Hungarian poet, book collector, writer, organizer of literary life, Gedeon Ráday collected coins and medals, graphics, paintings for the family collection as well. The family residence at Pécel was widely admired by the contemporaries.
Artist: Thomas Klims
Date:1788
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1838
Maria Amalia (Maria Amalia Christina Franziska Xaveria Flora Walburga; was Queen of Spain from 10 August 1759 until her death in 1760 as the wife of King Charles III. Previously, she had been Queen of Naples and Sicily since marrying Charles on 19 June 1738. She was born a princess of Poland and Saxony, daughter of King Augustus III of Poland and Princess Maria Josepha of Austria. Maria Amalia and Charles had thirteen children, of whom seven survived into adulthood. A popular consort, Maria Amalia oversaw the construction of the Caserta Palace outside Naples as well as various other projects, and she is known for her influence upon the affairs of state.
Artist: Martin Friedrich Bernigeroth 1737-1801
Date:
Size 22 x 32 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2467
Fernando Álvarez de Toledo y Pimentel, 3rd Duke of Alba (29 October 1507 – 11 December 1582), known as the Grand Duke of Alba (Spanish: Gran Duque de Alba, Portuguese: Grão Duque de Alba) in Spain and Portugal and as the Iron Duke (Dutch: IJzeren Hertog) or shortly ‘Alva’ in the Netherlands and Belgium, was a Spanish nobleman, general and statesman.
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1574
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
Ref:2500
Clara Isabella Eugenia, was sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands, and the Free County of Burgundy, from 1598 to 1621, ruling jointly with her husband Archduke Albert VII of Austria. After Albert’s death, those regions were returned to the Spanish Habsburgs, and she continued to rule as governess of the Spanish Netherlands until her death.
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Size 13 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:644
Subject nationality: Spanish
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Velasquez
Date:1638
Size 13 x 21 cms
Price: SOLD
Ref:1570
Isabella II (10 October 1830 – 9 April 1904) was Queen of Spain from 1833 until her deposition in 1868. She is the only queen reigning in the history of the United States Spain. Isabella was the eldest daughter of King Ferdinand VII and Queen Maria Christina.
Size 24 x 31 cms
Price £35.00
Ref:2503
Eleonora Gonzaga, was born a princess of Mantua as a member of the House of Gonzaga, and by marriage to Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, was Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia.
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Date:
Size 17.5 x 12.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1610
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra was a Spanish writer who is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the Spanish language and one of the world’s pre-eminent novelists. His novel Don Quixote has been translated into over 140 languages and dialects; it is, after the Bible, the most-translated book in the world
Size 12.5 x 20.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:425
Eleonora Gonzaga, was born Princess of Mantua as a member of the House of Gonzaga and by marriage Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia
Size 16 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2564