Imperial commander and general constable
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2193
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Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741-1790
Joseph II is one of the best-known representatives of Enlightened Absolutism. As a monarch he was indebted to the ideas of Enlightenment rationalism and implemented numerous reforms in the Habsburg Monarchy, some of them far-reaching, in the name of ‘usefulness’.
Artist: Nilson
Date:1765
Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2194
Charles Frederick II of Württemberg-Oels 1690-1761
Son of the Duke Christian Ulrich I of Württemberg-Oels (1652–1704) from his second marriage to Duchess Sibylle Marie of Saxe-Merseburg (1667–1693), daughter of the Duke Christian I of Saxe-Merseburg. When his father died in 1704, Charles Frederick married on 21 April 1709 in Stuttgart with Sibylle Charlotte (1690–1735), the daughter of Duke Frederick Ferdinand of Württemberg-Weiltingen, a grandson of Julius Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Weiltingen.
Artist: J.M.B.
Date:
Size 8.5 x 14.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2195
Frederick Louis of Württemberg-Winnental 1690-1734
German general of the eighteenth century.
He was the third son of Frederick Charles of Württemberg-Winnental and Margravine Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2196
Nicholas I, Count of Salm-Neuburg 1459-1530
Austrian nobleman and imperial military commander. His greatest achievement was his command of the defense of Vienna during the 1529 siege by the Ottoman Turks.
Artist: Stober
Date:
Size 8 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2197
Carl Joseph Begas 1794-1854
His family (originally “Begasse”) came from Belgium, in the region near Verviers and Liège. He was the third child of Franz Anton Begasse (1764–1842), a judge, and his wife, Susanne née Hoffstadt. In 1802, they moved to Cologne, where he received his first artistic training from the miniaturist, Franz Katz [de]. Later, he studied at the Lyceum in Bonn with Clemens August Philippart (1751–1825). In 1813, he went to Paris, where he became a student of Antoine-Jean Gros. While there, shortly after the Battle of Paris, his talent was noticed by King Friedrich Wilhelm III, who bought one of his works and became his patron. He remained in Paris until 1821. His first works dealt exclusively with Christian themes.
Artist: Weger
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2198
General Martín Francisco Javier Mina y Larrea 1789-1817
General Martín Francisco Javier Mina y Larrea, nicknamed El Mozo or El Estudiante, was a Spanish lawyer and army officer, who later became a Mexican independence figure.
Artist: Julio Alvarez
Date:
Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2199
Francisco Javier Mina 1789-1817
General Martín Francisco Javier Mina y Larrea, nicknamed El Mozo or El Estudiante, was a Spanish lawyer and army officer, who later became a Mexican independence figure.
Artist: Julio Alvarez
Date:
Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2200
François Dominique de Reynaud, Comte de Montlosier 1755-1838
François Dominique de Reynaud, Comte de Montlosier, was a notable French politician and political writer during the First French Empire, Bourbon Restoration and July Monarchy. He was the youngest of a large family belonging to the poorer nobility
Artist: N.Maurin
Date:
Size 11.5 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2201
Klemens von Metternich 1773-1859
Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein known as Klemens von Metternich or Prince Metternich, was a conservative Austrian statesman and diplomat who was at the center of the European balance of power known as the Concert of Europe for three decades as the Austrian Empire’s foreign minister from 1809 and Chancellor from 1821 until the liberal Revolutions of 1848 forced his resignation.
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2204