Osman Hamdi Bey

1842–1910 · Impressionism

Osman Hamdi Bey was an Ottoman Greek administrator, intellectual, art expert and also a prominent and pioneering painter. He was the Ottoman Empire's first archaeologist and first museologist and he is regarded as the founding father of museology, archaeology, fine arts education and museum curator's professions in Turkey.

17 paintings

• Islamic theologian with Koran (1902)
• Koranic Instruction (1890)
• Portrait of woman (His wife Naile Hanim)
• A Young Emir Studying (1905)
• Arzuhalci / Public Scribe (1910)
• Coffee Table (1879)
• Two Musician Girls (1880)
• A Lady of Constantinople (1881)
• Lilac Collecting Girl (1881)
• Kur’an Tilaveti / Reciting the Quran (1910)
• Kökenoğlu Rıza Efendi (1871)
• Turkish Street Scene (1888)
• Naile Hanım Portresi / Portrait of Naile Hanım (1910)
• Girl Reciting Qur'an (1880)
• The Tortoise Trainer (1906)
• Flowers in a White Vase (1876)
• Old man in front of children's graves (1903)