(1898-1977) Atul Bose was a portrait painter from Bengal, studied at the Jubilee Academy in Calcutta and then at the Government art
school.His Bengal Tiger, a sketch of Asutosh Mukherjee, earned him a scholarship to the
Royal Academy in London.
Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was deeply influenced there by Walter Sickert. Upon his return to India, Bose taught at the Government art school in Calcutta. In 1929, the Government of India announced an all-India competition to produce copies of the royal portraits at Windsor Castle for the Viceroy's new residence in New Delhi.
