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
Imperial commander and general constable
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2193
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
Son of Louis de La Trémoille, Duke of Noirmoutier, and Renée Julie Aubéry; Bishop of Bayeux, 1716; cardinal, 1706; Archbishop of Cambrai, 1718.
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Size 9 x 14.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2190
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
Roman Catholic cardinal and antiquarian
Artist: M.B.
Date:1737
Size 8 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2187
Nicholas I was Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland. He was the third son of Paul I and younger brother of his predecessor, Alexander I. Nicholas’s reign began with the failed Decembrist revolt.
Artist: Haas
Date:1830
Size 11 x 17.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2186
Bonchamp-lès-Laval 1761-1844 Also known as Le Breton; pupil of Vincent and David; professeur de dessin et de perspective at the Institution des sourds-muets. The only recorded painting is a portrait (at Pontoise) which received the premier prix Montyon in 1834. A drawing dedicated by him to “Isabey père” in 1844 testifies to his friendship with another David pupil.
Artist: Bouvier
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2184
English Quaker and public education innovator. He developed, and propagated on the grounds both of economy and efficacy, a monitorial system of primary education. In the first decades of the 19th century his ideas found application in new schools established in growing industrial centres.
Size 11 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
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The House of Guise, a branch of the House of Lorraine He is the youngest son of Charles I of Lorraine, Duke of Guise, Count of Eu, and Henriette-Catherine de Joyeuse, Lady of Joinville. Received as a Knight of Malta at a very young age. In 1644, he served at the siege of Gravelines. He died at the siege of Cambrai on September 6, 1653, and was buried in the Saint Laurent collegiate church in Joinville3.
Artist: P.Aubry
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Size 11.5 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2182