Courtier to King Charles II and a benefactor of the University of Cambridge. He is remembered for creating the first fund for the purchase of books at the Cambridge University Library. He was an investor in, and Assistant of, the Royal African Company, an English mercantile company involved in the slave trade.
Engraving by W. N. Gardiner (after Kneller, 1682)
Size 24 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3751/515
Bishop of Rochester
Artist: Sir Godfrey Kneller
Size 15 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref: 3107
Physician and poet. His attempts to establish a poor person’s dispensary were defeated when apothecaries raised the price of drugs; in retaliation he wrote his satiric poem, The Dispensary.
Artist: Sir Godfrey Kneller,
Size 15 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3077
Chancellor of Exchequer 1701, Lord treasurer of Ireland 1704-1710
Artist: Sir Godfrey Kneller
Size 16 x 9 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3072
German actress, was famous not only in Germany. She was married to Alexander von Oven, later divorced, buried as Charlotte von Oven at Alter Südfriedhof München.
Artist: Kneller
Date:
Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2216
English essayist, poet, playwright and politician. He was the eldest son of The Reverend Lancelot Addison. His name is usually remembered alongside that of his long-standing friend Richard Steele, with whom he founded The Spectator magazine.
Artist: Bolt after Kneller
Date:
Size 7 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1270