Philippe-Emmanuel de Lorraine, Duke of Mercœur and of Penthièvre was a French soldier, a prince of the Holy Roman Empire and a prominent member of the Catholic League, who fought for Breton political independence from the House of Bourbon.
Date:1558
Size 16 x 21.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:199
Philippe, Duke of Orléans was the younger son of Louis XIII of France and his wife, Anne of Austria. His older brother was the famous “Sun King”, Louis XIV. Styled Duke of Anjou from birth, Philippe became Duke of Orléans upon the death of his uncle Gaston in 1660
Artist: Peter Aubry
Date:
Size 11 x 15.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1792
Gaspard III de Coligny, duc de Châtillon, was a French Huguenot, who served under Louis XIII, and was appointed Marshal of France in 1622. He was described as “a mediocre general, but absolutely loyal”
Artist: Buchhorn
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1544
Henri Eugène Philippe Louis d’Orléans, Duke of Aumale was a leader of the Orleanists, a political faction in 19th-century France associated with constitutional monarchy. He was born in Paris, the fifth son of King Louis-Philippe I of the French and Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily and used the title Duke of Aumale
Artist: Winterhalter
Date:
Size 7.5 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1706
Jean-Louis Guez de Balzac was a French author in Baroque Précieuses style, best known for his epistolary essays, which were widely circulated and read in his day. He was one of the founding members of the Académie française.
Artist: After Mellan
Date:1654
Size 10 x 14.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:630
Carl Linnaeus, also known after his ennoblement as Carl von Linné, was a Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician who formalised binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the “father of modern taxonomy”.
Artist: Bertonnier
Date:1833
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1454
Subject nationality: French
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Balthazar Moncornet 1630-1670
Date:1657
Size 11 x 15.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2670
French poet and tragedian. He is sometimes known as Crébillon père or Crébillon le Tragique to distinguish him from his son Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon.
Artist: De la Tour
Date:
Size 19 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2470
Victor Vincelas Jacquemont was a French botanist and geologist known for his travels in India. Born in Paris on August 8, 1801, Victor Jacquemont was the youngest of four sons of Venceslas Jacquemont and Rose Laisné. He studied medicine and later took an interest in botany. His early travels took him around Europe.e
Artist: Miumie
Date:
Size 13 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2319
Henri François d’Aguesseau was Chancellor of France three times between 1717 and 1750 and pronounced by Voltaire to be “the most learned magistrate France ever possessed”
Artist: R.Tourniere
Date:1720
Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2104