Category Archives: Austrian

Anna Caterina Gonzaga 1566-1621

Anna Caterina Gonzaga, OSM, religious name Anna Juliana, was an Archduchess of Austria who became a religious Sister of the Servite Order after the death of her husband, the Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria. A cause for her beatification is open but has not advanced since the 17th century
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Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £14.00

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Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor 1503-1564

Ferdinand I was Holy Roman Emperor from 1556, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1526, and Archduke of Austria from 1521 until his death in 1564. Before his accession as emperor, he ruled the Austrian hereditary lands of the House of Habsburg in the name of his elder brother, Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor
Size 19 x 29 cms
Price £28.00

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Maria Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain 1635-1696

Queen of Spain from 1649 until the death of her husband Philip IV in 1665. She was appointed Queen Regent for their three year old son Carlos II and owing to his ill health, remained an influential figure until her own death in 1696.
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Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

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Albert VII 1559-1621

Albert VII was the ruling Archduke of Austria for a few months in 1619 and, jointly with his wife, Isabella Clara Eugenia, sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands between 1598 and 1621. Prior to this, he had been a cardinal, Archbishop of Toledo, viceroy of Portugal and Governor General of the Habsburg Netherlands
Size 17.5 x 26.5 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:832

Leopold II Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary & Bohemia, Archduke of Austria 1741-1790


Holy Roman Emperor from August 1765 and sole ruler of the Habsburg lands from November 1780 until his death. He was the eldest son of Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Emperor Francis I, and the brother of Marie Antoinette, Maria Carolina of Austria and Maria Amalia, Duchess of Parma.
Artist Martin Engelbrecht 1684-1756
Engraver: Christian Wilhelm Engelbrecht
Size 29 x 18 cm

Price £28.00

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Archduke Ernest of Austria 1553-1595

Son of Maximillian II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Maria of Spain; brother of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor. Educated in the court of Spain. Governor of Austria from 1576. Knight of the Golden Fleece. From 1594-1595 served as Governor of Spanish Netherlands.

Artist/Engraver Hoef
Size 18 x 19 cms
Price £18.00

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Paul Taglioni 1808-1884

In 1839 Taglioni performed in the USA with his wife. From 1847 to 1857 he worked as a guest choreographer at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London. In 1851 he became the ballet master of the Hofoper (court Theatre) in Berlin. From 1853 to 1856 was ballet master in Naples and from 1856 until 1883 again in Berlin.

Artist/Engraver Weger
Size 28 x 21 cms
Price £18.00

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Friedrich Sigmund Graf von Schärffenberg, d.1688

A son of Count Johann Wilhelm from his marriage to Maximiliana Countess Harrach . Count Friedrich Sigmund’s name is closely connected with the memory of Vienna’s rescue from the Turkish danger in 1683 . Count Friedrich Sigmund is one of those generals who left the island of Schütt with the corps of Count Leslie and rushed to the rescue of the afflicted Vienna . Later, in 1684, he witnessed the victories of Waitzen and Pesth and then the first unsuccessful siege of Ofen, where he was wounded. Before Neuhäusel he headed under Caprara1685 the storm and was sent with the news of the fall of the square to the imperial court camp

Size 18 x 15 cm
Price £14.00


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