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Atul Bose studied at the Jubilee Art Academy in Calcutta. The Academy was a private institution that sought to train its pupils in the contemporary British art style as opposed to the Indianising trends evident in the art movement begun by Abanindranath tagore and E Havell. Among his colleagues at the Jubilee Academy were Hemendranath Mazumdar and Bhabani Charan Laha. Atul Bose received a scholarship from the University of Calcutta to study art in London. He toured Europe extensively. These trips had far-reaching consequences on his career as an artist and to a great extent influenced the themes of his paintings. Atul Bose was among those artists who later helped Hemendranath Mazumdar to establish Indian Academy of Art in 1919. The Academy sought to emphasise realism in sharp contrast to the lyrical themes made with the wash technique and popularised by the Bengal school. Bose preferred to use oil as the medium of his creativity. His paintings were marked by sensitive representation of an artist well versed in the technical nuances of his trade. The careful delineation of details was yet another characteristic feature of his paintings. He painted portraits from the original collections at the Windsor Castle and the Buckingham Palace under the commission of the Indian government. His famous paintings include imaginative and evocative works like the Sphinx (oil on plywood) and the skilfully executed Self Portrait (1945). Atul Bose also offered for sale sets of portraits o ...