Seu-Manaku-Nainsukh family
Family of artists
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The Seu-Manaku-Nainsukh family, also known as the Seu-Nainsukh family, were a family of artists active during the 18th and 19th centuries in the Punjab Hills region of the Indian subcontinent.
Family
Seu was the patriarch of the Seu-Manaku-Nainsukh family, which would produced famous artists such as Manaku, Nainsukh, Fattu, Khushala, Kama, Ranjha, Gursahai, Sukhdayal, Deviditta, Gaudhu, Nikka, Saudagar, Attra, and Ramdayal.[1][2][3][4] His two sons, Manaku and Nainsukh, became successful artists in their own right.[5] Seu served as the mentor to his elder son, Manaku, with both his sons being educated at his workshop.[2][6] His son, Manaku, would later finish a Ramayana series that Seu had left unfinished.[2]
The periods of the Seu familial atelier can be divided as follows:[7]
- Seu – during the 1720's[7]
- Manaku and Nainsukh – active between 1730–1760[7]
- First generation after Manaku and Nainsukh, consisting of their six sons – 1760's onwards[7]
- Second generation after Manaku and Nainsukh, consisting of their grandchildren[3]
First generation
Second generation
Third generation
Fourth generation
Fifth generation
- Chandulal, Gokal's great-grandson and son of Lachhmandas[3]
Notes
- Although Sajnu was not a blood-descendant nor blood-relative of the Manaku-Nainsukh family, he is still considered as part of the family by B. N. Goswamy in the extended sense of the word as he worked in their familial style and influenced it. There is a possibility he may have been a relative through marriage or a maternal relative to an actual member of the Manaku-Nainsukh family.