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# 12 by Edwin Long. Another artist who had traveled to the middle-east, this painting reflects the impressions of those trips. Long depicts Vashti in her vulnerable moment, sadness and resignation, even her crown is on a table at her left perhaps foreshadowing that she will soon have to relinquish it. It is a huge paintings with beautiful details.

[Hebrews 11:6]

That one struck me, too, as the best of the bunch. I kept running across it--there seems to be a near-consensus for it.

Thanks for pointing out the crown, Alba--I hadn't noticed it.