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Emperor Daoguang, also known by his temple name Emperor Xuanzong of Qing, born Aixing-Gioro Mianning, was the seventh emperor of the Qing Dynasty and the sixth Qing emperor to rule China from 1820 to 1850.
As emperor and head of the country, Daoguang was weak. His 30-year reign was accompanied by internal and external problems, chief among them the First Opium War and the outbreak of the Taiping Rebellion. The country he led also experienced growing economic tensions, sectarian instability, and active foreign interference, which eventually led to the collapse of the Qing dynasty in 1911.
Adolph Jebens was a German painter of the mid-nineteenth century. He is known as a portrait painter and battle-painter.
Jebens moved to Russia in 1844 and became a teacher of painting at the Drawing School of the Imperial Society for the Encouragement of Arts. He created several portraits commissioned by His Imperial Majesty's Cabinet, including a portrait of Emperor Nicholas I. The artist was especially famous for his series of paintings devoted to the Russian army, of which 137 canvases are known. His works are represented in various museums, including the Hermitage, the Russian Museum, imperial palaces and many museums in Germany and Poland.
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Johann Emil Rudolf Herrmann, known as Hans, was a German landscape and genre painter. He specialized in scenes of the Netherlands.
