Osman Hamdi Bey
Ottoman painter
Osman Hamdi Bey was an Ottoman 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... Wikipedia
Born: December 30, 1842, Istanbul Eyalet
Died: February 24, 1910 (age 67 years), Kuruçeşme, İstanbul, Türkiye
Children: Nazlı Hamdi
Spouse: Maria Hamdi
Siblings: Halil Edhem Eldem, İsmail Galib, and Mustafa Bey
Period: Romanticism
Parents: Ibrahim Edhem Pasha and Fatma Hanım
Artworks
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