Siyavush Beg Gurji
(Persian, born Georgia, ca. 1536 - 1616)
Person TypeArtist/Maker
(Italian, active 1860 - 1865)
(English, 1889 - 1960)
BiographyBorn in Georgia, captured and enslaved as a boy and brought to Tabriz. Siyavush became a painter, studying under Muzaffar 'Ali in the court of Shah Tahmasp I.