Giorgio Basta, Count of Huszt was an Italian general, diplomat, and writer of Arbëreshë origin, employed by the Holy Roman Emperor Rudolf II to command Habsburg forces in the Long War of 1591–1606
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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John of Saxony 1801-1873
John was a King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin. He was born in Dresden, the third son of Maximilian, Hereditary Prince of Saxony—younger son of the Elector Frederick Christian of Saxony—by his first wife, Carolina of Bourbon, Princess of Parma.
Size 12 x 17.5 cms
Price £28.00
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Ernst Adalbert von Harrach, Archbishop of Prague 1598-1667
Count Ernst Adalbert von Harrach was an Austrian Catholic Cardinal who was appointed Archbishop of Prague and Prince-Bishop of Trento. His name in Czech is Arnošt Vojtěch hrabě z Harrachu.
Size 18 x 29 cms
Price £28.00
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Charles Emanuel I Duke of Savoy 1562-1630
Charles Emmanuel I, known as the Great, was the Duke of Savoy from 1580 to 1630. He was nicknamed Testa d’feu for his rashness and military aggression.
Date:1561
Size 13 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
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Alexandre Maître, Marquis de Bay 1650-1715
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
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Otto Christoph Freiherr von Sparr 1599-1668
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
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Friedrich Baumann 1763-1841
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
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Alexander I of Russia Emperor of Russia 1777-1825
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
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Carl Theodor Körner 1791-1813
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
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Joanna of Austria, Grand Duchess of Tuscany 1547-1578
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
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