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. Born in exile in Vienna, Charles spent his military career in the service of the Habsburg monarchy
Engraved by Abraham de Blois. 1679-1720
Painted by Charles Herbel 1656-1703
Size 40 x 30 cm
Price £48.00
Ref:3574
Military governor of Vienna from 1680, the city’s defender during the Battle of Vienna in 1683, Imperial general during the Great Turkish War, and President of the Hofkriegsrat. Generations have idealized Starhemberg as saviour of the Western world and culture. By order of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, a statue was erected in his honour in 1872 at the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna, where the Battle of Vienna is thoroughly documented, with Starhemberg’s épée and armour on display.
Engraved by Thomas von Wiering circa 1684
Size 36 x 29 cm
(Area of lower right hand text missing as shown)
Price £78.00
Ref:3560
Jakob Andreas von Edlersberg Captain of the palace of Schönbrunn. Vienna
Engraved by Carl von Pechwell. 1742–1789. after Ellensheim
Size 38 x 28 cm
Price £38.00
Ref:3572
István Gróf illésházi Illésházy (XI.) lord, politician, military officer. He was a colonel of the noble uprising against Napoleon , then a hereditary lord, and a politician sympathetic to the reform opposition from the beginning of the 1800s . From 1830, he was a director of the Hungarian Society of Scientists . The last scion of the Illésházy family, a large landowner .
Engraved by Adám Sándor Ehrenreich 1784-1852
Size 35 x 27 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3556
Archduke Ferdinand Karl Joseph of Austria-Este (25 April 1781 – 5 November 1850) was the third son of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Este and Princess Maria Beatrice Ricciarda d’Este, last member and heiress of the House of Este. For much of the Napoleonic Wars, he was in command of the Austrian army.
Engraver Frenz Stöber 1795 – 1858
Drawn by Jacob Schakini 1820
Size 22 x 13 cm
Price £18.00
Ref:3547
The House of Abensberg und Traun is the name of an ancient Austrian noble family, originally from the Upper Austrian Traungau. It is considered one of the oldest extant aristocratic families in Central Europe.
Engraver C.Meyssens
Size 15 x 12 cm
Price £18.00
Ref:3546
Franz Seraph von Dietrichstein, of the Austrian and Moravian House of Dietrichstein, was Prince of Dietrichstein, Archbishop of Olomouc, Governor of Moravia and a Cardinal
Artist: Adriaen van Bloemen 1639-1697
Engraver Tobias Sadler 1641 – 1679
Size 27 x 16 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3542
Sigismund von Kollonitsch 1677-1751
Sigismund von Kollonitsch; Kollonitz, Kollonic, Kollonics, Collonicz was titular Bishop of Scutari, Bishop of Waitzen, and was from 1716 to 1722 Prince-Bishop of Vienna, then from 1722 to 1751 the first Prince-Archbishop of Vienna. He was raised in 1727 to the cardinalate by Pope Benedict XIII.
Artist: Jacob van Schuppen 1670-1751
Engraver Gustav Adolph Müller 1694-1767
Size 37 x 24 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3541
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
Eleonora Gonzaga, was born Princess of Mantua as a member of the House of Gonzaga and by marriage Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia.
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2250