By:PORTRAIT OF A LADY
Dimensions:56 by 47 cm.; 22 by 18 ½ in.
Three quarter length, wearing a blue sari, standing beside a table on which rests a book entitled ‘Sri Sri Chaitanya Bhagwata’, a classical column beyond Signed lower right: B. P. Banerjee/1911 Oil on canvas, in the original polished wood frame Bama Pada Banerjee received his training at the Government School of Art, Calcutta when Henry Hover Locke was Principal. His work was first exhibited at the Calcutta Fine Art Exhibition in 1879, where he received the Maharaja Jyotindramohan Tagore Award for his painting ‘Juggler and Monkey’. He is best known as a portrait artist, painting many important dignitaries of Calcutta, but he also painted scenes from the Mahabharata and Ramayana which were produced as oleographs as early as the 1890s.