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RAVI VARMA |
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| They are all rich
and throbbing with life. Ravi Varma married the younger sister Of the Travancore Queen in, 1865. In 1873 there was an exhibition of pictures at Madras. At the suggestion of the then Travancore Ruler, Ravi Varma too exhibited his paintings at that exhibition. He won the first prize. From that day Ravi Varma became famous as a painter. The Governor of Madras commissioned Ravi Varma to paint some pictures for him. When the Prince of Wales visited Trivandrum in 1875, the then Ruler of Travancore presented to him some of Ravi Varma's paintings. |
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