Came from a noble family from the Margraviate of Brandenburg. He was born either in Lichterfelde near Eberswalde in 1599 or Prenden near Bernau in 1605. Sparr was an imperial officer during the Thirty Years’ War
Size 16 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:859
Josef Kronenberg moved to Kunín from Hungary together with his doctor father. After the sudden death of his wife, Josef was taken in by Countess Walburga and entrusted to the care of her teacher and later guardian Anton Schneider. At fourteen, Josef let himself be recruited into the army, but against the wishes of Countess Walburga. He therefore preferred to return to Kunín as a lieutenant of the hunting battalion, and since then his career has risen steeply. He eventually became a general of the gendarmerie and a holder of the baronial title.
Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:731
Archduke Charles Louis John Joseph Laurentius of Austria, Duke of Teschen was an Austrian field-marshal, the third son of Emperor Leopold II and his wife, Maria Luisa of Spain. He was also the younger brother of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor.
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:870
Born at Schloß Ehrenburg in Coburg, he was the youngest son of Duke Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld and Princess Anna Sophie of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt. He was the great-uncle of King Leopold I of Belgium (1790–1865); and the great-great-uncle of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom (1819–1901).
Artist: Muller
Date:
Size 10.5 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1548
French explorer and naval officer who explored the south and western Pacific, Australia, New Zealand and Antarctica. As a botanist and cartographer he gave his name to several seaweeds, plants and shrubs, and places such as d’Urville Island in New Zealand.
Artist: Alboth
Date:
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1190
Rafael del Riego y Flórez was a Spanish general and liberal politician, who played a key role in the establishment of the Liberal Triennium.
Size 10 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:527
Hans Rudolf Werdmüller was born in Zurich as the son of the wealthy silk merchant Johann Rudolf Werdmüller, but lost his father when he was only three years old. He received his schooling at the academy in Geneva, where his brother Hans Georg Werdmüller also studied, who later planned Zurich’s third city fortifications as a fortress engineer. Werdmüller later continued his education in Lyon, where he studied fortress construction.
Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2009
Willisen was born in Stassfurt as the third son of the mayor of Stassfurt, Karl Wilhelm Hermann von Willisen (1751–1807) and his wife Friederike von Trotha (1768–1826).
Artist: Dittmarsch. Stuttgart
Date:
Size 19 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2671
General officer of Hanoverian soldiers during the War of the First Coalition who famously led one of the Coalition columns at the Battle of Tourcoing. In 1743 he joined the Hanoverian military service and fought in the War of the Austrian Succession and Seven Years’ War, fighting at Minden and Lutterberg. He led a battalion at Gibraltar in the American Revolutionary War. In the War of the First Coalition he led his soldiers at Valenciennes, Hondschoote, Mouscron, Tourcoing and Tournai. On 11 December 1794 while defending the Bommelerwaard in the Dutch Republic, his hand was taken off by a cannonball and he died shortly afterward.
Size 12 x 20.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2192
Carl Rudolf (29 May 1667, in Neuenstadt am Kocher – 17 November 1742, in Neuenstadt am Kocher) was the last Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt, army commander in Danish service and Field Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire.
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Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1503