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Who painted “The Tortoise Trainer”?
“The Tortoise Trainer” was painted by Osman Hamdi Bey in 1906. Where to see it: Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation.
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Osman Hamdi Bey (30 December 1842 – 24 February 1910) was an Ottoman 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. Wikipedia
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- “A Lady of Constantinople”, 1881
- “Two Musician Girls”, 1880
- “Kur’an Tilaveti / Reciting the Quran”, 1910
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