Maria Ann Campion was a popular Irish actress and the second wife of Alexander Pope the actor. She was born in Waterford, Ireland and died in London on 18 June 1803, and was buried in Westminster Abbey.
Artist: Pope
Date:1798
Size 9 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1370
Cornish chemist and inventor, who is best remembered today for isolating, using electricity, a series of elements for the first time: potassium and sodium in 1807 and calcium, strontium, barium, magnesium and boron the following year
Artist: Toller
Date:1834
Size 13 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1334
English poet of the Romantic school, one of the Lake Poets along with William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and England’s Poet Laureate for 30 years from 1813 until his death in 1843.
Artist: Lawrence
Date:
Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1282
Subject nationality: English
Subject gender: Male
Artist:
Date:
Size 11 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1540
English Catholic Jesuit priest and martyr. While conducting an underground ministry in officially Anglican England, Campion was arrested by priest hunters. Convicted of high treason, he was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn.
Size 16 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1396
William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, PC, SL was a British barrister, politician and judge noted for his reform of English law. Born to Scottish nobility, he was educated in Perth, Scotland, before moving to London at the age of 13 to take up a place at Westminster School.
Artist: W.Reid
Date:
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1404
English physician and philanthropist, founder of the Royal Humane Society. As well as his work to spread the practice of resuscitation, he was concerned to relieve poverty in east London.
Artist: Bertonnier
Date:
Size 12 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1333
English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress. In addition to The Pilgrim’s Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons. Bunyan came from the village of Elstow, near Bedford
Size 13 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1400
William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the English countryside. In many ways, he was one of the forerunners of Romantic poetry.
Artist: Hall
Date:
Size 16 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1397
Edward Jenner, FRS FRCPE was an English physician who was a contributor of the smallpox vaccine. The practice was popularized by Jenner and was hence used ubiquitously until now to prevent several diseases.
Artist: Fontaine
Date:
Size 13 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1332