A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.s8.t2.11

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The leader of the school, Mr. Abanindro Nāth Tagore, began as a painter in oils, after the European fashion, but soon abandoned the oils medium, and devoted himself to the 'water-colour drawings'. Many works by him and his pupils have been exhibited at meetings of Societies in London, and reproduced in Mr. Havell's book or in periodicals. One specimen, therefore, may suffice—the picture of the 'Exiled Yaksha', or demigod, an illustration of a passage in Kālidāsa's poem, the *Meghadūta*, or 'Cloud Messenger', by Mr. Tagore (Pl. LXXII). Another good picture is 'The Flight of Lakshman Sen' by the late Mr. Surendra Nath Gangooly (Mr. Havell's Pl. LXXVIII). Other pupils of Mr. Tagore deserving mention are Nanda Lal Bose, Ishwari Parshad, a descendant of hereditary painters at Patna, Gogonendra Nath Tagore, brother of Abanindro Nath, Asit Kumār Haldar, and Hakim Muhammad Khan.²