Frederick II, known as Frederick the Quarrelsome, was Duke of Austria and Styria from 1230 until his death. He was the fifth and last Austrian duke from the House of Babenberg, since the former margraviate was elevated to a duchy by the 1156 Privilegium Minus.
Artist: B.Picart
Date:1713
Size 14 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2176
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar succeeded his uncle Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine as titular Duke of Lorraine and Bar in 1675; both duchies were occupied by France from 1634 to 1661 and 1670 to 1697. Born in exile in Vienna, Charles spent his military career in the service of the Habsburg monarchy.
Artist: A.Bloem
Date:1670
Size 16 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2178
Georg Ulrich von Wolkenstein-Rodeneck, Count of Wolkenstein-Rodeneck since 1630 (born November 1, 1598 at Bruck Castle (Lienz); † April 23, 1663 in Regensburg) was a German canon and envoy to the Westphalian Peace Congress and the Frankfurt Deputation Day ( 1643–1645) and the Reichstag in Regensburg in 1653.
Size 17 x 28.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2181
The House of Guise, a branch of the House of Lorraine He is the youngest son of Charles I of Lorraine, Duke of Guise, Count of Eu, and Henriette-Catherine de Joyeuse, Lady of Joinville. Received as a Knight of Malta at a very young age. In 1644, he served at the siege of Gravelines. He died at the siege of Cambrai on September 6, 1653, and was buried in the Saint Laurent collegiate church in Joinville3.
Artist: P.Aubry
Date:
Size 11.5 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2182
English Quaker and public education innovator. He developed, and propagated on the grounds both of economy and efficacy, a monitorial system of primary education. In the first decades of the 19th century his ideas found application in new schools established in growing industrial centres.
Size 11 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2183
Bonchamp-lès-Laval 1761-1844 Also known as Le Breton; pupil of Vincent and David; professeur de dessin et de perspective at the Institution des sourds-muets. The only recorded painting is a portrait (at Pontoise) which received the premier prix Montyon in 1834. A drawing dedicated by him to “Isabey père” in 1844 testifies to his friendship with another David pupil.
Artist: Bouvier
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2184
Nicholas I was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland. He was the third son of Paul I and younger brother of his predecessor, Alexander I. Nicholas’s reign began with the failed Decembrist revolt.
Artist: Haas
Date:1830
Size 11 x 17.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2186
Roman Catholic cardinal and antiquarian
Artist: M.B.
Date:1737
Size 8 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2187
Annibal Albani, born in Urbino in 1682 and died in Rome in 1751, cardinal-bishop of Sabina (1711) and then of Porto and Santa Rufina (1743). He was the nephew of Pope Clement XI and brother of Cardinal Alessandro Albani. This suggests that this vase may have belonged to the cardinal.
Artist: M.J
Date:
Size 9.5 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2189
Son of Louis de La Trémoille, Duke of Noirmoutier, and Renée Julie Aubéry; Bishop of Bayeux, 1716; cardinal, 1706; Archbishop of Cambrai, 1718.
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Date:
Size 9 x 14.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2190