first wife of the actor Alexander Pope (1763-1835). Her first appearance as an actress was made at Drury Lane in October 1768, when she played “Imogen.”
Artist: DeWilde
Date:
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1308
Category Archives: English
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 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1263
Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York 1411-1460
Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York, also named Richard Plantagenet, was a leading English magnate, a great-grandson of King Edward III through his father, and a great-great-great-grandson of the same king through his mother.
Size 9 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1296
Caroline, 1683-1737 Queen of George II
Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach was Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Electress of Hanover from 11 June 1727 until her death in 1737 as the wife of King George II.
Artist: G.Kneller
Date:
Size 14.5 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:884
Sir Christopher Hatton 1540-1591 lord-chancellor, gentleman-commoner, St.Marys Hall Oxford
Subject nationality: English
Subject gender: Male
Artist: W.H.Mote
Date:
Size 10 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1279
George Carew, 1st Earl of Totnes 1555-1629
Known as Sir George Carew between 1586 and 1605 and as The Lord Carew between 1605 and 1626, served under Elizabeth I during the Tudor conquest of Ireland and was appointed President of Munster.
Size 9 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1381
Robert Southey 1774-1843
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: Hall
Date:
Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1351
Charles James Fox 1749-1806
Charles James Fox, styled The Honourable from 1762, was a prominent British Whig statesman whose parliamentary career spanned 38 years of the late 18th and early 19th centuries and who was the arch-rival of William Pitt the Younger.
Artist: Boilly
Date:
Size 8 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1307
Samuel Johnson 1709-1784
Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. He was a devout Anglican. Politically, he was a committed Tory.
Size 10 x 16.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1262
Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon 1535-1595
Henry Hastings, 3rd Earl of Huntingdon, KG, KB was an English Puritan nobleman. Educated alongside the future Edward VI, he was briefly imprisoned by Mary I, and later considered by some as a potential successor to Elizabeth I.
Size 10 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1298