Llewellyn, Briony, and Claude Piening: Painters of the Ottoman World. Volume I: British, Maltese and Levantine Artists in the Omer Koc Collection. Volume II: European Artists. 2 volumes. 2024. 840 pages in total, fully illustrated in colour. Hardback. 35 x 26cms. Over 160 artists and 650 works in the Omer Koc collection are presented in 8 parts, exploring how Orientalist artworks blended Venetian, English, Turkish, and Moroccan elements (George Romney, Enoch Seeman, Matthew William Peters), artists who accompanied envoys (Luigi Mayer, Thomas Hope, Francois Louis Gues), the Grand Tourists discovery of the Ottoman East during the Napoleonic Wars, the Romantics (John Frederick Lewis, Edward Lear, and Sir David Wilkie), depictions of the Ottoman Empire's more remote parts (David Roberts, William James Muller and James Skene), British and Maltese portrayals of Constantinople (Amadeo Preziosi, James Robertson, Jerry Barrett and Joseph Schranz), ideas of an 'exotic East' and Frank Brangwyn and Edward Seago's unsentimental response to Orientalism.
Over 160 artists and 650 works in the Omer Koc collection are presented in 8 parts, exploring how Orientalist artworks blended Venetian, English, Turkish, and Moroccan elements (George Romney, Enoch Seeman, Matthew William Peters), artists who accompanied envoys (Luigi Mayer, Thomas Hope, Francois Louis Gues), the Grand Tourists discovery of the Ottoman East during the Napoleonic Wars, the Romantics (John Frederick Lewis, Edward Lear, and Sir David Wilkie), depictions of the Ottoman Empire's more remote parts (David Roberts, William James Muller and James Skene), British and Maltese portrayals of Constantinople (Amadeo Preziosi, James Robertson, Jerry Barrett and Joseph Schranz), ideas of an 'exotic East' and Frank Brangwyn and Edward Seago's unsentimental response to Orientalism.