Shamsuddin (painter) dating history

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Amir Dawlatyar, a slave of Sultan Abu-Sa'id, was ennobled by being a pupil of Master Ahmad Musa and was outstanding in this regard, especially in pen-and-ink drawing, such that, although Mawlana Waliullah was without equal in the world, when he saw Amir Dawlatyar' s work he justly confessed his inability [to match it]. One of his students was Master Shamsuddin, who was trained in the time of Sultan Uways and made scenes in a square-format Shahnama that was written by Khwaja Amir-Ali. When Sultan Uways went to his eternal reward, Master Shamsuddin chose not to enter anyone else's service; and his student, Khwaja AbdulHayy, undertook [to provide] him with the necessities of life, and the aforementioned master lived in AbdulHayy's house, constantly enjoying leisure, and devoted himself to training Khwaja Abdul-Hayy so that the Khwaja, in the time of the emperor Sultan-Ahmad of Baghdad, whose countenance shone in patronizing the masters of learning and perfection, took up the pen of uniqueness and instructed Sultan Ahmad in depiction so that the sultan himself produced a scene in the Abusa 'idnama in pen and ink. ... Another of Shamsuddin's students was Master Junayd of Baghdad.