Greek, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1768, in Zákinthos; died 1834, at Zákinthos.
Painter. Religious subjects, portraits.
Cantunis was the pupil of Nicolas Cutuzis, and also studied in Venice.
Athens (Ethnikí Pinakothíki)
Zakinthos (MA)
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Cantunis, Nicolas
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Gysis, Nikolaos
Greek, 19th century, male.
Born 1 March 1842, on Tinos (Cyclades); died 4 January 1901, in Munich.
Painter. Portraits, allegorical subjects, religious subjects, genre scenes, landscapes, still-lifes.
Nikolaos Gysis trained at the Athens school of fine arts and in 1865 at the Piloty school in Munich. He exhibited several times in Paris and was awarded medals in Munich in 1834 and 1892....
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Osman Hamdi
S. J. Vernoit
[Edhem, Osman HamdiHamdi Bey]
(b Istanbul, Dec 30, 1842; d Eskihisar, Gebze, nr Istanbul, Feb 24, 1910).
Turkish painter, museum director and archaeologist. In 1857 he was sent to Paris, where he stayed for 11 years, training as a painter under Gustave Boulanger and Jean-Léon Gérôme. On returning to Turkey he served in various official positions, including two years in Baghdad as chargé d’affaires, while at the same time continuing to paint. In 1873 he worked on a catalogue of costumes of the Ottoman empire, with photographic illustrations, for the Weltausstellung in Vienna. In 1881 he was appointed director of the Archaeological Museum at the Çinili Köşk, Topkapı Palace, in Istanbul. He persuaded Sultan Abdülhamid II (reg 1876–1909) to issue an order against the traffic in antiquities, which was put into effect in 1883, and he began to direct excavations within the Ottoman empire. As a result he brought together Classical and Islamic objects for the museum in Istanbul, including the Sarcophagus of Alexander, unearthed in Sidon in ...
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Kunelakis, Nicolas
Greek, 19th century, male.
Born 1829, in Chania (Crete); died 1869, in Cairo.
Painter. Religious subjects, genre scenes, portraits.
Kunelakis studied in St Petersburg, Rome and Florence.
Athens (Ethnikí Pinakothíki)
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Kutuzis, Nicolas
Greek, 18th – 19th century, male.
Born 1741, in Zakynthos; died 1813, in Zakynthos.
Painter. Religious subjects, portraits.
Kutuzis was a pupil of Panagiotis Doxaras and studied in Venice.
Athens (Ethnikí Pinakothíki)
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Soutzos, Demetrios
Greek, 19th – 20th century, male.
Born 1871, in Vasiliko; died 29 December 1929.
Painter. Religious subjects. Murals.
Soutzos studied in Athens. He painted religious subjects, frescoes and decorative works in churches.
