Nermin Sultan

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Nermin Sultan
Born27 January 1923
Üsküdar Palace,
Ottoman Turkish: حمیده نرمین نزاھت سلطان
FatherŞehzade Mahmud ŞevketMotherAdile HanımsultanReligionSunni Islam

Hamide Nermin Nezahet Sultan (

Ottoman Turkish: حمیدہ نرمین نزاھت سلطان; "praised", "softness, delicate" and "prosperity", 27 January 1923 – 7 November 1998) was an Ottoman princess, the daughter of Şehzade Mahmud Şevket, son of Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin and Nervaliter Hanım and Adile Hanımsultan, daughter of Mehmed Kemaleddin Pasha and Naime Sultan
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Biography

Hamide Nermin Nezahat Sultan was born on 27 January 1923 in the Üsküdar Palace.[1][2][3] Her father was Şehzade Mahmud Şevket, son of Şehzade Mehmed Seyfeddin and Nervaliter Hanım.[2][4] Her mother was Adile Hanımsultan, daughter of Mehmed Kemaleddin Pasha and Naime Sultan.[2] She developed bone tuberculosis from a young age which remained throughout her life.[3][5]

At the exile of the imperial family in March 1924, Nermin settled in Nice, France with her grandmother Naime Sultan, bacause she argued that the couple were too young and inexperienced to care for the daughter.[3][6] Her parents settled in Egypt, where they divorced in 1928.[2]

Nermin and her grandmother lived in Cimiez. Henri Matisse, one of the most prominent French painters lived in her neighbouring house, and one day he met Nermin, whom he found really beautiful.[3][6] Matisse requested Nermin to become model for his painting, therefore in 1942 the painting Odalisque Au Fauteuil Noir was published after Nermin's consent.[7] The painting later rose to prominence, and in 2015 it was put on sale for €15 million at Sotheby's auction in London.[3][6]

During the outbreak of

Algerian War of Independence.[3][6][7]

Following the independence of Algeria from France, Nermin moved to Bagnols-sur-Cèze to live with her father Mahmud. After her father's death in 1973, she started to receive his pension.[10] Nermin became penniless after her father's death, and remained bedridden until her death.[3][6][7]

Nermin died on 7 November 1998 at a local hospital's ward at the age of seventy five and was buried there.[5][3][6]

Ancestry

References

  1. ^ Adra, Jamil (2005). Genealogy of the Imperial Ottoman Family 2005. pp. 25–26.
  2. ^ a b c d Bağce 2008, p. 58.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j "Muhtaçlar koğuşunda can veren Osmanlı prensesinin tablosu rekor fiyattan mezatta". Habertürk. 4 January 2015. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
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  5. ^ a b Bağce 2008, p. 59.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h "Portrait of Ottoman Sultan on sale for 15 million euros". Daily Sabah. 26 November 2014. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  7. ^ a b c d e "Matisse tablosunun sultanı yoksullar koğuşunda öldü". Hürriyet. 14 February 1999. Retrieved 17 April 2022.
  8. ^ Bağce 2008, p. 100.
  9. ^ Bağce 2008, pp. 100–101.
  10. ^ a b Ekinci, Ekrem Buğra (9 December 2021). "An Ottoman prince on the throne of Palestine". Daily Sabah. Retrieved 3 May 2022.

Sources

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