He was the son of Henry Stanhope, Lord Stanhope and his wife, Katherine Wotton. He inherited the title of Earl of Chesterfield on the death of his grandfather in 1656. He was educated by Poliander, Professor of Divinity at Leyden (1640) and at the Prince of Orange’s College at Breda. In 1669 he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Civil Laws by the University of Oxford.
Artist/Engraver E.Bocquet after S.Harding 1808
Size 19 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3651
English poet and Tory politician of the late Stuart period who served as Lord Privy Seal and Lord President of the Council. He was also known by his original title, Lord Mulgrave.
Artist/Engraver: Finden after Thurston 1822
Size 25 x 16 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3650
Duke de Persigny (born 1808, Saint-Germain-Lespinasse, France) French statesman who helped pave the way for Louis-Napoléon’s rise to power as the emperor Napoleon III.Born of a petty noble family, he served in the hussars from 1825 to 1831, when he was dismissed for participation in a political rebellion. Thereafter he devoted himself to the restoration of the empire and to the cause of Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte.
Artist/Engraver
Size 26 x 18 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3644
The Papafava (sometimes also Pappafava, more precisely Papafava dei Carraresi) were an aristocratic family of Padua, a junior branch of the Carraresi.
Artist/Engraver: Sorgato 1848
Size28 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3642
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
Ref:3605
Franz Georg von Schönborn was a German nobleman who served as Archbishop and Elector of Trier from 1729 until his death in 1756. He was also Prince-Bishop of Worms and Prince-Provost of Ellwangen from 1732.
Artist/Engraver
Size 19 x 11 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3603
Military governor of Vienna from 1680, the city’s defender during the Battle of Vienna in 1683, Imperial general during the Great Turkish War, and President of the Hofkriegsrat. Generations have idealized Starhemberg as saviour of the Western world and culture. By order of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, a statue was erected in his honour in 1872 at the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna, where the Battle of Vienna is thoroughly documented, with Starhemberg’s épée and armour on display.
Engraved by Thomas von Wiering circa 1684
Size 36 x 29 cm
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Price £78.00
Ref:3560
Member of the House of Hesse, was Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel from 1627 to 1637. Having come to rule in unfavorable circumstances and in the midst of the Thirty Years’ War, he continued to suffer losses of territory and wealth.
Engraved by Daniel Meisner (1585 – 162
Size 14 x 9 cm
Price £38.00
Ref:3562
Engraved by Teodoro Viero 1774
Size 28 x 22 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3571
Baron Ignác Eötvös de Vásárosnamény, the Younger (1786–1851), Hungarian politician, jurist and bachelor of arts, comes of the county of Sáros.
Engraved by Adám Sándor Ehrenreich 1784-1852
Size 35 x 27 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3559