Joseph II was Holy Roman Emperor from August 1765 and sole ruler of the Habsburg lands from November 1780 until his death. He was the eldest son of Empress Maria Theresa and her husband, Emperor Francis I, and the brother of Marie Antoinette.
Size 7 x 10 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1173
French general and politician. A prominent leader during the Italian War of 1551–1559 and French Wars of Religion, he was assassinated during the siege of Orleans in 1563
Size 5.5 x 9 cms
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Ref:1171
Leopold II was Holy Roman Emperor, King of Hungary, and Bohemia from 1790 to 1792, and Archduke of Austria and Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1765 to 1790. He was the earliest opponent of capital punishment in modern history.
Date:1790
Size 15 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1168
Elector of Saxony from 1680 to 1691. He belonged to the Albertine line of the House of Wettin.
Artist: Hess
Date:1806
Size 11 x 17.5 cms
Price £28.00
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French lawyer and statesman. He is best known as the first head of state of the Second Republic, after the collapse of the July Monarchy.
Date:1816
Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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Charles XIV John or Carl John, was King of Sweden and King of Norway from 1818 until his death in 1844. Born in Pau in southern France, Bernadotte joined the French Royal Army in 1780.
Size 6 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
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Son of Colonel András Semsey. In 1778 he participated as a royal commissioner in the re-annexation and organization of the so-called three counties of the Banat beyond the Maros; at that time he was appointed as the vice-governor of Torontál County, and participated in the introduction of the lord’s rent. In 1786 he became a judge of the royal board, then a judge of the Seven-person Board. In 1789 he was employed at the royal court chancellery, in 1791 at the imperial-royal chamber and became a councilor there. From 1797 he was the deputy chief of the county of Ugocsa, a knight of the Order of St. Stephen, from 1803 he was the actual chief of the same county, from 1802 February 26, the royal personal chief. In 1807 he became the chief of the county of Abaúj, in 1808 he became the president of the chamber.
Size 10 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
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Theologian, lawyer, university professor, law historian, Jesuit monk
Artist: Kaergling
Date:
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
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Emperor of Russia between 1801 and 1825. He was the eldest son of Paul I and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg. Alexander was the first king of Congress Poland, reigning from 1815 to 1825, as well as the first Russian Grand Duke of Finland, reigning from 1809 to 1825.
Date:1801
Size 6 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
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Austrian field marshal and diplomat who was one of the most successful Allied commanders in the Napoleonic Wars and who contributed significantly to the French emperor’s defeat in 1813–14.
Date:1822
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1157