English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751. Gray was an extremely self-critical writer who published only 13 poems in his lifetime, despite being very popular
Artist: Cook
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Size 8 x 12 cms
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English military and political leader. He served as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland “and of the dominions thereto belonging” from 1653 until his death, acting simultaneously as head of state and head of government of the new republic.
Artist: Ridley
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General John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, 1st Prince of Mindelheim, 1st Count of Nellenburg, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire, KG, PC, was an English soldier and statesman whose career spanned the reigns of five monarchs.
Artist: L.Buchhorn
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Size 8 x 10 cms
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English politician, Lord Chancellor of England and a favourite of Elizabeth I of England. He was one of those who found Mary, Queen of Scots, guilty of treason.
Artist: W.H.Mote
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Subject nationality: English
Subject gender: Male
Artist: W.H.Mote
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Size 10 x 13 cms
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Prominent English courtier during the reigns of King James I and King Charles I, but he made his name as a Grand Tourist and art collector rather than as a politician.
Artist: Rubens
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Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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English poet of the Romantic school, one of the Lake Poets along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England’s Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843.
Artist: Lawrence
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Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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English nobleman. He was a grandee and one of the wealthiest peers of the court of Elizabeth I. Under James I, Northumberland was a long-term prisoner in the Tower of London, due to the suspicion that he was complicit in the Gunpowder Plot
Artist: VanDyke
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Size 10 x 13 cms
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English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century, and was a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson
Artist: Reynolds
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Mary I, also known as Mary Tudor, was the queen of England and Ireland from July 1553 until her death. She is best known for her vigorous attempt to reverse the English Reformation, which had begun during the reign of her father, Henry VIII.
Artist: Benoist
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Size 9 x 10 cms
Price £14.00
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