Subject nationality: English
Subject gender: Male
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Size 11 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1540
Category Archives: English
Saint Edmund Campion, 1540-1581
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 1705-1793
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
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Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1404
William Hawes 1736-1808
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
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Size 12 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1333
John Bunyan 1628-1688
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 1731-1800
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
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Size 16 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1397
Edward Jenner 1749-1823
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
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Size 13 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1332
Sir Christopher Hatton 1540-1591
English politician, Lord Chancellor of England and a favourite of Elizabeth I of England. He was one of those who found Mary, Queen of Scots, guilty of treason.
Artist: W.H.Mote
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Size 10 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1278
Alexander Pope 1688-1744
regarded as one of the greatest English poets, and the foremost poet of the early eighteenth century. He is best known for his satirical and discursive poetry—including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism—as well as for his translation of Homer.
Size 14 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1256
Thomas Villiers, 1st Earl of Clarendon 1709-1786
British politician and diplomat from the Villiers family. Clarendon was the second son of William Villiers, 2nd Earl of Jersey, and his wife Judith Herne, daughter of Frederick Herne.
Artist: Hudson
Date:
Size 13 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1395