Hans Rudolf Werdmüller was born in Zurich, the son of the wealthy silk merchant Johann Rudolf Werdmüller and his wife Barbara Wydenmann. He entered the service of the Swedish general Gustaf Horn in the Thirty Years’ War in 1633 and participated in the siege of Constance and the Battle of Nördlingen. In the same year, at the family’s request, he married Anna Reinhard, the daughter of a nobleman, who was 14 years his senior.
Size 15.5 x 22.5 cms
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Field marshal of Irish descent in the service of the Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies and last regent of the Habsburg Kingdom of Serbia. Born into an Irish family, he distinguished himself in Sicily by his capture of Messina.
Size 9 x 14 cms
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German Judge Professor of law at Wittenberg
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Charles Emmanuel III was the Duke of Savoy and King of Sardinia from 1730 until his death
Size 9 x 15 cms
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Charles VII was the Prince-elector of Bavaria from 1726 and Holy Roman Emperor from 24 January 1742 until his death in 1745.
Size 9 x 14 cms
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Francis I was Holy Roman Emperor and Grand Duke of Tuscany, though his wife Maria Theresa effectively executed the real powers of those positions. They were the founders of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty. From 1728 until 1737 he was Duke of Lorraine.
Date:1708
Size 9.5 x 14.5 cms
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Frederick III, also known as Frederick the Wise, was Elector of Saxony from 1486 to 1525, who is mostly remembered for the worldly protection of his subject Martin Luther. Frederick was the son of Ernest, Elector of Saxony and his wife Elisabeth, daughter of Albert III, Duke of Bavaria.
Size 8.5 x 15.5 cms
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Dutch statesman and a major political figure in the Dutch Republic in the mid-17th century, when its flourishing sea trade in a period of globalization made the republic a leading European trading and seafaring power – now commonly referred to as the Dutch Golden Age
Size 15.5 x 20 cms
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Duke of Savoy from 1638 to 1675 and under regency of his mother Christine of France until 1648. He was also Marquis of Saluzzo, Count of Aosta, Geneva, Moriana and Nice, as well as claimant king of Cyprus, Jerusalem and Armenia.
Size 11.5 x 16.5 cms
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Archduke of Austria for a few months in 1619 and, jointly with his wife, Isabella Clara Eugenia, sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands between 1598 and 1621. Prior to this, he had been a cardinal, archbishop of Toledo, viceroy of Portugal and Governor General of the Habsburg Netherlands
Size 9.5 x 12.55 cms
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