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The fantasy temple was probably commissioned for the 1762 wedding of Jane Majendie and Capt.

Sandby, who had designed a marble chimney piece for one of the rooms, was probably commissioned to paint the two views as a celebration of the architectural achievement.

The Stewart portrait was probably commissioned by the libertine Francis Rawdon Hastings, second Earl of Moira and first Marquess of Hastings.

Mr. Brown and his collaborators explain in their catalog notes that this double portrait, which was probably commissioned by its subjects' affluent, merchant-class parents, symbolically offers "a parable of modern Japan with its two appearances and two personalities".

Franco Mormando, a Jesuit and professor of Italian literature at Boston College who did extensive archival research on the painting, said it was probably commissioned as an ex-voto during a minor outbreak of the plague in Venice.

The latter takes its name from the rare green marble in which it is carved from a quarry in Egypt, where it was probably commissioned by Caesar's adopted son, the future emperor Augustus, who was to make his benefactor's legacy, financial and political, into a form of government that was to endure until the fall of Constantinople in 1453.

Certain portraits were probably commissioned by people other than the subjects.

Different people probably wrote Doqu and Stuxnet, the first two state-sponsored viruses to surface in recent years, they said, but all four were probably commissioned by the same state-sponsored entity.

The tipping point was probably a commission for the "Fourth Grace" for Liverpool's historic waterfront: Alsop beat Norman Foster and Richard Rogers to win the prestigious competition with his radical "cloud" structure, but it proved a poisoned chalice.

Archie Duncan has shown that it was probably Jocelin who first commissioned the writing of the Chronicle of Melrose.

The apotheosis of King James I may seem a surreal subject today for an artistic masterpiece, and it was probably a misguided commission in the 17th century when James's son, the art connoisseur Charles I, was to be executed outside this very building.