Still Life with Apples – (Süleyman Seyyid Bey) Previous Next


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Date: 1895

Size: 32 x 55 cm

Museum: Sakıp Sabancı Museum (Istanbul, Türkiye)

Technique: Oil On Canvas

Süleyman Seyyid Bey was an artist whose work in the field of art education made a significant contribution to the westernisation movement that followed the Reforms of 1839. While studying at the Military Academy he took lessons from two noted artists, Pierre Gués and Giuseppe Schranz, who taught at the academy. His accomplished drawings, watercolors and oil paintings won him recognition, and in 1862, during the reign of Sultan Abdülaziz, he was sent to Paris for further education. There Süleyman Seyyid Bey attended the Ottoman School and became a student of two leading French painters of the time, Alexandre Cabanel and Gustave Boulanger. He remained in Paris for eight years, during which time he exhibited his paintings and was awarded the Officier d

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