Artist: Sir Joshua Reynolds
Size 16 x 9 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3088
Category Archives: English
Richard Grenville-Temple, 2nd Earl Temple
Earl Temple 1711-1779 MP Buckingham, first lord of the Admiralty, lord privy seal
Artist: Sir Joshua Reynolds
Size 16 x 9 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3089
Sir Henry Vane 1613-1662 statesman
Artist: Sir Peter Lely
Size 17 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Stk.3090
King Charles II (1630-1685), Reigned 1660-85
Son of Charles I he reacted bravely to the outbreak of civil war in 1642; first saw service at Edgehill aged twelve and when advised to retreat cried ‘I fear them not’, flourished his pistol and had to be restrained from charging. He campaigned until sent abroad for safety in 1646. He made a daring invasion of England in 1651, which ended in disaster at the Battle of Worcester. Sheltered by Royalists for six weeks, he was finally able to escape to France. He was restored to the throne, in 1660.
Artist: Sir Peter Lely
Size 17 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Nicholas Rowe 1674-1718
Poet Laureate and dramatist
Artist: John Michael Rysbrack
Size 17 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3082
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham 1536-1624 Lord High Admiral
Charles Howard was Elizabeth I’s cousin and enjoyed her friendship and confidence. Appointed Lord High Admiral in 1585, he held chief command against the Spanish Armada. He was created Earl of Nottingham in 1601 following the success of the Cadiz expedition, which he jointly led with Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. He subsequently acted as a commissioner at Essex’s trial in 1601. He retained royal favour under James I and led an embassy to Spain in 1604 to ratify the peace treaty that ended the Anglo-Spanish war.
Artist: Jacobus Houbraken
Size 17 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3081
Charles Churchill 1731-1764
Author of The Rosciad, 1761, a satire on contemporary actors (only David Garrick escaped his vitriol). Churchill’s other targets included the Prime Minister, Lord Bute, the author, Tobias Smollett and the artist, William Hogarth. He died young on his way to visit his friend, John Wilkes, who was then living in exile in Paris.
Artist: J.S.C. Schaak
Size 15 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3080
Edward Littleton Kt, first Baron Littleton 1589-1645
Lord keeper of the Great Seal
Artist: Sir Anthony Van Dyck
Size 15 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3078
Sir Samuel Garth 1661-1719 physician and poet
Physician and poet. His attempts to establish a poor person’s dispensary were defeated when apothecaries raised the price of drugs; in retaliation he wrote his satiric poem, The Dispensary.
Artist: Sir Godfrey Kneller,
Size 15 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3077
Henry Boyle, Baron Carleton d.1725
Chancellor of Exchequer 1701, Lord treasurer of Ireland 1704-1710
Artist: Sir Godfrey Kneller
Size 16 x 9 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3072