Edinburgh-born Andrew Geddes was a Scottish Academic painter of portraits, landscapes and was also an accomplished etcher. Here we see the renowned Englishman Charle Bruce in the exotic attire of a Turk, sitting cross-legged and smoking a hookah, as the Roman ruins of old Constantinople, now Istanbul can be seen in the background.
Charles Lenox Cumming-Bruce in Turkish Dress, c.1817, Oil on PanelAndrew Geddes Scotland (1783 - 1844) |
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Edinburgh-born Andrew Geddes was a Scottish Academic painter of portraits, landscapes and was also an accomplished etcher. Here we see the renowned Englishman Charle Bruce in the exotic attire of a Turk, sitting cross-legged and smoking a hookah, as the Roman ruins of old Constantinople, now Istanbul can be seen in the background. |
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