Owners of the Jablje mansion through time and some of their portraits from the 18th and 19th centuries

Abstract

In addition to the famous portrait of Baron Leopold Lichtenberg-Janežič from the 19^th century made by the renowned painter Jožef Tominc, the National Gallery in Ljubljana also holds five portraits belonging to his ancestors from the 18^th century. The restored mansion, a cultural monument of national importance since 1999, now houses several national and international institutions, and keeps interesting stories of the lives of its past owners. The article first provides a brief overview of the owners of the Jablje mansion from the Middle Ages to the mid-18^th century and then proceeds to describe the life stories of persons in the portraits, some of the members of the Schwab-Lichtenberg and Lichtenberg-Janežič families, who held the mansion in their possession until 1941, the year of the death of the last owner, Baroness Hyppolita.