ...

'', LXVI, 1, 2006, 143-79. * ''Paintings from Mughal India'', Oxford: Bodleian Library, 2008 (repr. 2013). * ‘Sahibdin’, in M.C. Beach, B.N. Goswamy and E. Fischer eds., ''Masters of Indian painting'', Zurich, 2011, vol. 1, 391-406. * ''Visions of Mughal India: The collection of

Howard Hodgkin Sir Gordon Howard Eliott Hodgkin (6 August 1932 – 9 March 2017) was a British painter and printmaker. His work is most often associated with abstraction. Early life Gordon Howard Eliot Hodgkin was born on 6 August 1932 in Hammersmith, ...

'', Oxford: Ashmolean Museum, 2012.

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