"Esther" is the name of a painting by Edwin Long

Edwin Long

Edwin Longsden Long RA was an English genre, history, biblical and portrait painter.-Life and works:Long was born in Bath, Somerset, the son of E. Long, an artist , and was educated at Dr. Viner's School in Bath. Adopting the profession of a painter, Long came to London and studied in the British...

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The painter drew upon travelogue illustrations in the British Museum

British Museum

The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its...

 in order to produce this vision of Queen Esther in Ahasuerus' palace at Susa

Susa

Susa was an ancient city of the Elamite, Persian and Parthian empires of Iran. It is located in the lower Zagros Mountains about east of the Tigris River, between the Karkheh and Dez Rivers....

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The painting was first displayed in 1878 at the Royal Academy.

It's now a part of the collection Pérez Simón.

The painting was meant to be hung next to a work depicting Vashti

Vashti

Queen Vashti is the first wife of King Ahasuerus in the Book of Esther, a book included in the Hebrew Bible and read on the Jewish holiday of Purim. She is banished for her refusal to appear at the king's banquet, and Esther is chosen to succeed her as queen. In the Midrash, Vashti is described...

in a similar painting that is now housed in the Museum & Gallery at Bob Jones University.