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The Manas Family were an Ottoman-Armenian family that provided Imperial Portraitists to the Sultans of the Ottoman Empire in the later half of the 19th century.[1][2] Some were also chief secretaries to the Ottoman Embassy in Paris.[3]
The Family
The family was of Armenian decent.[2] They were known to be originally from Kayseri.[4] Mouradja d'Ohsson writes that a Rafael Manas (1710-1780) served as the court's chief artist during the reign of Abdulhamid I (1774-1789).[5] The family eventually provided successive imperial potraitists in the following years. Family members such as Sebuh Manas (1816-1889), a brother of Rupen, and another Manas named Jozef (1835-1916) both served as imperial artists during the reigns of Mahmud II (1808-1839), Abdulmecid I (1839-1861), Abdulaziz (1861-1876) and Abdulhamit II (1876-1909).[2] Since the brothers were assigned the Ottoman Embassy in Paris, their portraits were distributed to other embassies throughout Europe.[1]
Zenop
Zenop Mans worked as first secretary and interpreter at the Ottoman Embassy in Vienna in the 1840s.[2]
Rupen
Rupen Manas was the eldest son Zenop Manas.[4] He was the chief interpreter of the Ottoman Embassy in Paris in 1847.[1] He received a Mecidiye medal in 1854.[2] Sultan Mahmut II sent Rupen Manas to Paris for training in art.[6] He had his own portrait done in oils and then had it displayed at the Sublime Porte.[2]
References
- ^ a b c Shaw, Wendy M. K. (2010). Ottoman painting : reflections of western art from the Ottoman Empire to the Turkish Republic. London: I. B. Tauris. p. 38. ISBN 9781848852884.
{{cite book}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ a b c d e f Kürkman, Garo (2004). Armenian painters in the Ottoman empire: 1600-1923. Istanbul: Matusalem publ. p. 587-589. ISBN 9789759201531.
{{cite book}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ Öztuncay, Bahattin (2003). The Photographers of Constantinople: Text & photographs. Aygaz. p. 37. ISBN 9789752960510.
{{cite book}}:|access-date=requires|url=(help) - ^ a b "Family and People". minidev.com. Retrieved 10 December 2012.
- ^ Mouradja d'Ohsson. Tableau general de I'Empire Othoman, iv, 1791
- ^ Germaner, Semra (1989). Orientalism and Turkey. Beşiktaş, İstanbul: Turkish Cultural Service Foundation. p. 81. ISBN 9789757522010.
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