THE WORLDWIDE FAMOUS PAINTERS

Ali Rıza
He was born in üsküdar in 1858, Ali Riza Bey gave evidence even as a child of his talent for painting
and drawing his spend his all life in Üsküdar.
He was known as “Üsküdarlı Ali Rıza” .
He was the first painter to paint on countryside. Among his works one finds symbols through which
the past may be imagined, for example narrow streets, old wooden buildings about to collapse,
bay-windowed houses leaning against each other in warmth, mosques, fountains and graveyards.
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