Sir Nathaniel Bacon, KB was an English painter, landowner and horticulturist from Culford, Suffolk
Engraving by T. Chambars after a self portrait
Size 28 x 22 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3753/515
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury 1563-1612
Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, KG, PC was an English statesman and alleged spymaster noted for his direction of the government during the Union of the Crowns, as Tudor England gave way to Stuart rule
J.Cochran after Federico Zuccaro 1833
Size 23 x 17 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3752/515
Tobias Rustat 1608 -1694
Courtier to King Charles II and a benefactor of the University of Cambridge. He is remembered for creating the first fund for the purchase of books at the Cambridge University Library. He was an investor in, and Assistant of, the Royal African Company, an English mercantile company involved in the slave trade.
Engraving by W. N. Gardiner (after Kneller, 1682)
Size 24 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3751/515
Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester 1601-1667
Edward Somerset, 2nd Marquess of Worcester, styled Lord Herbert of Raglan from 1628 to 1644, was an English Catholic nobleman involved in royalist politics, and an inventor. While Earl of Glamorgan, he was sent by Charles I to negotiate a peace treaty and alliance with the leadership of the Catholic Irish Confederacy.
by John Henry Robinson, after Sir Anthony van Dyck
Size 30 x 22 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3750/515
Sir John Gilmour of Craigmillar 1605 -1671
Scottish judge and politician, who served as Lord President of the Court of Session from 1661 to 1670. He was the son of John Gilmour, Writer to the Signet, and became an advocate on 12 December 1628.
Artist Charles Reuben Ryley 1752-1798
Size 22 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3749/515
Christina Queen of Sweden 1626-1689
Christina, a member of the House of Vasa, was Queen of Sweden from 1632 until her abdication in 1654. Her conversion to Catholicism and refusal to marry led her to relinquish her throne and move to Rome.
Size 12 x 7 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3748/515
Admiral Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford 1653-1727
Admiral of the Fleet Edward Russell, 1st Earl of Orford, PC, JP was a Royal Navy officer and politician. After serving as a junior officer at the Battle of Solebay during the Third Anglo-Dutch War, he served as a captain in the Mediterranean Sea in operations against the Barbary pirates.
Engraver Thomas Cook 1775
Size 21 x 16 cms
Price £16.00
Ref:3745
Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland 1641-1702
Robert Spencer, 2nd Earl of Sunderland, KG, PC was an English nobleman and politician of the Spencer family. An able and gifted statesman, his caustic temper and belief in absolute monarchy nevertheless made him numerous enemies.
Engraver W.H.Mote 1836
Size 27 x 19 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3744
William Dunbar 1661-1746
William Dunbar, M.A. was a Scottish Episcopal clergyman who served as the Bishop of Moray and Ross (1727–35) and Bishop of Aberdeen (1733–1745)
Artist H.Adlard
Size 25 x 17 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3743
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle
William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, KG, KB, PC, who after 1665 styled himself as Prince William Cavendish, was an English courtier and supporter of the arts. He was a renowned horse breeder, as well as being patron of the playwright Ben Jonson and the intellectual group known as the Welbeck Circle.
Engraver W.H.Mote
Size 25 x 18 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3742