Ernest Augustus was King of Hanover from 20 June 1837 until his death in 1851. As the fifth son of George III of the United Kingdom and Hanover, he initially seemed unlikely to become a monarch, but none of his elder brothers had a legitimate son.
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:573
Louis XIV, also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. His verified reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest of any sovereign.
Date:1668
Size 15.5 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:575
Palatine of Hungary, appointed during the reign of his father, Emperor Leopold II, and serving into the reign of his elder brother, Emperor Francis II.
Date:1791
Size 16 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:578
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
Subject nationality: Hapsburg-Lorraine
Subject gender: Male
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Date:1790
Size 6.5 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:588
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
Subject nationality: French
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Delpech
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Size 11 x 13 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1677
Jean-François Regnard (7 February 1655 – 4 September 1709), “the most distinguished, after Molière, of the comic poets of the seventeenth century”,[1] was a dramatist, born in Paris, who is equally famous now for the travel diary he kept of a voyage in 1681.
Artist: Delpech
Date:
Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1680
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
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
Date:
Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1681