Osman Hamdi BeyArcheologist, painter, scientist, orphan

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:

Creating beauty by the rules

William-Adolphe Bouguereau

1825-1905

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

Alexandre Cabanel

1823-1889

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

Cristóbal Rojas Poleo

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

Actress on stage and screen moonlights as a sculptor

Sarah Bernhardt

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Osman Hamdi BeyArcheologist, painter, scientist, orphan

A Lady of Constantinople

The Tortoise Trainer

Scribe (Arzuhalci)

Reciting the Quran (Kur’an Tilaveti)