Portrait of Mehmed II
Creator
Gentile Bellini
Subject
Mehmed II, Sultan of the Turks, 1432-1481.
Portraits, Turkish
Description
Sold at bazaar by his iconoclastic son, Sultan Bayezid II, and purchased by a Venetian merchant. Bought in Venice by British Ambassador Sir Austen Henry Layard, whose widow donated it to the National Gallery in London in 1917.
Original Date
1480
Digitized Date
Wed, 10/03/2001
Original Media
image
Original Format
image/slide
Digital Format
image/tif 800dpi
Local Identifier
dh12
Source
Doug Howard
Copyright
Doug Howard