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Flora

Artist: James Smetham (English, 1821-1889)

Date: 19th century

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Private Collection

Myself

Artist: Leopold Gould Seyffert (American, 1887–1956)

Date: 1925

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States

Leopold Seyffert

Leopold Gould Seyffert (1887 – 1956) was an American painter. Born in California, Missouri, and raised in Colorado and then Pittsburgh, his career brought him to New York City, via Philadelphia and Chicago. In New York City, the dealer Macbeth established him as one of the leading portraitists of the 20th century and his over 500 portraits continue to decorate the galleries, rooms and halls of many of America's museums and institutions.

Ayuba Suleiman Diallo

Artist: William Hoare (English, c. 1707-1792)

Date: 1733

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: National Portrait Gallery, London, United Kingdom

Description

Ayuba Suleiman Diallo was an educated man from a family of Muslim clerics in West Africa. In 1731 he was taken into slavery and sent to work on a plantation in America. By his own enterprise, and assisted by a series of spectacular strokes of fortune, Diallo arrived in London in 1733. Recognized as a deeply pious and educated man, in England Diallo mixed with high and intellectual society, was introduced at Court and was bought out of slavery by public subscription. Through the publication of his Memoirs in 1734, Diallo had an important and lasting impact on Britain’s understanding of West African culture, black identity and Islam. In the early years of the nineteenth-century, advocates of the abolition of slavery would cite Diallo as a key figure in asserting the moral rights and humanity of black people.

A Woman Seated beside a Vase of Flowers (Madame Paul Valpinçon?)

Artist: Edgar Degas (French, 1834–1917)

Date: 1865

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY, United States

Description

The sitter is probably the wife of the artist’s schoolboy friend Paul Valpinçon; Degas immensely enjoyed outings to their country house, Ménil-Hubert, and the dahlias, asters, and gaillardias in the bouquet would suggest a late summer visit.

The Bride of Abydos

Artist: James Sant (English, 1820-1916)

Date: n. d.

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Department for Culture, Media and Sport, London, United Kingdom

Description

The Bride of Abydos is a poem written by Lord Byron in 1813. One of his earlier works, The Bride of Abydos is considered to be one of his "Heroic Poems", along with The Giaour, Lara, The Siege of Corinth, The Corsair and Parisina. These poems contributed to his poetic fame at the time in England.

Alexandra Feodorovna

Artist: George Dawe (English, 1781-1829)

Date: 1820's

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: State Historical Museum, St Petersburgh, Russia

Alexandra Feodorovna

Alexandra Feodorovna (6 June [O.S. 25 May] 1872 – 17 July 1918), born Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, was the last Empress of Russia as the consort of Tsar Nicholas II from their marriage on 26 November [O.S. 14 November] 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March [O.S. 2 March] 1917. A granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Alexandra was one of the most famous royal carriers of hemophilia and passed the condition to her son, Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia.