SM Sultan

Sheikh Mohammed Sultan (10 August 1923—1994; better known as SM Sultan), was a Bangladeshi painter. He was declared the Man of Asia in 1982 by University of Cambridge.
Early life
Sultan was born in Masimdia, Narail district, British India (now in Bangladesh). After five years of schooling in Victoria Collegiate School in Narail, he joined with his father to work as a mason. He began to draw the buildings his father worked on and developed an artistic disposition. He wanted to go to Kolkata to study art but his family did not have the means to send him there. Eventually, Sultan went to Kolkata in 1938 with monetary support from the local zamindar.
Having inadequate qualifications for admission into the Art School in Kolkata, Sultan only managed to get in through the help of the poet and art critic Hasan Shahid Suhrawardy, a member of the school's governing body. Sultan also stayed at Suhrawardy's house and was allowed use of his library...