It contains portraits of Handel and Charles Jennens, Handel's friend and librettist of Messiah.

Messiah ( HWV 56 ) is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible, and from the Psalms included with the Book of Common Prayer ( which are worded slightly differently from their King James counterparts ).

In 1735 Handel received the text for a new oratorio named Saul from its librettist Charles Jennens, a wealthy landowner with musical and literary interests.

By 1741, after their collaboration on Saul, a warm friendship had developed between the two, and Handel was a frequent visitor to the Jennens family estate at Gopsall.

Whether Handel originally intended to perform Messiah in Dublin is uncertain ; he did not inform Jennens of any such plan, for the latter wrote to Holdsworth on 2 December 1741: "... it was some mortification to me to hear that instead of performing Messiah here he has gone into Ireland with it.

London's initially cool reception of Messiah led Handel to reduce the season's planned six performances to three, and not to present the work at all in 1744 — to the considerable annoyance of Jennens, whose relations with the composer temporarily soured.

#" How Beautiful Are the Feet " – 3: 35-George Frideric Handel / Charles Jennens

#" I Know That My Redeemer Liveth " – 6: 07-George Frideric Handel / Charles Jennens

* a copy of one of the first biographies of Handel by John Mainwaring, with marginal comments by his friend and librettist Charles Jennens,

The three-part structure of the work approximates to that of Handel's three-act operas, with the " parts " subdivided by Jennens into " scenes ".

A portrait of Charles Jennens from around 1740

Charles Jennens was born around 1700, into a prosperous landowning family whose lands and properties in Warwickshire and Leicestershire he would eventually inherit.

The case of Jennens v Jennens formed part of the inspiration for the Jarndyce and Jarndyce case at the centre of the plot of Bleak House by Charles Dickens.

* Eight-David Jennens, D D Macklin, A L MacLeod, Charles Lloyd, R F A Sharpley, N B M Clack, W A D Windham, E J Worlidge, J F K Hinde-Fourth

Although the musicologist Watkins Shaw dismisses Jennens as " a conceited figure of no special ability ", Donald Burrows has written: " of Jennens's musical literacy there can be no doubt ".

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