Prominent English courtier during the reigns of King James I and King Charles I, but he made his name as a Grand Tourist and art collector rather than as a politician.
Size 4.5 x 7.5 cms
Price £14.00
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Category Archives: English
Rev James Webb, 1707-1782 theologian
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Size 8 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
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William Shakespeare 1564-1616
English poet, playwright, and actor, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world’s greatest dramatist. He is often called England’s national poet and the “Bard of Avon”.
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Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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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
Artist: Posselwhite
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Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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David Garrick 1717-1779
English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of theatrical practice throughout the 18th century, and was a pupil and friend of Dr Samuel Johnson
Artist: Reynolds
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Size 10 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
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John Landcaster 1778-1838 educationalist
English Quaker and public education innovator. He developed, and propagated on the grounds both of economy and efficacy, a monitorial system of primary education. In the first decades of the 19th century his ideas found application in new schools established in growing industrial centres.
Size 11 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
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Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont 1710-1763
Charles Wyndham, 2nd Earl of Egremont, PC, of Orchard Wyndham in Somerset, Petworth House in Sussex, and of Egremont House in Mayfair, London, was a British statesman who served as Secretary of State for the Southern Department from 1761-63
Size 14 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
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John Lydgate 1370-1451
John Lydgate of Bury was a monk and poet, born in Lidgate, near Haverhill, Suffolk, England. Lydgate’s poetic output is prodigious, amounting, at a conservative count, to about 145,000 lines.:
Size 17 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
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Sir Robert Peel 1788-1850
Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, FRS was a British Conservative statesman who served twice as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and twice as Home Secretary. He is regarded as the father of modern British policing, owing to his founding of the Metropolitan Police Service.
Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland 1564-1632
English nobleman. He was a grandee and one of the wealthiest peers of the court of Elizabeth I. Under James I, Northumberland was a long-term prisoner in the Tower of London, due to the suspicion that he was complicit in the Gunpowder Plot
Artist: VanDyke
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Size 10 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
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