General Martín Francisco Javier Mina y Larrea, nicknamed El Mozo or El Estudiante, was a Spanish lawyer and army officer, who later became a Mexican independence figure.
Artist: Julio Alvarez
Date:
Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2199
Carl Joseph Begas 1794-1854
His family (originally “Begasse”) came from Belgium, in the region near Verviers and Liège. He was the third child of Franz Anton Begasse (1764–1842), a judge, and his wife, Susanne née Hoffstadt. In 1802, they moved to Cologne, where he received his first artistic training from the miniaturist, Franz Katz [de]. Later, he studied at the Lyceum in Bonn with Clemens August Philippart (1751–1825). In 1813, he went to Paris, where he became a student of Antoine-Jean Gros. While there, shortly after the Battle of Paris, his talent was noticed by King Friedrich Wilhelm III, who bought one of his works and became his patron. He remained in Paris until 1821. His first works dealt exclusively with Christian themes.
Artist: Weger
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2198
Nicholas I, Count of Salm-Neuburg 1459-1530
Austrian nobleman and imperial military commander. His greatest achievement was his command of the defense of Vienna during the 1529 siege by the Ottoman Turks.
Artist: Stober
Date:
Size 8 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2197
Frederick Louis of Württemberg-Winnental 1690-1734
German general of the eighteenth century.
He was the third son of Frederick Charles of Württemberg-Winnental and Margravine Eleonore Juliane of Brandenburg-Ansbach.
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2196
Charles Frederick II of Württemberg-Oels 1690-1761
Son of the Duke Christian Ulrich I of Württemberg-Oels (1652–1704) from his second marriage to Duchess Sibylle Marie of Saxe-Merseburg (1667–1693), daughter of the Duke Christian I of Saxe-Merseburg. When his father died in 1704, Charles Frederick married on 21 April 1709 in Stuttgart with Sibylle Charlotte (1690–1735), the daughter of Duke Frederick Ferdinand of Württemberg-Weiltingen, a grandson of Julius Frederick, Duke of Württemberg-Weiltingen.
Artist: J.M.B.
Date:
Size 8.5 x 14.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2195
Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor 1741-1790
Joseph II is one of the best-known representatives of Enlightened Absolutism. As a monarch he was indebted to the ideas of Enlightenment rationalism and implemented numerous reforms in the Habsburg Monarchy, some of them far-reaching, in the name of ‘usefulness’.
Artist: Nilson
Date:1765
Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2194
Gottfried von Heister 1609–1679
Imperial commander and general constable
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2193
Georg Wilhelm Baron von dem Bussche-Haddenhausen 1726-1794
General officer of Hanoverian soldiers during the War of the First Coalition who famously led one of the Coalition columns at the Battle of Tourcoing. In 1743 he joined the Hanoverian military service and fought in the War of the Austrian Succession and Seven Years’ War, fighting at Minden and Lutterberg. He led a battalion at Gibraltar in the American Revolutionary War. In the War of the First Coalition he led his soldiers at Valenciennes, Hondschoote, Mouscron, Tourcoing and Tournai. On 11 December 1794 while defending the Bommelerwaard in the Dutch Republic, his hand was taken off by a cannonball and he died shortly afterward.
Size 12 x 20.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2192
Cardinal Joseph Emmanuel de La Trémoille 1659-1720
Son of Louis de La Trémoille, Duke of Noirmoutier, and Renée Julie Aubéry; Bishop of Bayeux, 1716; cardinal, 1706; Archbishop of Cambrai, 1718.
Artist:
Date:
Size 9 x 14.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2190
Annibale Albani 1682-1751
Annibal Albani, born in Urbino in 1682 and died in Rome in 1751, cardinal-bishop of Sabina (1711) and then of Porto and Santa Rufina (1743). He was the nephew of Pope Clement XI and brother of Cardinal Alessandro Albani. This suggests that this vase may have belonged to the cardinal.
Artist: M.J
Date:
Size 9.5 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2189