Konstantin Kapıdağlı

Konstantin Kapıdağlı (born Konstantinos Kyzikinos; Greek: Κωνσταντῖνος Κυζικηνός) was an Ottoman Greek court painter from the late 18th century to the early 19th century.

Most of the sultans were deceased at the time of creation, and hence the faces are idealistic and imaginative.

The project resumed with John Young, who published his Series of Portraits of the Emperors of Turkey in 1815 under the reign of Sultan Mahmud II.

Kapıdağlı's Sultan Selim III Enthroned at a Holiday Ceremony is one of the first oil on canvas paintings by an Ottoman artist.

[2] He also experimented with three-dimensional perspectival construction, which were not common in Ottoman regions at the time (in contrast to European paintings).