Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet FRSE FSA Scot was a Scottish historical novelist, poet, playwright and historian. Many of his works remain classics of both English-language literature and of Scottish literature
Artist/Engraver Henry Raeburn
Size 28 x 22 cm
Price £12.00
Ref:3513
Was a member of the Royal Prussian secret war council. He was designated commander of the Order of St. John in Lietzen.
Engraved by Johann Friedrich Bause 1738-1814
Size 24 x 19 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3512
A son of Count Johann Wilhelm from his marriage to Maximiliana Countess Harrach . Count Friedrich Sigmund’s name is closely connected with the memory of Vienna’s rescue from the Turkish danger in 1683 . Count Friedrich Sigmund is one of those generals who left the island of Schütt with the corps of Count Leslie and rushed to the rescue of the afflicted Vienna . Later, in 1684, he witnessed the victories of Waitzen and Pesth and then the first unsuccessful siege of Ofen, where he was wounded. Before Neuhäusel he headed under Caprara1685 the storm and was sent with the news of the fall of the square to the imperial court camp
Size 18 x 15 cm
Price £14.00
Osman II, commonly known in Turkey as Genç Osman, was the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1618 until his regicide on 20 May 1622.
Size 25 x 17 cm
Price £14.00
King of France from 1515 until his death in 1547. He was the son of Charles, Count of Angoulême, and Louise of Savoy. He succeeded his cousin and father-in-law Louis XII, who died without a son.
Size 9 x 8 cm
Price £14.00
Ref:3515
Socrates was a classical Greek philosopher credited as one of the founders of Western philosophy, and as being the first moral philosopher of the Western ethical tradition of thought
Size 19 x 14 cm two prints
Price £14.00
Ref:3516
Frederick III of Holstein-Gottorp was a Duke of Holstein-Gottorp. He was the elder son of Duke Johann Adolf of Holstein-Gottorp and Princess Augusta of Denmark. His mother was a daughter of King Frederick II of Denmark. He had ambitious plans concerning the development of sea trade
size 40 x 30 cm
Price £95.00
Ref:3511
Austrian Field Marshal, and Ban of Croatia
Engraver Johan Christian Leopold
Large engraving on paper size 50 x 35 cm
Price £95.00
Ref:3509
Austrian Field Marshal, and Ban of Croatia
Engraver Schwab after Hochhauser
On paper size 37 x 24 cm
Price £65.00
Ref:3510
Sporting portrait of Charles and Mary Suthers
with a favourite hunter and dogs
Signed and dated 1854
Large oil painting on canvas 43 x 54.1/2 inches (110 x 138 cm)
The Suthers were Oldham Aristocracy in the early 19th Century, and Charles and his brother Spencer built the Oxford Mill which is still standing. Mary, in the picture married William Wild who ran the Oldham Evening News. Charles married into the Lees family and one of his sons., Leigh Suthers (Leghe) 1855-1924 was one of the Newlyn School.
Robert Crozier was born in Blackburn in 1815, the son of George Crozier, a saddler and one of the leaders of a group of working-class amateur botanists. When Crozier was ten his family moved briefly to Bolton, before settling in Warrington in April 1826. From the age of twelve until he was twenty, Crozier was apprenticed to a coach painter called William Maskey. However, during this time Crozier also studied under John Kitchingham, a local teacher of drawing, grammar, miniature painting and botany, until Kitchingham was killed in a railway accident.
In 1836 Crozier moved to Manchester, where he remained for the rest of his life. He became a pupil of Henry Travis, before going on to study at the Manchester School of Design under John Zephania Bell in 1838. In the same year, Crozier was to marry Ellen Morgan of Liverpool; they had two daughters and a son. On leaving the School of Design, in 1845 Crozier went to study under William Bradley, and it was after this that he gained his reputation as a portrait painter. In 1851, at Bradley’s suggestion, he opened a studio in St Anne’s Street. Crozier first exhibited at the Royal Manchester Institution in 1841, and at the Royal Academy in 1854, but it was the success of the ‘Exhibition of Works of Local Artists’ at Peel Park, Salford, in 1857, that encouraged Crozier and other local artists to set up the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts in 1859. Shortly after its foundation Crozier was appointed Literary Secretary of the Academy, a position which he held until he was elected Treasurer in 1868, and from 1878 until a month before his death he was President of the Academy. His wife Ellen died in 1880. Crozier died at his home in Sydney Street, off Oxford Road in Manchester, on 7th February 1891.
The Robert Crozier collection was sold at auction in November 1995 by order of an anonymous Cheshire collector. The previous custodial history of the collection is not known. The collection was divided into seventeen lots, all but three of which (This painting is one of the 3) were purchased by the John Rylands University Library of Manchester.
Literature: Thomas Letherbrow, Robert Crozier: a memoir (Manchester: J.E. Cornish, 1891). Page 44
Price £18.000.00