SM Sultan who is a famous painter of Bangladesh.

Do you know about Sheikh Mohammed Sultan?

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He is a famous painter of our country Bangladesh. He was born in Narail in 1923. His family didn't have a lot of money. He went to school for five years, but then he went to work with his father.
As a child, Sultan love to draw. He drew pictures of building and other things. He wanted to study at Calcutta Art College, but s family didn't have the money. In 1938,
he got the money and he went to the Calcutta Art College. He stayed there f three years and then he left. He travelled around Asia and Europe and painted rivers, trees and villages and its people. Then he came back to Bangladesh. He painted pictures of the farmers and fisherman of Bangladesh.

People around the world know about Sultan and his paintings. He exhibited his paintings along with the famous painters, Pablo Picasso and Salvador Dali.

Sultan loved children. He established 'Nandankanon' and 'Shishuswargo' for children. Here they could get some education and learn painting. Every year, there a Sultan Mela in Narail. He died in 1994 at a hospital in Jossore.

His paintings:-

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• That moment when he was painting.
  
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