Salvatore Valeri (1856,

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- 30 December 1946, Nettuno) was an Italian painter who spent much of his career as an art teacher in Turkey.

Biography

He studied painting at the

Accademia di San Luca The Accademia di San Luca (the "Academy of Saint Luke") is an Italian academy of artists in Rome. The establishment of the Accademia de i Pittori e Scultori di Roma was approved by papal brief in 1577, and in 1593 Federico Zuccari became its fir ...

in Rome. In 1882, he moved from Italy to the Şişli district in Istanbul, where he opened a small workshop. Not long after, the opened and, on the recommendation of the British Ambassador, Lord Dufferin, he was able to obtain a position as a teacher of oil painting. He would remain there until 1915. The school later became part of the Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University. He exhibited at the Istanbul Salons of 1901, 1902 and 1903.Alev Kahraman, "Ressam Salvatore Valeri ve sanatı", '' Haccettep Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Yüksek Lisans Tezi, 2005''
/ref> His students included the sons of Sultan

Abdul Hamid II Abdülhamid or Abdul Hamid II ( ota, عبد الحميد ثانی, Abd ül-Hamid-i Sani; tr, II. Abdülhamid; 21 September 1842 10 February 1918) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 31 August 1876 to 27 April 1909, and the last sultan to ...

and he was officially granted the title "Teacher of the Princes".Seyhan Kalaycı, "İtalyan gezginlerin resimlerindeki Osmanlı", ''Akademik Bakış Dergisi, Sayı 30, Mayıs-Haziran 2012''
/ref> He was especially well known for his portraits. He married an Armenian woman; Maria Lekegian, the sister of one of his students,

Gabriel Lekegian Gabriel Lekegian (1853 – c. 1920), also known as G. Lékégian, was an Armenian painter and photographer, active in Constantinople and Cairo from the 1880s to the 1920s. Little is known about his life, but he left an important body of work unde ...

. They had a daughter named Italia. He was suspended from teaching during the Italo-Turkish War; returning upon its completion. Three years later, however, he and his family were forced to flee, due to the beginning of the

Armenian genocide The Armenian genocide was the systematic destruction of the Armenians in the Ottoman Empire, Armenian people and identity in the Ottoman Empire during World War I. Spearheaded by the ruling Committee of Union and Progress (CUP), it was ...

. He returned to his hometown, opened a private art school, and operated it until his death in 1946.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Valeri, Salvatore 1856 births 1946 deaths Italian painters Immigrants to the Ottoman Empire Italian emigrants Orientalist painters People from Nettuno Painters from Lazio