#distant landscape

Queen Adelaide (1792-1849)

Artist: Sir Martin Archer Shee (Irish, 1769-1850)

Date: 1836

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom

Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen

Elizabeth Milbanke, Viscountess Melbourne (1752-1818)

Artist: Richard Cosway (English, 1742-1821)

Date: ca. 1784

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom

Description

Lord Byron on his Deathbed

Artist: Joseph Denis Odevaere (Flemish, 1775-1830)

Date: 1826

Medium: Oil painting

Collection: Groeningemuseum Museum, Bruges, Belgium

Description

Lord Byron lies stretched out on his deathbed, his head crowned with laurel wreaths. Beside the bed lies a lyre, the strings of which have broken. On the foot of the bed, the titles of the various literary works of the poet and writer are inscribed in medallions.

Allegory of Rhetoric

Artist: Laurent de La Hyre (French, 1606–1656)

Date: 1650

Medium: Oil on canvas

Mehmed Said Efendi, Ambassador of the Sublime Porte

Artist: Jacques André Joseph Aved (French, 1702–1766)

Date: 1742

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Musée National des Châteaux de Versailles et de Trianon, Paris, France

Yirmisekizzade Mehmed Said Pasha

Yirmisekizzade Mehmed Said Pasha (died October 1761), earlier in his life known as Mehmed Said Efendi (sometimes spelled Sahid Mehemet Effendi in France), was an Ottoman statesman and diplomat. He was Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from October 25, 1755, to April 1, 1756.

He was a son of Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi, ambassador of the Ottoman Empire to France in 1720–21. Mehmed Said was of Georgian descent through his father. His epithet Yirmisekizzade, meaning "son of twenty-eight" in Turkish, is a reference to his father's own epithet Yirmisekiz ("twenty-eight"), a reference to Yirmisekiz Mehmed Çelebi's membership in the 28th battalion (orta) of the Janissaries early in his life.

Mehmed Said was himself dispatched for an embassy in Paris in 1742, as well as another more historically significant one in Sweden in 1733 and Poland, which led to his writing a sefaretname like his father. In Sweden, he succeeded Mustapha Aga as ambassador.

The Miracles of Prophet Elisha

Artist: Giorgio Vasari (Italian, 1511-1574)

Date: c. 1566

Medium: Oil on Wood

Collection: Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence

Description

This composition is a typical example of a painting for private worship, a genre that was popular with Vasari. The subject is a scene from the life of the Prophet Elisha, who during famine saved his people making edible wild herbs. Elisha is one of the biblical prophets whose miracles prefigured those of Christ. A man in the middle ground carries a basket, because Elisha miraculously multiplied the available food.

In spite of the modest size of the work, the artist insists on elaborating a composition of great complexity and refinement, characteristics which would reappear in the profane paintings of the Studiolo executed thirty years later.

Death in the Pot | 2 Kings 4: 38-41, NIV

Elisha returned to Gilgal and there was a famine in that region. While the company of the prophets was meeting with him, he said to his servant, “Put on the large pot and cook some stew for these prophets.”

One of them went out into the fields to gather herbs and found a wild vine and picked as many of its gourds as his garment could hold. When he returned, he cut them up into the pot of stew, though no one knew what they were. The stew was poured out for the men, but as they began to eat it, they cried out, “Man of God, there is death in the pot!” And they could not eat it.

Princess Charlotte (1796-1817)

Artist: George Dawe (English, 1781-1829)

Date: 1817

Medium: Oil on panel

Collection: Royal Collection Trust, London, United Kingdom

Princess Charlotte of Wales