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
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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
Franz Moritz Graf von Lacy was an Austrian military leader of Baltic German and Irish origins. He was the son of Count Peter von Lacy, and was a famous Austrian field marshal. Lacy served during the reign of Maria Theresa, and was a close friend to Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, becoming one of the latter’s advisers
Artist: C.Kollonitsch
Date:1770
Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1530
Jean-Louis de Rabutin , Count of Bussy, born in 1642 and died November 15, 1716 in Vienna , French military officer.
Subject gender: Male
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Size 9 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:693
German general. He was the son of Frederick Charles, Duke of Württemberg-Winnental and Margravine Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
Size 7.5 x 12.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:800
Austrian Generalissimo and former Field Marshal. He first entered military service in 1788 and fought against the Turks. During the French Revolutionary War, he fought on the allied side against France and in that period rose through the ranks of the Imperial Army.
Date:1822
Size 15 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:560
Margrave Ludwig Wilhelm von Baden-Baden, called Türkenlouis was regent in the Margraviate of Baden-Baden, builder of the castle in Rastatt, lieutenant general in the imperial army and a successful general in the wars against the Turks. The Ottomans called him the “Red King” because of his red uniform jacket, which could be seen from afar. He was first district general field marshal of the troops in the Swabian Reich District and Reich Field Marshal of the Heiligen Römischen Reiches Deutscher Nation.
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Size 9.5 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:177
Don Diego Philip de Gusman Spanish politician and army commander.
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Size 13.5 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2292