Reshid Bey was a Victorian painter and teacher. Born in Berlin when his father was Turkish ambassador there, he came to Australia, his mother’s homeland, when he was a young man. He studied in London and Paris, at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, and under AD Colquhoun. He was a member of the Twenty Melbourne Painters’ Society. Having exhibited at a number of venues including the Paris salons and the British Portrait Painters’ Society, he later taught art at his own school. The National Portrait Gallery acquired Bey’s painting of Allan Lowe in 2000 and his painting of Lawrence Hartnett in 2003.
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