Category Archives: Spain

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Carlos, Prince of Asturias 1545-1568

Carlos, Prince of Asturias, also known as Don Carlos (8 July 1545 – 24 July 1568), was the eldest son and heir apparent of King Philip II of Spain. His mother was Maria Manuela of Portugal, daughter of John III of Portugal. Carlos was known to be mentally unstable and was imprisoned by his father in early 1568, dying after half a year of solitary confinement. His imprisonment and death were utilized in Spain’s Black Legend. His life inspired the play Don Carlos by Friedrich Schiller and the opera Don Carlos by Giuseppe Verdi.
Size 18 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

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Carlos II, King of Spain 1661-1700

Charles II was the last of the Habsburg dynasty to rule Spain. Known as ‘the Bewitched’ he suffered from physical and intellectual disabilities cause by generations of inbreeding and was regarded as a weak and ineffectual ruler.
Date:1683
Size 16.5 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

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Cardinal Infante Don Ferdinand of Austria, 1609-1641.

Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand (also known as Don Fernando de Austria, Cardenal-Infante Fernando de España and as Ferdinand von Österreich; May 1609 or 1610[1] – 9 November 1641) was a Spanish and Portuguese prince (Infante of Spain, Infante of Portugal (until 1640)), Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Cardinal of the Holy Catholic Church, Archduke of Austria, Archbishop of Toledo (1619–41), and a general during the Thirty Years’ War, the Eighty Years’ War, and the Franco-Spanish War.
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

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Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand 1609-1641

Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand (also known as Don Fernando de Austria, Cardenal-Infante Fernando de España and as Ferdinand von Österreich; May) was a Spanish and Portuguese prince (Infante of Spain, Infante of Portugal (until 1640)), Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Cardinal of the Holy Catholic Church, Archduke of Austria, Archbishop of Toledo (1619–41), and a general during the Thirty Years’ War, the Eighty Years’ War, and the Franco-Spanish War. He is largely considered to be the best Spanish general of the time with some contemporary sources claiming him to be the last great general of the Spanish Empire. He is as well, one of few generals to be undefeated on the battlefield.
Size 18 x 28.5 cms
Price £28.00

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Francesco III Gonzaga 2nd Duke of Mantua 1533-1550

Francesco III Gonzaga was Duke of Mantua and Marquess of Montferrat from 1540 until his death. He was the eldest son of Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and his wife Margaret Paleologina.
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

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Francisco de Orozco y Ribera 1605-1668

Son of Rodrigo de Orozco, lord of Leveche and Cerniago, who went to Italy with the army of the Count of Fuentes at the beginning of the 17th century, and who received the title of Marquis of Mortara from Philip III. His mother was Victoria de Portia, daughter of the Count of Portia. He married Isabel Manrique de Lara, and they had as a son Juan Antonio de Orozco and Manrique de Lara, who succeeded him.
Artist: Simone Durello
Date:1668
Size 15 x 24 cms
Price £28.00

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Maria Anna of Spain 1606-1646

Maria Anna of Spain was a Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia by marriage to Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor. She acted as regent on several occasions during the absences of her spouse.
Size 10.5 x 14 cms
Price £28.00

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Alfonso II 1157-1196

Alfonso II called the Chaste or the Troubadour, was the King of Aragon and, as Alfons I, the Count of Barcelona from 1164 until his death.:
Size 4 x 7 cms
Price £14.00

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Lope de Vega 1562-1635

Lope Félix de Vega y Carpio KOM was a Spanish playwright, poet, novelist and marine. He was one of the key figures in the Spanish Golden Age of Baroque literature.
Size 11.2 x 18.5 cms
Price £28.00

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Pelagius of Asturias 685-737

Pelagius was a Visigothic nobleman who founded the Kingdom of Asturias, ruling it from 718 until his death. Through his victory at the Battle of Covadonga, he is credited with beginning the Reconquista, the Christian reconquest of the Iberian peninsula from the Moors.
Size 6.5 x 10.5 cms
Price £14.00

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