As a youth he studied in Italy and upon returning to the Ottoman Empire, he was an artist for the royal court of Osman III, Mustafa III, Mahmud I.
Considered as the world's first institution of higher learning in 1773, the university was founded by Sultan Mustafa III as the Imperial Naval Engineers' School (original name: Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Humayun), and it was originally dedicated to the training of ship builders and cartographers.
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Mihrişah Valide Sultan (died 1805), the Genoese consort of Ottoman sultan Mustafa III, and the mother of sultan Selim III
Emine Mihrişah Sultan (died 1732), the French second concubine of Ottoman sultan Ahmed III, and the mother of sultan Mustafa III