Category Archives: German

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Otto Wilhelm von Königsmarck 1639-1688

Otto Wilhelm Graf (count) von Königsmarck, born 1639 in Minden, Germany, died 1688 in Modon, Greece, was a German-Swedish count, military officer, field marshal since 1667, Governor General for Swedish Pomerania (1679-1687), leader of the Venetian conquest of the Morea in the beginning of the Morea War; son of Hans Christoff Königsmarck; he died of the plague on an admiral’s ship at the Greece shore.
Artist: Cornelius Nicolas Schurtz (active 1670-1689)
Date:
Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00

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810

Leopoldus Josephus. S.R.J Comes a’ Schljck

Leopold Anton Joseph Schlik zu Bassano und Weißkirchen, also Schlick or Šlik (* 10 July 1663; † 10 April 1723) was an imperial general war commissioner, ambassador, field marshal and Bohemian court chancellor during the War of the Spanish Succession.
Artist:
Date:
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00

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403

Ernest Louis, Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt 1667-1739

Ernest Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt was Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1678 to 1739. His parents were Landgrave Louis VI of Hesse-Darmstadt and Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. Ernest Louis’s desire to emulate the French court under Louis XIV ran his country into debt.
Date:1667
Size 10 x 14.5 cms
Price £28.00

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2837

Princess Caroline Augusta of Bavaria 1792-1873

Princess Caroline Augusta of Bavaria was Empress of Austria by marriage to Francis I of Austria. She was the penultimate child and third daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt.
Artist: J.Schott. Vienna
Date:
Size 6.5 x 9 cms
Price £14.00

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2606

Margareta Fugger Von Nondendorf 1592–1652

The House of Fugger is a German family that was historically a prominent group of European bankers, members of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mercantile patriciate of Augsburg, international mercantile bankers, and venture capitalists. Alongside the Welser family, the Fugger family controlled much of the European economy in the sixteenth century and accumulated enormous wealth. The Fuggers held a near monopoly on the European copper market.
Artist: Lucus Kilain 1579-1637
Date:
Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00

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1440

Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein 1583-1634

Also von Waldstein, was a Bohemian military leader and statesman who fought on the Catholic side during the Thirty Years’ War. His successful martial career made him one of the richest and most influential men in the Holy Roman Empire by the time of his death.
Artist: Van Dyck
Date:
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00

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