Girolamo Carafa (or Caraffa), Marquis of Montenegro (Abruzzo, 1564 – Genoa, 1633) was a general in Spanish and Imperial service from Italian descent. Girolamo was born in the noble Neapolitan Carafa family. His parents were Rainaldo Carafa and Portia Carracciola, daughter of the Duke of Sicignano.
Size 11 x 16.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:863
Italian-born professional soldier, military theorist, and diplomat, who served the Habsburg monarchy. Experiencing the Thirty Years’ War from scratch as a simple footsoldier, he rose through the ranks into a regiment holder and became an important cavalry commander in the late stages
Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:862
Younger brother of Emperor Ferdinand III, was an Austrian soldier, administrator and patron of the arts. He held a number of military commands, with limited success, and served as Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, before returning to Vienna in 1656.
Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:861
Came from a noble family from the Margraviate of Brandenburg. He was born either in Lichterfelde near Eberswalde in 1599 or Prenden near Bernau in 1605. Sparr was an imperial officer during the Thirty Years’ War
Size 16 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:859
Maximilian I, occasionally called the Great, a member of the House of Wittelsbach, ruled as Duke of Bavaria from 1597. His reign was marked by the Thirty Years’ War during which he obtained the title of a Prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire at the 1623 Diet of Regensburg
Size 17 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:857
Elizabeth Brownrigg was an 18th-century English murderer. Her victim, Mary Clifford, was one of her domestic servants, who died from cumulative injuries and associated infected wounds. As a result of witness testimony and medical evidence at her trial, Brownrigg was hanged at Tyburn on 14 September 1767.
Date:1767
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:856
Hungarian Jesuit priest, poet, writer and linguist.
Artist: Klime
Date:1790
Size 10 x 15.5 cms
Price £28.00
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Wife of Honoré d’Albert Marshal of France first Duke of Chaulnes,
Artist: Balthasar Moncornet 1600-1668
Date:
Size 11.5 x 15.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:853
Italian Renaissance humanist, Civil Servant and writer. Born in Pesaro and educated in Padua, Collenuccio first served the Sforza rulers of Pesaro, but was dismissed when Giovanni Sforza succeeded in 1483.
Size 15 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:852
King of Prussia from 1786 until his death in 1797. He was in personal union the Prince-elector of Brandenburg and sovereign prince of the Canton of Neuchâtel. As a defensive reaction to the French Revolution, Frederick William II ended the German Dualism between Prussia and Austria.
Artist: A.Graff
Date:1792
Size 8.5 x 14.5 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:845