Category Archives: Swedish

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 by marriage to Charles X Gustav of Sweden, and the mother of Charles XI. She served as regent during the minority of her son from 1660 until 1672, and during the minority of her grandson Charles XII in 1697
Artist: Jacob Sandrart
Date:
Size 22 x 31 cms
Price £55.00

Ref:2468

Prince Gustav Vasa, Count Itterburg 1799-1877

Prince Gustav Vasa, Count Itterburg, born Crown Prince of Sweden and later called Gustaf Gustafsson von Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Vasa, was the son of King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden and Queen Frederica. His Austrian princely title was actually spelled Wasa.
Size 7 x 10.5 cms
Price £14.00

Ref:1822

Anders Chydenius 1729-1803

Finnish priest and a member of the Swedish Riksdag, and is known as the leading classical liberal of Nordic history. Born in Sotkamo, Finland and having studied under Pehr Kalm at the Royal Academy of Åbo, Chydenius became a priest and Enlightenment philosopher
Size 8 x 16 cms
Price £14.00

Ref:3007