Simon Agopian (1857-1921)
Simon Agopian
The artwork size is 36″x49.5, with framed size 45″x59″.
A very rare collection of Simon Agopian’s work now available for sale.
Simon Agopian was born in Samatya, a district in Istanbul- Turkey in 1857
Graduated in 1888 from Telemak Ekserciyan and entered the Academy of Fine Arts in 1994,
From 1883 onward, Agopian taught art at the Berberyan and Mezburyan schools in Üsküdar, and at the Esayan School near Taksim Square.
– In 1911 Societa Italiana. He won a prize at the Marseille Exhibition for a portrait of his father. He painted a series of Ottoman military successes in his Six Scenes of Victories of Gazi Ahmed Muhtar Paşa on the Eastern Front (1910) which was commissioned by Ahmed Muhtar Pasha’s family.
He also has paintings of Istanbul tradespeople such as simit sellers, fishmongers, and chimney sweepers. Agopyan also painted religious subjects. Examples of the latter are those portraying two of the apostles, Timothy and Parthugiemeos (1888; which he did for the Surp Kevork Church in Samatya).
