The Portrait Gallery

Maria Leopoldina d'Austria (1797-1826)
When Brazil became independent, the country kept the monarchy, with Pedro I of Braganza as our emperor and his wife, Maria Leopoldina of Habsburg, Archduquess of Austria, as our empress.

Born in the Habsburg household and daugther to the Holy Roman Emperor, Francis Joseph. Leopoldina received a good education, to the standards set by her grandfather, Leopold II.
In 1816, her father got knowledge that Pedro of Braganza, prince of Portugal and regent of Brazil, wished to have a Habsburg as his wife, and he sent then Leopoldina. Leopoldina accepted and went to Brazil.
During her travel, he studied Brazilian geography and wrote a Vade Mecum about Portuguese, language she learned on her way.
Leopoldina was one of the key figfures on Brazil's independence. She was way more educated than Pedro I and a better diplomat. She played a great role on the Declaration of Independence, document she signed.
Unlike the European Habsburgs, Leopoldina didn't wished to enact a despotic government, but a constitutional and more liberal one, pressing for a Constitutional government with some Illuminist ideals.
As time passed, Leopoldina discovered that Pedro I had a mistress, and that stuck a major blow on her health. She became ill, and died not much after, at age 29.

As Plague said, the green portion of the Brazilian flag references the Braganza dynasty, from Pedro I.
The yellow portion, on the other hand, is the Habssburg color, in honor to Maria Leopoldina, one of the true minds behind the independence process.
(Sorry, I had some problems with the image hahaha)

Interesting that she acted so enlightened as a Habsburg and limited the power of the monarchy. Over here Habsburg rule was quite firm in that time. Minister Meternich imposed a strong cenzure after the Napoleonic period. No talks about a constitution until 1848 and even afterwards it was little more than a joke.

This is baron Žiga Zois von Edelstein (1747-1819). He was the richest Slovene of his time and a great sponsor to science and culture. In his home in Ljubljana he gathered most of the important figures of the Slovene Enlightenment, who produced numerous important works and achievements both for our people and broader. Zois himself was a man of many interests, he wrote several poems, translated Italian works into Slovene, but he was also fond of ornitology, zoology, botany and especially mineralogy. There's even a mineral named after him - zoisite. Together with his circle of enlightened intelectuals he laid the foundation for the further development of the nation in the 19th century.

Zois also suffered from gout, which is why he designed a wheelchair together with his blacksmith, so he could move around his home.