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Probably the portrait of Abdullah Efendi (1680?–1743). This clergyman of Greek descent was working at the court from 1718 as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shaykh_al-Isl%C4%81m" class="extiw" title="en:Shaykh al-Islām">Shaykh al-Islām</a> and was deposed after the Revolution of 1730. He was exiled, but returned to Istanbul in silence, where he died in 1743. Abdullah owned a large collection of legal and religious documents and was instrumental in the introduction of the printing press in the Ottoman Empire.</div>
<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Jean_Baptiste_Vanmour" class="extiw" title="w:en:Jean Baptiste Vanmour"><span title="Flemish-French painter (1671-1737)">Jean Baptiste Vanmour</span></a>
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Circa 1727-1730
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