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”.
Size 11.5 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
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Category Archives: English
Hannah More 1745-1833
English religious writer and philanthropist, remembered as a poet and playwright in the circle of Johnson, Reynolds and Garrick, as a writer on moral and religious subjects, and as a practical philanthropist
Artist: E.Bird
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Size 11 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
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Sir William Jones 1746-1794
Anglo-Welsh philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indian languages
Artist: Reynolds
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Size 10 x 10 cms
Price £14.00
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Sir Thomas Bromley 1530-1587
16th-century lawyer, judge and politician who established himself in the mid-Tudor period and rose to prominence during the reign of Elizabeth I. He was successively Solicitor General and Lord Chancellor of England.
Size 10 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
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Oliver Cromwell 1599-1658
English military and political leader. He served as Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland “and of the dominions thereto belonging” from 1653 until his death, acting simultaneously as head of state and head of government of the new republic.
Artist: Pobuda
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Size 11 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
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Lady Margaret Beaufort 1443-1509
Lady Margaret Beaufort was the mother of King Henry VII and paternal grandmother of King Henry VIII of England. She was a key figure in the Wars of the Roses and an influential matriarch of the House of Tudor
Size 9 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
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Thomas Gray 1716-1771
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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Size 8 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
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Thomas Chatterton 1752-1770
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
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”.
Artist: H. Wright Smith
Date:
Size 11 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
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James Foster 1697-1753
Baptist minister known for the Exeter Controversy,
Artist: T.Kitchin
Date:
Size 10 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
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