Subject nationality: French
Subject gender: Male
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Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1693
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Kazimierz Brodzinski 1791-1835 Polish Poet and literary critic
Born in Królówka near Bochnia. He came from the low nobility. He was a student at schools in Tarnów, where he also graduated from the grammar school. He served in the army of the Duchy of Warsaw. He took part in the campaign of 1812, during which he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant. During the Battle of the Nations at Leipzig, he was wounded and taken prisoner by the Prussians. Having returned from captivity in 1814, he settled in Warsaw, Having received his doctor’s degree in philosophy, he was appointed Professor at Warsaw University.
Artist: Henryk Hirszel 1809-1877
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Size 13 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1691
Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy. Wife of Louis XVIII
Marie Joséphine of Savoy (Italian: Maria Giuseppina Luisa; 2 September 1753 – 13 November 1810) was a princess of France and Countess of Provence by marriage to the future King Louis XVIII of France. She was regarded by Bourbon royalist Legitimists as the titular ‘Queen of France’ when her husband assumed the title of king in 1795 upon the death of his nephew, the titular King Louis XVII of France, until her death. She was never practically queen, as she died before her husband actually became king in 1814.
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Size 9.5 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1685
Bouille
Subject nationality: French
Subject gender: Male
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Size 10 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1683
Jules Mascaron 1634–1703
Jules Mascaron was a popular French preacher. He was born in Marseille as the son of a barrister at Aix-en-Provence. He entered the Oratory of Jesus early and became reputed as a preacher. Paris confirmed the judgment of the provinces; in 1666 he was asked to preach before the court and became a favourite of Louis XIV, who said that his eloquence was one of the few things that never grew old.
Artist: Delpech
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Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1681
Pierre de Ronsard 1524-1585
French poet known in his generation as a “prince of poets”. His works include Les Amours de Cassandre, Les Hymnes, Les Discours, La Franciade, and Sonnets pour Hélène. Ronsard was born at Manoir de la Possonnière in the village of Couture-sur-Loir, Vendômois.
Artist: Delpech
Size 10 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1679
Prince Henri d’Orleans, Duke of Aumale 1822-1897
Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d’Orléans, Duke of Aumale was a leader of the Orleanists, a political faction in 19th-century France associated with constitutional monarchy. He was born in Paris, the fifth son of King Louis-Philippe I of the French and Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily and used the title Duke of Aumale
Artist: Winterhalter
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Size 7.5 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1706
Joseph I, Holy Roman Emperor 1678-1711
Joseph I was Holy Roman Emperor and ruler of the Austrian Habsburg monarchy from 1705 until his death in 1711. He was the eldest son of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor from his third wife, Eleonor Magdalene of Neuburg.
Size 17.5 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:127
Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor
Subject nationality: Hapsburg-Lorraine
Subject gender: Male
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Date:1790
Size 6.5 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:588
Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor 1708-1765
Francis I was Holy Roman Emperor, Archduke of Austria, Duke of Lorraine and Bar, and Grand Duke of Tuscany. He became the ruler of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, Austria, and Tuscany through his marriage to Maria Theresa, daughter of Emperor Charles VI
Size 6 x 10 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:584