Osman Hamdi Bey

10 works held in 5 museums

Turkish Orientalist painter, 1842-1910

The Tortoise Trainer, 1906.

Kaplumbağa Terbiyecisi (museum title)

Osman Hamdi Bey (Turkish), oil on canvas

Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

Two Musician Girls, 1880.

İki Müzisyen Kız (museum title)

Osman Hamdi Bey (Turkish), oil on canvas

Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

Turkish Street Scene, 1888.

Türkische Straßenszene (museum title)

Osman Hamdi Bey (Turkish), oil on canvas

Alte Nationalgalerie, Germany

Young Emir Studying, 1878.

Osman Hamdi Bey (Turkish), oil on canvas

Louvre Abu Dhabi, Émirats arabes unis

Kökenoğlu Rıza Efendi, 1871.

Osman Hamdi Bey (Turkish), oil on canvas

Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

The Hodja Reading the Quran

Kuran Okuyan Hoca (museum title)

Osman Hamdi Bey (Turkish), oil on canvas

Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul

The Fountain of Youth, 1904.

Der Wunderbrunnen (museum title)

Osman Hamdi Bey (Turkish), oil on canvas

Alte Nationalgalerie, Germany

Portrait of Naile Hanım

Naile Hanım Portresi (museum title)

Osman Hamdi Bey (Turkish), oil on canvas

Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul

Koranic Instruction, 1890.

Osman Hamdi Bey (Turkish), oil on canvas

Private collection

Young Woman Reading, 1880.

Osman Hamdi Bey (Turkish), oil on canvas

Private collection

Osman Hamdi Bey (1842-1910) was a Turkish painter, born and died in Istanbul. Trained in Paris under Gustave Boulanger, he painted mosque interiors and scenes of Ottoman life, among them The Tortoise Trainer (1906), held by the Pera Museum in Istanbul. An archaeologist as well, he directed the imperial museum of Istanbul, now its Archaeological Museums, from 1881 and founded the city's fine arts school in 1882. In 1884 he also reworked the regulation that protects the antiquities of the Ottoman Empire.

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