(1898-1977) He 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.

Rabindranath Tagore was the youngest son of Debendranath Tagore, a leader of the Brahmo Samaj, which was a new religious sect in nineteenth-century Bengal. He was educated at home; and although at seventeen he was sent to England for formal schooling, he did not finish his studies there.

In his mature years, in addition to his many-sided literary activities, he managed the family estates, and also started an experimental school at Shantiniketan where he tried his Upanishadic ideals of education. He received Nobel prize in English literature for 'Gitanjali', a collection of poems translated from Bengali into English by him.