French military officer in the service of Spain during the War of the Spanish Succession. Born in Salins in 1650, Maître married Cécile de Winssinkercke, who had been born in Louvain on 7 September 1670. Maître was the seigneur of Laer, near Tirlemont.
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1821
Otto Christoph Freiherr von Sparr was a Generalfeldmarschall of Brandenburg-Prussia. Sparr came from a noble family from the Margraviate of Brandenburg. He was born either in Lichterfelde near Eberswalde in 1599 or Prenden near Bernau in 1605. Sparr was an imperial officer during the Thirty Years’ War
Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1754
Austrian actor a member of the Leopoldstadt Theater under Karl von Marinelli since 1781 and played alongside the famous “Kasperle Laroche” and his older brother Anton Baumann the comic roles in the local plays that formed the repertoire of the popular “Punch and Judy show”. As “Schneider Wetz” in the sisters of Prague by Wenzel Müller , he received great applause and general popularity.
Artist: Johann Joseph Neidl 1776-1832
Size 12 x 16.2 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:338
Emperor of Russia between 1801 and 1825. He was the eldest son of Paul I and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg. Alexander was the first king of Congress Poland, reigning from 1815 to 1825, as well as the first Russian Grand Duke of Finland, reigning from 1809 to 1825.
Date:1801
Size 6 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1159
German poet and soldier. After some time in Vienna, where he wrote some light comedies and other works for the Burgtheater, he became a soldier and joined the Lützow Free Corps in the German uprising against Napoleon.
Size 17.5 x 22 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1103
Joanna of Austria was born an Archduchess of Austria as the youngest daughter of Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary. By marriage, she was the Grand Princess of Tuscany and later the Grand Duchess of Tuscany. One of her daughters was Marie de Medici, second wife of King Henry IV of France
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1030
Thomas Howard, 14th Earl of Arundel KG, was a prominent English courtier during the reigns of King James I and King Charles I, but he made his name as a Grand Tourist and art collector rather than as a politician.
Size 13.5 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:968
Austrian military commander, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands from 1647 to 1656, and a patron of the arts
Size 11.5 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:415
Anton Victor, Viceroy of Lombardy-Venetia was an Archduke of Austria and a Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights. He was also briefly the last Archbishop and Elector of Cologne and Prince-Bishop of Münster before those territories were secularised in 1803.
Size 14 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1726
Charles V, Duke of Lorraine and Bar succeeded his uncle Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine as titular Duke of Lorraine and Bar in 1675; both duchies were occupied by France from 1634 to 1661 and 1670 to 1697.
Size 8.8 x 13.8 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:376