Jean Baptiste Vanmour (1671 -1737)

• Was a Flemish-French painter.
• Vanmour is remembered for his detailed portrayal of life in the Ottoman Empire during the Tulip Era and the rule of Sultan Ahmed III.
• In 1727 the Dutch ambassador Cornelis Calkoen asked Van Mour to record his audience with Sultan Ahmed III on canvas.
• Van Mour was allowed to enter the palace during these ceremonies accompanying the ambassador and his retinue.
• Calkoen took many paintings of Jean Baptiste Van Mour with him, when he was appointed as ambassador in Dresden for the Dutch Republic.
• In his will of 1762 the bachelor Calkoen forbade his heirs to sell the paintings, which are now part of the Rijksmuseum collection.
• The displayed painting is a crop from: Turkish Woman at her Embroidery Frame, c. 1720 - c. 1737.
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