xxiv NOTES ON THE ILLUSTRATIONS
Hetman Mielecki, Chancellor Mikolaj Radziwitl, and Jan
Chodkiewicz, (with head in hands). Also present - Frycz
Modrzewski, Prince Roman Sanguszko, Prince Michal
Wisniowiecki, Anna Jagiellonka, Cardinal Hosius, Prince
Ostrogski, Duke Albrecht von Hohenzollern of Prussia.
Muzeum Narodowe (Warsaw).Bernardo Bellotto (1721-80), called 'Caneletto the Younger',
Elekcja Stanislawa Augusta (1776), one of two versions of the
Royal Election of 1764 painted a dozen years after the event.
Muzeum Narodowe (Warsaw).
Plate V J. Matejko, Batory pod Pskowem (1872). King Stefan Bathory
receives the traditional welcome of bread and salt from a depu-
tation of Muscovite boyars; in attendance - Chancellor
Zamoyski, Prince Ostrogski, the Papal Legate Possevino,
Hetman Zolkiewski in hussar's armour, Cossack Ataman
Oryszowski.
Muzeum Narodowe (Warsaw).
(Miniature), Gninski's Embassy to the Porte (1677). Sobieski's
luckless ambassador is ushered into the presence of Sultan
Mehmet IV after a long wait.
Krakow (Czartoryski Collection).
Plate VI (Anon.) Sebastian Lubomirski (1536-1613), founder of the
Lubomirski fortunes — castellan of Wojnicz, zupnik (leaseholder)
of the royal salt mines at Wieliczka, starosta of Spisz.
Muzeum Narodowe (Warsaw).
(Anon.) Katarzyna z Lubomirskich Ostrogska (c. 1600), daugh-
ter of Sebastian Lubomirski and Anna Branicka, second wife of
Prince Janusz Ostrogski (1554-1620), Wojewoda of Volhynia,
Castellan of Cracow, and a Catholic convert from Orthodoxy.
Muzeum Narodowe (Warsaw).
Plate VII Louis de Silvestre (1675-1760), court painter at Dresden and
Warsaw, 1716-48, decorator of the Saxon Palace. Portrait of
August II in armour.
Muzeum Narodowe (Wilanow).Marcello Bacciarelli (1731-1818), principal artistic director of the
royal court from 1766. Portrait of Stanislaw-August in Coronation
Robes, painted c. 1700.
Muzeum Narodowe (Warsaw).Plate VIII Jozef Chelmonski (1849-1914). Polish realist painter, best
known for his scenes of country life, eg. Zorawie (The Cranes,