Christina, a member of the House of Vasa, was Queen of Sweden from 1632 until her abdication in 1654. Her conversion to Catholicism and refusal to marry led her to relinquish her throne and move to Rome.
Size 12 x 7 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3748/515
Category Archives: Swedish
Ernst Gideon von Laudon 1717-1790
Ernst Gideon von Laudon, since 1759 Freiherr von Laudon (originally Laudohn or Loudon; was a Baltic German-born Austrian military officer and one of the most successful opponents of the Prussian king Frederick the Great.
Artist/Engraver Joh Martin 1778
Size 23 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3664
Christina, Queen of Sweden 1626-1689
Kristina Augusta, later adopted the name Christina Alexandra, was Queen regnant of Sweden from 1633 to 1654, using the titles of Queen of Swedes, Goths, and Vandals, Grand Princess of Finland, and Duchess of Ingria, Estonia, Livonia and Karelia .
Subject gender: Female
Artist: after Pieter Soutman
Size 17.5 x 11.5 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:835
Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp 1636-1715
Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp was Queen of Sweden from 1654 until 1660 as the wife of King Charles X Gustav. She served as regent during the minority of her son, King Charles XI, from 1660 until 1672, and during the minority of her grandson, King Charles XII, in 1697.
Size 11 x 16.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2402
Johan Axelsson Oxenstierna 1611-1657
Born 1611 in Stockholm, Sweden, died 1657 in Wismar, Germany, was a Swedish Count and diplomat; together with Johan Adler Salvius he was one of the Swedish delegates sent to Osnabrück and Münster, Germany in order to negotiate the Peace of Westphalia in 1648; son of Axel Gustafsson Oxenstierna af Södermöre.
Size 8 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2439
Hans Reinhold von Fersen 1683-1736
Hans Reinhold von Fersenwas a Swedish count, politician and soldier of Baltic-German origin. He served as lieutenant general from 1720 and as president of the Svea Court of Appeal from 1731.
He was the son of count Reinhold Johan von Fersen and Anna Sophia von Ungern-Sternberg, likewise of Baltic German nobility. In 1715 he himself married countess Eleonora Margareta Wachtmeister, daughter of the royal counsellor Axel Wachtmeister..
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2529
Johann Heinrich von Dünewald 1617-1691
von Dünewald’s parents were Lorenz and Katharina von Dünewald. He was first in Swedish, later in imperial service. He distinguished himself in the Battle of St. Gotthard in 1664. He became a major general and was given command of a cuirassier regiment in 1670, which he was to lead for over twenty years. He later helped to defeat the French at Sasbach under Raimondo Montecuccoli and was therefore elevated to the rank of count by Emperor Leopold I in 1675 and became a general of the cavalry. When Vienna was besieged by the Turks, he defended Krems and defeated a strong Turkish military detachment there. He then helped end the siege of Vienna and led the pursuit of the Turks after the Battle of Kahlenberg. At Párkány on October 9, 1683 and at the siege of Gran on October 24, 1683 he fought under Duke Charles V of Lorraine. Dünewald then led the Swabian auxiliary troops to the first in 1684.
Size 6 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2814
Kurt Christoph von Königsmarck 1634-1673
Conrad or Kurt Christoph von Königsmarck was a Dutch-Swedish military leader. He was the son of Hans Christoff von Königsmarck and Agathe von Leesten and the brother of Otto Wilhelm von Königsmarck and Beata Elisabet von Königsmarck
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Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1591
Arvid Axel Mardefelt (around 1655 – 18 May 1708)s
Freiherr Arvid Axel Mardefelt was a Swedish Infantry General and an acquaintance of Charles XII of Sweden during the Great Northern War.
Subject gender: Male
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Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1500
Lennart Torstensson 1603-1651
Count of Ortala, Baron of Virestad , was a Swedish Field Marshal and military engineer.
Size 6 x 10 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2878