Category Archives: English

Henry Pelham 1695-1754 Prime Minister

Whig statesman, who served as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1743 and Robert Walpole’s successor as Prime Minister from 1743 to 1754
Artist: William Hoare

Size 16 x 10 cms

Price £10.00

Ref: 3096

William Russell, Lord Russell 1639-1683

Known as ‘The Patriot’, he was an opponent of James II and supported the Exclusion Bill which attempted to remove him from the order of succession; executed for treason.
rtist: Sir Godfrey Kneller

Size 17 x 10 cms

Price £10.00

Ref:3097

Richard Mead 1673-1754, Physician

Having trained in Leiden in the 1690s, Richard Mead became the leading surgeon in early eighteenth-century Britain. He earned great sums attending many of the era’s leading figures including Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Robert Walpole. He was also physician to George I, George II and Queen Caroline whom he encouraged to inoculate the royal children against smallpox.
Artist: Allan Ramsay

Size 16 x 10 cms

Price £10.00

Thomas Herring 1693-1757 Archbishop of Canterbury

Artist: Thomas Hudson

Size 16 x 10 cms

Price £10.00

Ref:3100

Samuel Chandler 1693-1766

Dissenting minister and theologian
Artist: after Mason Chamberlin

Size 15 x 9 cms

Price £10.00

Ref:3101

Richard Steele 1672-1729 author and politician

Dramatist, essayist and Whig politician; noted for his periodical essays in The Tatler 1709-11, The Spectator 1711-12 and various political papers. A prominent member of the Kit-cat Club.

Artist: Sir Godfrey Kneller

Size 16 x 9 cms

Price £10.00

Ref:3084

Edmund Waller 1606-1687 poet

Poet and wit of wavering political allegiance; in the Civil War, first supported Parliament and then led a plot (‘Waller Plot’) to seize London for Charles I; was sentenced to death, but the sentence was connuted to a fine of £10,000 and exile, 1644; was pardoned by Cromwell’s influence; praised Cromwell in verse, but later rejoiced in his death; published Upon His Majesty’s Happy Return at the Restoration and was a favourite at court; ‘Sacharissa’ was the mistress of his youthful poems; his most famous lyric is ‘Go, lovely rose.’

Artist: Sir Peter Lely

Size 14 x 9 cms

Price £10.00

Ref:3083