Ottoman School (19th Century) Portrait Of Sultan Murad I. Gouache And Watercolour #8

OTTOMAN SCHOOL (19th century)
Portrait of Sultan Murad I.
Gouche and watercolor on paper.
Titled at the bottom in a cartouche in Arabic and Latin characters “Sultan Murad”
Framed under glass
Height: 28 cm, Length: 20 cm (at sight)
Good condition.
#8 Murad I. Khodāvandgār, literally “the devotee of God”, meaning “ruler” in this context, born June 29, 1326 and died June 15, 1389, was Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1362 to 1389. He was the son of Orhan Gazi and Nilüfer Hatun. Murad I ascended the throne after the death of his older half-brother, Süleyman Pasha.
Murad I conquered Adrianople in the 1360s and made it the new capital of the Ottoman sultanate. He then expanded the Ottoman kingdom into Southern Europe by placing most of the Balkans under Ottoman rule and forced the princes of Serbia and Bulgaria as well as the Byzantine emperor John V Palaiologos to pay him tribute.Murad I administratively divided his sultanate into two provinces, Anatolia (Asia Minor) and Roumelia (the Balkans).
According to Ottoman sources, Murad I’s titles included Bey, Emîr-i a’zam (Great Emir), Ghazi, Hüdavendigâr, Khan, Padishah, Sultânü’s-selâtîn (Sultan of Sultans), Melikü’l-mülûk (Malik of the Maliks), while in Bulgarian and Serbian sources, he was called Tsar. In a Genoese document he was called dominus armiratorum Turchie (Master Lord of the Turks).