SULEYMAN SEYYID - FLORAL STILL LIFE

Suleyman Seyyid 1842-1913

Floral Still Life

Signed in Old Turkish, dated H.1311 I M.1893
Oil on canvas
52 x 35 cm

SULEYMAN SEYYID
He completed his primary and secondary education at Maltepe and Maçka military secondary schools. He attracted the attention of his teachers Chirans and Kees with his pencil and watercolor drawings on history during his studies at İdadi and Harbiye. He was sent to Mekteb-i Osmaniye in Paris by Sultan Abdülaziz. There, he developed his artistic knowledge with the education he received on ''menazır'', ''resm-i hatti'', ''resm-i taliidi'' and ''resm-i mücessem''. When Mekteb-i Osmani was closed, he worked for a while with one of the famous teachers of that period, Cabnel. He graduated from Paris School of Fine Arts. He returned to Istanbul in 1875. He worked as an assistant to the painter Osman Nuri Pasha for a while. Later, he became an art teacher at Harbiye. He continued this profession at Kuleli Military High School and Military Medical School. He worked as a French teacher at Forest and Maadin Schools. He contributed to the establishment of ''Mülkiye-i Şahane''. Süleyman Seyyid, who was given the nickname ''metrologiste'' because he paid great attention to the rules of perspective, wrote a book called ''Fenn-i Menazır'' which he could not publish. Süleyman Seyyid, as an early impressionist in Turkish paintings, influenced the generations that came after him and made paintings that transcended the strict formalism of the classical painting tradition.