News Excerpt: 

The oldest Vaishnav paintings can now be found inside Narsingh Hanuman Temple on the corner of Old Delhi’s Esplanade Road Cycle in chandni chowk. 

About the Narsingh Hanuman Temple:

• Though there is no written record of when the temple was built, it is believed that it came into being some 300 years ago, in the era of the later Mughals.
• The decision to construct the temple at the present site was made after an idol of Lord Hanuman appeared under a peepal tree.
• The temple is known as one of the finest Vaishnav frescoes in the Capital.
• Its pillar is painted in gold color and a painting of Lord Hanuman adorning its topmost storey.
• The interior walls of the temple bear several gold-painted frescoes of Lord Vishnu. 
• On one of the walls is a fresco depicting Lord Hanuman worshiping Lord Rama, Sita and Laxman.
• The frescoes in this temple are very similar to the frescoes which we see in the Jain temples and Shaivite temples of Old Delhi. These are later Mughal frescoes. 

About Company School of Art:

• Mughal art during the later Mughal era was called the Company School of Art. So, these kinds of frescoes are called the later-Mughal frescoes.
• Company School is a style of miniature painting that developed in India in the second half of the 18th century in response to the tastes of the British serving with the East India Company.
• The style first emerged in Murshidabad, West Bengal, and then spread to other centres of British trade: Benares (Varanasi), Delhi, Lucknow, and Patna.