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Osman Hamdi Bey

Osman Hamdi Bey was a Turkish artist born on October 30, 1842. Hamdi Bey contributed to the Academic movement, worked in France and died on February 24, 1910. Get notified when Osman Hamdi Bey's biography is complete:

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

Creating beauty by the rules

1825-1905

Alexandre Cabanel

Favorite of the salon, a classical painter with an erotic edge

1823-1889

Cristóbal Rojas Poleo

A childhood introduction to death leads to success, at a price

1857-1890

1801 2000

A self-taught painter struggles through poverty and war

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The soul of Impressionism

Berthe Morisot Osman Hamdi Bey

Painting dreams with a child's brush

Henri Rousseau

The unflinching embrace of motherhood

Mary Cassatt

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Osman Hamdi Bey

A Lady of Constantinople

The Tortoise Trainer

Reciting the Quran (Kur’an Tilaveti)

Scribe (Arzuhalci)