As a young man, he ignored his father's ambitions and trained at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris, later departing for Istanbul, where he made a series of drawings for the British ambassador.
On je kao mladić ignorisao ambicije svog oca i pohađao je Školu lepih umetnosti u Parizu, a kasnije je otišao u Istanbul gde je uradio seriju slika za britanskog ambasadora.