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Next to the room with paintings by Rayski, this time mid-19th century portraits are on view pointing to the immense treasures of 19th century painting of the collection. Works of Dresden based portrait painters will be seen in the selection just as those by such famous artists like Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller and Franz Krüger. The high artistic quality of this genre becomes obvious in a time when portrait photography had not been as popular yet. Among the paintings, the portrait of Wilhelmine Schröder-Devrient by Carl Begas the Elder has to be mentioned, whose suggestive presence of an exceptional person is shown quite plainly.