Maximilian II Emanuel (born July 11, 1662, Munich—died Feb. 26, 1726, Munich) was the elector of Bavaria from 1679 and an able soldier whose quest for dynastic aggrandizement led him into a series of wars, first as an ally of the House of Habsburg, later against it, an enmity that nearly cost him his holdings.
Artist: De Larmessin
Date:1662
Size 17 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1644
Rupert of the Palatinate sometimes known as Robert of the Palatinate, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, was Elector Palatine from 1398 (as Rupert III) and King of Germany from 1400 until his death.
Artist: R. Gaillard c.1719-1790
Date:
Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2716
The Brühl family (de Brüel, von Brühl) is an old German noble family from Saxony-Thuringia, with their ancestral seat in Gangloffsömmern in Thuringia. Branches of the family still exist today.
Heinrich von Brühl, who indirectly controlled Saxony and the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth during the 18th century, was a powerful statesman in the Holy Roman Empire.
One of the most important branches of the Brühl family uses the spelling Brüel or Bryll and mainly resides in Denmark, Sweden, Poland, and United States.
Size 9 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:604
He was born at Karlsburg Castle, in Durlach (now part of Karlsruhe) as the son of Friedrich V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach and Barbara of Württemberg. He studied in Strasbourg and Paris where he particularly enjoyed the science of war. Later he participated in the defense of German territories against the Ottoman invasion of 1663. Frederick later also participated in the Franco-Dutch War.
Artist: Meyssens
Date:
Size 15 x 24 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2443
His branch of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg is named after Wiesenburg Castle, near Zwickau.
Size 6 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2929
Württemberg Duke from 1698 who governed the Kingdom of Serbia as regent from 1720 until 1733, when he assumed the position of Duke of Württemberg, which he held until his death.
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:161
German philologist, philosopher and linguist.
Size 9 x 14.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:174
German writer of prose satires and publicist of the Enlightenment. He was born at Wachau near Leipzig, and he died at Dresden. In 1741 he made his debut as satirist in Schwabe’s Belustigungen des Verstandes und Witzes, and was subsequently a contributor to the Bremer Beitrage.
Size 12 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:487
Prince of Saxe-Lauenburg and initially imperial and later Electoral Saxon field marshal. In the Thirty Years’ War he fought and acted alternately on the side of both warring parties, building up a special relationship of trust with Wallenstein.
Size 12 x 14.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:874
Princess Alexandrine of Baden was the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha as the wife of Ernest II. She was the eldest child of Leopold, Grand Duke of Baden, and his wife Princess Sophie of Sweden.
Artist: Carl Meyer
Date:
Size 6.5 x 10 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2428