British divine who served as Bishop of Lincoln and Bishop of London, jurist, and antiquary
Artist: Vanderbank
Date:
Size 14 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
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John Bunyan 1628-1688
English writer and Puritan preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory The Pilgrim’s Progress. In addition to The Pilgrim’s Progress, Bunyan wrote nearly sixty titles, many of them expanded sermons. Bunyan came from the village of Elstow, near Bedford.
Size 12 x 14 cms
Price £28.00
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Alexander Pope 1688-1744
Regarded as one of the greatest English poets, and the foremost poet of the early eighteenth century. He is best known for his satirical and discursive poetry—including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism—as well as for his translation of Homer.
Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
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Samuel Johnson 1709-1784
Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. He was a devout Anglican. Politically, he was a committed Tory.
Size 10 x 16.5 cms
Price £28.00
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James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck 1740-1795
James Boswell, 9th Laird of Auchinleck, was a Scottish biographer, diarist, and lawyer, born in Edinburgh. He is best known for his biography of his friend and older contemporary, the English writer Samuel Johnson, which is commonly said to be the greatest biography written in the English language
Artist: Reynolds
Date:
Size 9 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1261
Sir Edward Coke 1552 – 1634
English barrister, judge, and politician who is considered to be the greatest jurist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras
Size 8 x 9.5 cms
Price £14.00
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John Wesley 1703-1791
English cleric, theologian and evangelist who was a leader of a revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies he founded became the dominant form of the independent Methodist movement that continues to this day
Artist: William Bromley
Date:
Size 10 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
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William Robertson 1721-1793
Scottish historian, minister in the Church of Scotland, and Principal of the University of Edinburgh. “The thirty years during which [he] presided over the University perhaps represent the highest point in its history.”
Artist: Joshua Reynolds
Date:1837
Size 13 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1257
Alexander Pope 1688-1744
regarded as one of the greatest English poets, and the foremost poet of the early eighteenth century. He is best known for his satirical and discursive poetry—including The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Criticism—as well as for his translation of Homer.
Size 14 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1256
Cosimo III de’ Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany 1642-1723
The penultimate Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany. He reigned from 1670 to 1723, and was the elder son of Grand Duke Ferdinando II. Cosimo’s 53-year-long reign, the longest in Tuscan history, was marked by a series of ultra-reactionary laws which regulated prostitution and banned May celebrations.
Artist: P.Aubry
Date:
Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1254