Maria Anna Adamberger, born Jaquet, was an Austrian actress. She was known for her roles in various comedies, while her sister Katharina Adamberger preferred tragic roles. Heinrich Joseph von Collin and other poets have composed pieces about her.
Size 7.3 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:342
Johann Nepomuk Cosmas Michael Denis, also: Sined the Bard, was an Austrian Catholic priest and Jesuit, who is best known as a poet, bibliographer, and lepidopterist.
Size 12.8 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:506
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar succeeded his uncle Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine as titular Duke of Lorraine and Bar in 1675; both duchies were occupied by France from 1634 to 1661 and 1670 to 1697.
Size 7 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:567
Prince of Saxe-Lauenburg and initially imperial and later Electoral Saxon field marshal. In the Thirty Years’ War he fought and acted alternately on the side of both warring parties, building up a special relationship of trust with Wallenstein.
Size 12 x 14.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:874
Sigmund Adam was a son of Johann Bernhard von Traun of the Maissau line, from his marriage to Maria Freiin von Auersperg. He initially served Archduke Matthias at court (as cupbearer), became a Lower Austrian Estates Councilor in 1623, and then Emperor Ferdinand II’s Chamberlain, Privy Councilor, Lord High Steward, and President of the Imperial Treasury. Later, he became Land Marshal and General of the Land in Lower Austria, dying in the latter rank at the age of 65. Around 1630, Sigmund Adam was forced to sell the Traun estate and castle to Werner t’Serklaes von Tilly, the nephew of Field Marshal Johann t’Serclaes von Tilly. In 1635, he acquired Bockfließ Castle from Count Franz Christoph Khevenhüller.
Size 16 x 27.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1211
Johann Jakob Khisl von Kaltenbrunn, also Hanns Jakob Khiesel von Kaltenbrunn; Jacob Khisel Graf zu Gottschee; Jacob Khißl Graf zu Cotsche; Hanns Jakob Khisl Graf von und zu Gottschee, Baron zu Kaltenbrunn and Gannowitz (* 1565 or 1564 in Kaltenbrunn Castle on the Laibach (today Fužine Castle), Moste district of Ljubljana municipality; † 1638 or 1637 in Vienna) was an Austrian statesman under Ferdinand II. a.[1] He was a member of the noble House of Khisl.
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2068
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
Seyfridus Christoph Preiner.” Bust half-right in the oval of the governor of Lower Austria, in a draped frame
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2551
Son of Count Peter von Lacy and his second wife, Margareta Filippina von Funcken-Lösern (1685–1759), widowed Countess Frölich. His father was a Russian Field Marshal who belonged to the Irish branch of the de Lacy family and had followed James II into exile. Franz Moritz was born in St Petersburg, and was educated in Germany for a military career, and entered the Austrian service. He served in Italy, Bohemia, Silesia and the Netherlands during the War of the Austrian Succession, was twice wounded, and by the end of the war was a lieutenant-colonel. At the age of twenty-five he became full colonel and chief of an infantry regiment.
Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:238
Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and an elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 1651 to 1679
Artist: A.Melaer
Date:
Size 8 x 16 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2339