Françoise de Graffigny, born Françoise d’Issembourg of Buisson d’Happoncourt, better known as Madame de Graffigny, was a French novelist, playwright and salon hostess.
Artist: Leveque
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Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni 1695-1766
Jean-Nicolas Servan, also known as Giovanni Niccolò Servandoni was a French decorator, architect, scene-painter, firework designer and trompe-l’œil specialist. He was born in Florence, the son of a French carriage driver.
Artist: Colson
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Claude-Nicolas Le Cat 1700 – 1768
Famous French surgeon and urologist of the 18th century
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Benoit Louis Henriquez, After Jean-Bernard Restout (1732 – 1796)
Date:1771
Size 18 x 24 cms
Price £28.00
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Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan 1678-1771
Jean-Jacques d’Ortous de Mairan was a French geophysicist, astronomer and most notably, chronobiologist, was born in the town of Béziers on 26 November 1678. De Mairan lost his father, François d’Ortous, at age four and his mother twelve years later at age sixteen.
Engraving by Pierre-Charles Ingouf 1746–1800
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Charles Francois Panard 1689-1765
Charles-François Panard, or Pannard, was an 18th-century French poet, chansonnier, playwright and goguettier
Artist: Du Roncerai
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Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux 1688-1763
Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French novelist and dramatist. He is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century, writing numerous comedies for the Comédie-Française and the Comédie-Italienne of Paris.
Artist: Miger
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Size 19 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
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Émilie du Châtelet 1706-1749
Gabrielle Émilie Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet was a French natural philosopher, mathematician, physicist, and author during the early 1730s until her untimely death due to childbirth in 1749
Artist: Lemperiur
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Size 28 x 25 cms
Price £38.00
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Charles Jean Francois Henault 1685-1770
Hénault was born in Paris. His father, René Jean Rémy Hénault de Cantobre (1648–1737) a farmer-general of taxes, Ferme générale, was a man of literary tastes, and young Hénault obtained a good education at the Jesuit college, Lycée Louis-le-Grand. His mother was Françoise de Ponthon (died 1738)
Artist: Voyez
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Size 18 x 27 cms
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Ottavio Piccolomini 1599-1656 Count Aragonia
Ottavio Piccolomini, 1st Duke of Amalfi was an Italian nobleman whose military career included service as a Spanish general and then as a field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire:
Size 14 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
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Johann Heinrich von Dünewald 1617-1691
von Dünewald’s parents were Lorenz and Katharina von Dünewald. He was first in Swedish, later in imperial service. He distinguished himself in the Battle of St. Gotthard in 1664. He became a major general and was given command of a cuirassier regiment in 1670, which he was to lead for over twenty years. He later helped to defeat the French at Sasbach under Raimondo Montecuccoli and was therefore elevated to the rank of count by Emperor Leopold I in 1675 and became a general of the cavalry. When Vienna was besieged by the Turks, he defended Krems and defeated a strong Turkish military detachment there. He then helped end the siege of Vienna and led the pursuit of the Turks after the Battle of Kahlenberg. At Párkány on October 9, 1683 and at the siege of Gran on October 24, 1683 he fought under Duke Charles V of Lorraine. Dünewald then led the Swabian auxiliary troops to the first in 1684.
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
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