Osman Hamdi Bey

1842 — 1910

Ottoman statesman, academic and artist (1842-1910)

Osman Hamdi Bey was an Ottoman Turkish administrator, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter. He was the Ottoman Empire's first modern archaeologist, and is regarded as the founding father of both archaeology and the museum curator's professions in Turkey. He was the founder of Istanbul Archaeology Museums and of the Istanbul Academy of Fine Arts known today as the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. He was also the first mayor of Kadıköy.

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Osman Hamdi Bey

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Portrait of woman (His wife Naile Hanim)

Two Young Girls Visiting A Shrine

Kökenoğlu Rıza Efendi

Flowers in a White Vase

Coffee Table

Girl Reciting Qur'an

Two Musician Girls

A Lady of Constantinople

Lilac Collecting Girl

Persian carpet dealer on the street

Koranic Instruction

Mihrab

Islamic theologian with Koran

Girl With Pink Cap

Woman with a Mimos

The Tortoise Trainer

Arzuhalci / Public Scribe

Kur’an Tilaveti / Reciting the Quran

Naile Hanım Portresi / Portrait of Naile Hanım

Old man in front of children's graves

Der Wunderbrunnen

A Young Emir Studying