Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (Duchess of Cambridge) was the wife of Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, the tenth-born child, and seventh son, of George III of the United Kingdom and Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. The longest-lived daughter-in-law of George III, she was the maternal grandmother of Mary of Teck, wife of George V.
Artist/Engraver
Size 29 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
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Karl Frederick of Anhalt-Bernburg was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Bernburg. He was born in Bernburg, the eldest son of Victor Amadeus, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg, by his wife Elizabeth of Palatinate-Zweibrücken, daughter of Frederick, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken.
Artist/Engraver Martin Bernigeroth
Size 32 x 21 cms
Price £35.00
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Sir Peter Paul Rubens was a Flemish artist and diplomat. He is considered the most influential artist of the Flemish Baroque tradition. Rubens’s highly charged compositions reference erudite aspects of classical and Christian history.
Artist/Engraver Edward Mitchell after Antonio Van Dyck
Size 24 x 17 cms
Price £16.00
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Willem van Heythuysen was a Dutch cloth merchant and hofje founder in Haarlem and Weert. He is best known today for his portraits by Frans Hals, though he is remembered locally for his Hofje van Willem Heythuijsen bordering Haarlemmerhout park, which has been in operation for centuries
Artist/Engraver Frans Hals 1582-1666
Size 27 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
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Ferdinand Maria was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 1651 to 1679. The Elector modernized the army and introduced Bavaria’s first government code. Besides encouraging agriculture and industry, he also improved building and restoration works on churches and monasteries since the damage caused during the Thirty Years’ War.
Artist/Engraver Jacob Andreas Friedrich
Size 27 x 16 cms
Price £35.00
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John Frederick I, called the Magnanimous , Duke of Saxony-Wittenberg from 1532, was the principal defender of Luther, a fact that brought him into conflict with Charles V. In 1546 these differences resulted in an armed conflict that culminated at Mühlberg l 1547 when the Imperial army defeated the Schmalkaldic League and captured its leaders, John Frederick and Philip of Hesse. John Frederick was condemned to death, a punishment that was commuted to life imprisonment in exchange for the surrender of the state capital Wittenberg by his wife, Sibyl of Cleves.
Artist/Engraver
Size 18 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
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Lynden was born in the noble family Aspremont-Lynden as the son of Count Ferdinand of Aspremont-Lynden (1611–1665) and his wife, Landgravine Elisabeth zu Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (1621–1662). He grew up at the Aspremont-Lynden Castle, in the county of Rekem (Reckheim), a small County in present-day Belgium, belonging to the Holy Roman Empire. Lynden became an officer in the service of the Holy Roman Empire and its Habsburg emperor in Vienna.
Artist/Engraver
Size 20 x 15 cms
Price £18.00
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Concino Concini, 1st Marquis d’Ancre was an Italian politician, best known for being a minister of Louis XIII of France, as the favourite of Louis’s mother, Marie de Medici, Queen of France. In 1617, he was killed at the behest of the King.
Artist/Engraver B. Moncornet.
Size 16 x 12 cms
Price 18.00
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Archduchess Marie Valerie Mathilde Amalie of Austria 1868 -1924 was the youngest child of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. She was usually called Valerie.
On 31 July 1890, she married Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria 1866-1939 the marriage caused a rift between her and her siblings as their marriages had to be dynastic, while Marie Valerie’s was, as Empress Elisabeth allowed, for love and desire.
Artist/Engraver
Size 13 x 12 cms
Price £18.00
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Johann Weikhard Freiherr von Valvasor or Johann Weichard Freiherr von Valvasor(Slovene: Janez Vajkard Valvasor, pronounced [ˈʋáːlʋazɔɾ]) or simply Valvasor was a natural historian and polymath from Carniola, present-day Slovenia, and a fellow of the Royal Society in London. He is known as a pioneer in the study of karst topography. Together with his other writings, until the late 19th century his best-known work—the 1689 Glory of the Duchy of Carniola, published in 15 books in four volumes—was the main source for older Slovenian history, making him one of the precursors of modern Slovenian historiography.
Artist/Engraver Matthias Greischer1659-1712
Size 29 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
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