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Lalu Prasad Shaw is an Indian painter and printmaker. Born in Bengal, he completed his education in fine arts at the Government College of Art and Craft in Kolkata. He is known for his highly stylized portraits of Bengali men and women. He draws on the stylistic conventions of Mughal and colonial Company School paintings to make his remarkably detailed contemporary portraits. Shaw has exhibited extensively in India and abroad since 1956, and his works have been a part of many prestigious international shows.