Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist and blackmailer, who wielded influence on contemporary art and politics.
Size 4.5 x 7 cms
Price £14.00
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Hercules Strozza 1473-1508
Italian poet
Size 4 x 7 cms
Price £14.00
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Jacques Auguste de Thou 1553-1617
French historian and collector, called ‘president’ after his rank in the Paris Parliament
Size 4.5 x 7.5 cms
Price £14.00
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Caroline Augusta of Bavaria 1792-1873
Empress consort of Austria by marriage to Francis I of Austria. She was a daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt. She married Crown Prince William of Württemberg, whom she divorced, and Emperor Francis I of Austria
Artist: Portmann
Date:
Size 6.5 x 10 cms
Price £14.00
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Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel KG 1586-1646
Prominent English courtier during the reigns of King James I and King Charles I, but he made his name as a Grand Tourist and art collector rather than as a politician.
Size 4.5 x 7.5 cms
Price £14.00
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John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich 1718-1792
British statesman who succeeded his grandfather Edward Montagu, 3rd Earl of Sandwich as the Earl of Sandwich in 1729, at the age of ten. Former First Lord of the Admiralty
Artist: Schmidt
Date:1787
Size 8 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
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George I, King of England 1660-1727
George I was king of Great Britain and Ireland from 1 August 1714 and ruler of the Duchy and Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg in the Holy Roman Empire from 23 January 1698 until his death in 1727. He was the first British monarch of the House of Hanover.
Size 7.5 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
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Charles II King of Hungary 1345-1386
Charles the Short or Charles of Durazzo was King of Naples and titular King of Jerusalem from 1382 to 1386 as Charles III, and King of Hungary from 1385 to 1386 as Charles II. In 1381, Charles created the chivalric Order of the Ship. In 1383, he succeeded to the Principality of Achaea on the death of James of Baux.
Size 15 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
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Albert II, Duke of Austria 1298-1358
Albert II, known as the Wise (Sapiens) or the Lame, a member of the House of Habsburg, was duke of Austria and Styria from 1330, as well as duke of Carinthia and margrave of Carniola from 1335 until his death
Artist: Matthias van Sommern
Date:
Size 18 x 29 cms
Price £28.00
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Leopold I. Holy Roman Emperor 1658-1705
Leopold I was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, Croatia, and Bohemia. The second son of Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor, by his first wife, Maria Anna of Spain, Leopold became heir apparent in 1654 after the death of his elder brother Ferdinand IV
Artist: Matthias van Sommern
Date:1659
Size 18 x 29.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:977