English composer, keyboard player, and concert tenor. He began his career as a composer writing theatre music but later devoted himself to working as an organist and composer for the Church of England
Artist/Engraver J.Chapman
Size 18 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
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Johann Helfried Jörger Freiherr von Tollet was born on 13 December 1594, in Vienna, Austria, his father, Johann Jörger zu Tollet, was 36 and his mother, Barbara Jörger zu Tollet, was 31. He married Elisabeth Polyxenia Freiin von Althann in 1622. They were the parents of at least 1 son. He died after 1654, in Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany.
Artist/Engraver Andreas Kohl (1624-1656)
Size 20 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
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Charles, Margrave of Burgau, also known as Charles of Austria, (22 November 1560 at Křivoklát Castle in Bohemia – 30 October 1618 in Überlingen), was the son of Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria and his first morganatic marriage to Philippine Welser. He was the brother of Andrew of Austria.
Artist/Engraver Dominic Custos
Size 15 x 11 cms
Price £18.00
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Belgian author. He is considered the pioneer of Dutch-language literature in Flanders, writing at a time when Belgium was dominated by the French language among the upper classes, in literature and government. Conscience fought as a Belgian revolutionary in 1830 and was a notable writer in the Romanticist style popular in the early 19th century. He is best known for his romantic nationalist novel, The Lion of Flanders (1838), inspired by the victory of a Flemish peasant militia over French knights at the 1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs during the Franco-Flemish War.
Artist/Engraver
Size 28 x 21 cms
Price £16.00
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Philipp Karl von Eltz-Kempenich was born at Burg Eltz on 26 October 1665. In 1686, he enrolled in the Collegium Germanicum in Rome and received a substantial theological education. He later became a canon of Mainz Cathedral and later also of Trier Cathedral.
Artist/Engraver
Size 19 x 11 cms
Price £18.00
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Melchior Pyrnesius, Bishop of Nicopolis, Bulgaria and Suffragan Bishop of Olomouc, Moravia.
Artist/Engraver Egidius Sadeler II c.1570-1629
Size 18 x 13 cms
Price £28.00
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Berger married Maria Sophia Jacobi (* 1665 Dresden; † 1711), the daughter of Dr. jur. Adam Christoph Jacobi and Maria Gertrud Börner (1645–1711). The couple had eight children, four sons and a daughter survived him. The surviving sons were Christof Heinrich von Berger, Johann Samuel von Berger (born August 16, 1691 in Wittenberg † September 17, 1757 in Celle, enrolled at the University of Wittenberg on October 14, 1703, received a master’s degree in philosophy, licentiate on October 18, 1709 and doctor of medicine in September 1713, doctor in Celle, married for the second time in 1726 to Margarethe Louise von Ramdohr (1705–1790), granddaughter of Andreas Ramdohr), Johann August von Berger and Friedrich Ludwig von Berger. The daughter married the theologian Andreas Charitius.
Artist/Engraver
Size 20 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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Ignaz Kassian Bonaventura von Enzenberg (born July 14, 1709 in Brixen; † September 18, 1772 in Untermais near Meran), senior clerk and court chamber councilor.
Artist/Engraver Franz Carl Reissig
Size 16 x 9.5 cms
Price £28.00
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Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the wife of Grand Duke Ferdinando II.
She gave her husband four children, two of which would survive infancy the future Cosimo III and Francesco Maria de’ Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro. She was the Duchess of Rovere and Montefeltro in her own right and these went to her youngest son when she died. She was later the guardian of her three grandchildren. Her marriage bought a lot of art treasures to the House of Medici which are today at the Palazzo Pitti Uffizi Gallery in Florence. She did not get on with her daughter in law Marguerite Louise d’Orléans.
Artist/Engraver Pieter de Jode
Size 29 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3597
Moderata Fonte, directly translating to Modest Well, is a pseudonym of Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi (or Zorzi), also known as Modesto Pozzo (or Modesta, feminization of Modesto),(1555–1592) a Venetian writer and poet.[5] Besides the posthumously-published dialogues, Giustizia delle donne and Il merito delle donne (gathered in The Worth of Women, 1600), for which she is best known, she wrote a romance and religious poetry. Details of her life are known from the biography by Giovanni Niccolò Doglioni (1548-1629), her uncle, included as a preface to the dialogue.
Artist/Engraver
Size 32 x 21 cms
Price £35.00
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