Maria Carolina of Austria was Queen of Naples and Sicily as the wife of King Ferdinand IV & III. As de facto ruler of her husband’s kingdoms, Maria Carolina oversaw the promulgation of many reforms,
Subject nationality: Austrian
Subject gender: Female
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Size 16 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2440
Johann Georg was an illegitimate son of August the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, and Ursula Katharina of Altenbockum, by marriage Princess Lubomirska. At that time, the Lubomirski family was ranked among the most influential families of Poland. He received from his father the name Johann Georg and the characteristic features of thick eyebrows. A few days after his birth, his mother was created Princess of Teschen. Johann Georg grew up in his mother’s houses in Dresden and in Breslau (present-day Wroclaw).
Size 19 x 31 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2442
He was born at Karlsburg Castle, in Durlach (now part of Karlsruhe) as the son of Friedrich V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach and Barbara of Württemberg. He studied in Strasbourg and Paris where he particularly enjoyed the science of war. Later he participated in the defense of German territories against the Ottoman invasion of 1663. Frederick later also participated in the Franco-Dutch War.
Artist: Meyssens
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Size 15 x 24 cms
Price £28.00
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Françoise Marie de Bourbon, légitimée de France was the youngest illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. At the age of 14, she was wed to her first cousin Philippe d’Orléans, future Regent of France during the minority of Louis XV
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
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René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. A native of France, he spent about 20 years of his life in the Dutch Republic after serving for a while in the Dutch States Army of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange and the Stadtholder of the United Provinces.
Date:1835
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
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Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp-Eutin was a cadet of the reigning ducal House of Holstein-Gottorp who became prince of Eutin, prince-bishop of Lübeck and regent of the Duchy of Holstein-Gottorp.
Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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French writer, poet and politician who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic and the continuation of the Tricolore as the flag of France.
Artist: Ed.Schuler
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Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2447
Jean-Baptiste Racine, was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, and an important literary figure in the Western tradition.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Sanlerre
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Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £22.00
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Commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters and historian of Genevan origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era
Artist: F.Rehberg
Date:1817
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £22.00
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French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who founded Romanticism in French literature
Artist: Girodet-Trioson
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Size 11 x 13 cms
Price £24.00
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