Mihri Müşfik Hanım
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| Born | Mihri Achba 26 February 1886 Baklatarlası, Kadıköy, Istanbul, Ottoman Empire |
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c. 1954 New York City, United States |
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| Burial | Pauper's graveyard, Hart Island, New York | ||||
| Spouse | Müşfik Selami Bey | ||||
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| House | House of Anchabadze | ||||
| Father | Ahmed Rasim Pasha Achba | ||||
| Mother | Fatma Neședil Hanım | ||||
| Religion | Islam | ||||
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Mihri Achba, Mihri Müşfik Hanım, Mihri Rasim (26 February 1886 – c. 1954) was one of the first and renowned Turkish female painter. She was the first contemporary female artist to study paintings. She was recognized especially for her portraits. She made the portraits of very well-known people, including Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Pope Benedict XV.
The eccentric and bohemian painter Mihri Müşfik Hanım was born into the Anchabadze dynasty as an Anchabadze princess, in the Rasim Pasha Mansion, Baklatarlası neighborhood of Kadıköy in Istanbul on 26 February 1886. Her Abkhazian father, Prince Dr. Ahmed Rasim Pasha, was an anatomy specialist and a preeminent instructor in the Military School of Medicine. In formal documents and family letters, he is also referred to as the president of this institution. Dr. Ahmed Rasim Pasha's refined tastes and interest in music, painting, and in literature must have played an important role in the artistic formation of his daughter. In addition to his reputation as a physician, Rasim Pasha was also famous for his interest in music and for playing the saz at evening gatherings. In these activities, he serves as a telling example of the Istanbul elites of the period for displaying as 'occidental versatility'. in their lives. Mihri Hanım's Abkhazian mother, Princess Fatma Neședil Hanım, was one of Rasim Pasha's wives. Her younger sister Enise Hanım was mother to the painter Hale Asaf, another distinguished female artist of the late Ottoman society.
Given a typical western education, Mihri Hanım took an interest in literature, music, and painting. Her first private lessons in painting were provided by an Italian Orientalist artist, Fausto Zonaro, in his studio in the Istanbul quarter of Beşiktaş-Akaretler. Mihri Hanım fell in love with the Italian director of an acrobat company visiting Istanbul, and subsequently departed for Rome and then Paris, evidently wishing to be involved in art circles. For a time she lived and worked in a flat in Montparnasse, sustaining herself by painting portraits and subletting one of rooms to students. One of these tenants was Müşfik Selami Bey, a student of politics at the University of Sorbonne, whom she later married. Müşfik Bey was the son of Selami Bey, a well-known personage from Bursa. He was interested in politics, history, and literature. The date of her marriage with him is unknown.
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