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"Listening to My Sweet Pipings" painted by John William Waterhouse, 1911.
'Gone But Not Forgotten' painted by John William Waterhouse, 1873.
Osman Hamdi Bey (1842-1910) was a man of amazing ability and talent. He was an Ottoman statesman, intellectual, painter and archaeologist. Here is a photo of the great man at an archaeological dig in Nemrut Dağ and one of his most famous paintings, 'The Tortoise Trainer'.