extensive jewellery on his equipment and clothes that was available to him because of the conquests of nader shahy in the 17th century for portraiture and decorative painting. so it came there as an inheritance from the past. during the 19th century, there were a number of really interesting painters who emerged in iran — and one of them was isma'iljalayir. the painting that we have in the exhibition shows the harem of an important person. they are having tea on a balcony overlooking a park with very large trees. the portraits of the women — their faces have an incredible stillness. i think what's happened is that isma'iljalayir wouldn't have had access, and so he's been given photographs of them in order to create the painting. that sort of leads us through to the 20th century — and there, we show examples of the art of iran after the introduction of art school training in the western—style in the 19405, and how iran in the 19605 and '705 developed a form of modernism that was in tune with international movements, but also had artists who were creating specifically iranian works of art. and now,