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Chaudhary
He was born in in a jamadar family at Tajhat (now in Bangladesh), RANGPUR District Bengal. He had exceptional talent in drawing, painting and clay modelling by birth.
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His father Uma Prasad Roy Choudhry took him to Abanindranath Tagore where he learned drawing and painting. As Abanindranath gave absolute freedom to his students, he also allowed Devi Prasad to evolve his own way. He learned life drawing and portraiture from , an Italian painter in western technique.
Meanwhile he joined the studio of Hiramon Roy Chaudhary and did modelling under his guidance. He started his work as a freelance artist and soon occupied a leading position among noted painters and sculptors of his the age of twenty-five, he made his father’s clay sculpture which is treated as the super example of impressionist style till now.
in , he was appointed as the principal of government school of art, Madras. During his three decades of stay in madras, he did his outstanding works in painti