The bard of Bengal, Shri Rabindra Nath Tagore was born on 7th May 1861 in Kolkata. Tagore had invited Beihong to Shantiniketan in 1939 where his master introduced ink brush painting and calligraphy to the students. These paintings of Tagore are considered to be one of Xu beihong masterpieces for it was unique at that time to portrait such a realistic facial expression in Chinese ink brush art.