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<table cellspacing="8" cellpadding="0" style="width:100%; clear:both; margin:0.5em auto; border:1px solid #aaa; background:#F0FFF0;"><tbody><tr><td><b>La Colecciòn de Retratos de los Presidentes del Coloniaje</b>. The collection of Portraits of the Governors of Chile is in the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Museo_Hist%C3%B3rico_Nacional_(Chile)" title="Category:Museo Histórico Nacional (Chile)">Museo Histórico Nacional (Chile)</a> and was commissioned by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjam%C3%ADn_Vicu%C3%B1a_Mackenna" class="extiw" title="w:Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna">Benjamín Vicuña Mackenna</a> for the 1873 Colonial Exhibition and painted by various artists. It replaces a series of portraits of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Governor_of_Chile" class="extiw" title="w:Royal Governor of Chile">Chile's colonial governors</a> dating from the colonial era which was destroyed during the wars for independence. <a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="http://curlew.cch.kcl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/rands/q_img.pl?@i3B0049">[1]</a>.
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19<sup>th</sup> century <div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1850-00-00T00:00:00Z/7</div>
Museo Histórico Nacional de Chile