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About Vortigern and Rowena
Vortigern and Rowena, also known by the longer title Vortigern, King of Britain, Enamoured with Rowena at the Banquet of Hengist the Saxon General, is a 1770 history painting by the Swiss artist Angelica Kauffman. It depicts a mythical scene in the early period of Anglo-Saxon England. Hengest, the Saxon warlord has set out to win over the British king Vortigern with the beauty of his daughter Rowena. The subject had featured in a notable image produced by the Irish illustrator Nicholas Blakey in the 1750s, and Kauffman drew on this while making significant changes.
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