Jacob Benjamin Wegner was a Norwegian business magnate, estate owner and timber merchant.
Benjamin Wegner
His wife Henriette Seyler (1805–75), daughter of Berenberg Bank co-owner L.E. Seyler, drawn by her sister Molly in 1827
Cobalt blue, made from cobalt, a precious metal that was more expensive than silver
Blaafarveværket
Edward Solly was an English merchant living in Berlin, who amassed an unprecedented collection of Italian Trecento and Quattrocento paintings and outstanding examples of Early Netherlandish painting, at a time when those schools were still largely unappreciated. In 1821, following negotiations by his associate Benjamin Wegner, Solly sold his collection of about 3000 works to the Prussian king; 677 of them formed a core of the Gemäldegalerie, Berlin. Solly acquired a second collection during his years in London after 1821. Solly is also credited for having undertaken a
perilous journey to deliver the first news of Napoleon's defeat at the Battle of Leipzig to the English.
Portrait of Edward Solly, (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin)
Portrait of a Young Girl, Petrus Christus
Raphael's Solly Madonna