Frances Teresa Stewart, Duchess of Richmond and Lennox was a prominent member of the Court of the Restoration and famous for refusing to become a mistress of Charles II of England. For her great beauty she was known as La Belle Stuart and served as the model for an idealised, female Britannia.
Painted by Jacob Huysmans and engraved by C. Rivers
Size 26 x 17 cms
Price £14..00
Ref:3681
Sir Jonathan Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet, PC was a British lawyer and Tory politician.
Engraved by H.Robinson
Drawn by Phillips
Published 1846
Size 13 x 9 inches with margins
Price £16.00
Ref:3680
Chancellor of the Exchequer in Lord Goderich’s government (1827-1828), Master of the Mint in the government of the Duke of Wellington (1828-1830), President of the Board of Trade (1830); Secretary at War under Sir Robert Peel’s first governement (1834-1835), President of the Board of Control in Lord Derby’s first adminstration (1852).
Engraved by S.Freeman
Published 1846
Size 13 x 9 inches with margins
Price £16.00
Ref:3679
William Draper Best, 1st Baron Wynford, PC, was a British politician and judge. He served as Chief Justice of the Common Pleas from 1824 to 1829
Engraved by F.Halpin
Drawn by Thomas Lawrence
Published 1846
Size 13 x 9 inches with margins
Price £16.00
Ref:3678
James Ochoncar, the 17th Lord Forbes, regarded by the family as perhaps the most “relevant” ancestor for the building of the present Castle Forbes and planting many of the trees that still stand on Forbes Estate, was an officer in the Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards for 26 years, rising to the rank of General. He served as second in command of the British Mediterranean forces in Sicily in 1808 before commanding the Cork and Eastern Districts in Ireland. It was during his time in Ireland that the present Castle Forbes was built near Alford on the site of the old family home of Putachie.
Engraved by J.Brown
Drawn by B.Faulkner
Published 1846
Size 13 x 9 inches with margins
Price £16.00
Ref:3677
Sir Robert Harry Inglis, 2nd Bt 1786-1855
After studying at Oxford, Inglis travelled extensively, and cultivated literary, historical, and scientific interests, becoming a fellow of the Royal Society and a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. He was involved with numerous philanthropic, religious and educational societies, and over his lifetime published many devotional works and parliamentary speeches. He was elected as an MP in 1824 and the defence of Protestantism and the Anglican Church dominated his parliamentary life. He was opposed to measures that he thought weakened the Church and strenuously opposed the Catholic Relief Bill of 1829. He also strongly identified himself with Irish Protestant interests and with the cause of the Church of Ireland.
Engraved by Jenkins
Drawn by Richmond
Published 1846
Size 13 x 9 inches with margins
Price £16.00
Ref:3676
Sir William Webb Follett 1796-1845
Attorney-General
He was called to the Bar in 1824, and joined the western circuit in the following year. When Sir Robert Peel formed his administration in 1834, Follett was appointed solicitor general, and at the same time he was made a king’s counsel and received a knighthood. The following year Follett was elected as MP for Exeter. He continued his private practice and was reputed to be the greatest advocate of his generation. In 1844 he was appointed as Attorney General.
Engraved by Ryall
Drawn by Chalon
Published 1846
Size 13 x 9 inches with margins
Price £16.00
Ref:3675
The second son of a wealthy Borders family, the Kers of Cessford, Mark Ker was appointed the abbot of Newbattle Abbey. He was able to take advantage of the Reformation, quickly embracing the new Protestant religion and taking ownership of the abbey and its sizeable estates when the Roman Catholic Church was outlawed. Ker’s son, also named Mark, was created the Earl of Lothian, and the line has subsequently become the Marquesses of Lothian.
Total size approximatley 12 x 9.1/2 inches
Engraved by R.Roberts
Price £22.00
Ref:3674
Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards , also known as Amelia B. Edwards, was an English novelist, journalist, traveller and Egyptologist. Her literary successes included the ghost story “The Phantom Coach” (1864), the novels Barbara’s History (1864) and Lord Brackenbury (1880), and the travelogue of Egypt A Thousand Miles up the Nile (1877). She also edited a poetry anthology published in 1878.
In 1882, she co-founded the Egypt Exploration Fund. She gained the nickname “Godmother of Egyptology” for her contribution.
Artist/Engraver A.Weger
Size 29 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3633
Sophia Dorothea of Hanover was Queen in Prussia and Electress of Brandenburg during the reign of her husband, King Frederick William I, from 1713 to 1740. She was the mother of King Frederick II of Prussia.
At the time of Sophia’s birth, her father was merely the son of a German prince, Ernest Augustus, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg. It was not until 1701 that the Act of Settlement placed him, through his mother, in line to inherit the throne of Great Britain. Sophia was twenty-seven years of age, and had already become the Queen in Prussia and a mother of many children, by the time her father became King George I of Great Britain in 1714.
Artist/Engraver Johann Christian Leopold the Younger 1729-1779
Size 34 x 24 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3631