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Portrait of William Cavendish, 4th Earl and 1st Duke of Devonshire, c.1690-1710

3934292 Portrait of William Cavendish, 4th Earl and 1st Duke of Devonshire, c.1690-1710 (oil on canvas) by Kneller, Godfrey (1646-1723); 214.6x139.7 cm; Collection of the Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth House, UK; (add.info.: Portrait of William Cavendish, 4th Earl and 1st Duke of Devonshire (1641-1707) sitter was the son of William, 3rd Earl of Devonshire, and his wife Lady Elizabeth Cecil, daughter of the 2nd Earl of Salisbury. In 1662 he married Lady Mary Butler, daughter of the 1st Duke of Ormond.); © Devonshire Collection, Chatsworth; Reproduced by permission of Chatsworth Settlement Trustees; English, out of copyright

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Notables assembled in the Abbey annexe at 1937 Coronation

Ecclesiastics, distinguished officers of state and regalia bearers awaiting the arrival of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth in the tapestried hall of the temporary annexe of Westminster Abbey. On the extreme left is Viscount Lascelles, elder son of the Princess Royal, one of the King's train-bearers. The group left centre consists of the Duke of Buccleuch, the Lord Steward; Field-Marshal Lord Milne, bearer of the Second Sword; the Earl of Cromer, the Lord Chamberlain; and the Duchess of Norfolk, canopy bearer to the Queen. The two ecclesiastics standing in the centre are the Archbishop of York and the Bishop of London (bearer of the paten), while the group on the right foreground consists of the Duke of Abercorn, one of the four Knights of the Garter appointed to hold the canopy for the King's Anointing; the Earl of Lytton, another canopy-bearer; Major Algar H. S. Howard, Norroy King of Arms; and Lord Hailsham the Lord Chancellor. Date: 1937

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Peter the Great, Russian Tsar

Peter the Great (1685-1766), Russian Tsar. When he became Tsar, Peter modernized and expanded his realm, fighting several wars and founding the Russian Empire in 1721 at the Treaty of Nystad. This portrait, showing him in ceremonial armour with imperial regalia, is a work of oil on canvas, by the French portrait painter Jean-Marc Nattier (1685-1766). A battle scene is in the background at lower right. Nattier painted several portraits of the Tsar, including ones made in the period 1715 to 1717, during visits Peter made to both Amsterdam and Paris. This portrait is kept at the State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

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