English poet, letter-writer, classical scholar, and professor at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He is widely known for his Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published in 1751. Gray was an extremely self-critical writer who published only 13 poems in his lifetime, despite being very popular
Artist: Cook
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English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Although fatherless and raised in poverty, he was an exceptionally studious child, publishing mature work by the age of 11.
Size 9 x 12 cms
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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”.
Artist: H. Wright Smith
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Size 11 x 18 cms
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Baptist minister known for the Exeter Controversy,
Artist: T.Kitchin
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John Law was a Scottish economist who believed that money was only a means of exchange that did not constitute wealth in itself and that national wealth depended on trade. He was appointed Controller General of Finances of France under the Duke of Orleans, who served as regent for the youthful king, Louis XV.
Size 10 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
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English soldier, famed for his successful military career in the Low Countries
Size 10 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
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Subject nationality: English
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Sysang
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Size 11 x 18 cms
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Sir John Norris or Norreys, of Rycote, Oxfordshire, and of Yattendon and Notley in Berkshire, was an English soldier, the son of Henry Norris, 1st Baron Norreys, a lifelong friend of Queen Elizabeth.
Artist: Zucchero
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Size 14 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
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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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Subject gender: Male
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Size 8 x 12 cms
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