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Innocenzo Conti, Duca di Guadagnolo 1613-1661

Innocens Duca di Conti Guadagnolo was a son of Lothario Conti, Duke of Poli and Margrave of Piatica and his wife Julia Ursinae de Bomarzo. He was born and studied in Rome. After his father’s death, Conti joined the service in the army of Ferdinand III and as a commander of the division of cuirassiers participated in the Battle of Diedenhoden (Thionville) in the army of Prince Piccolomini. In 1647 he became commander of the infantry regiment and fought in the Battle of Jihlava where he was seriously wounded. Later on Conti participated in the conquests of Krems, Kornneuburg and Opava. That same year, Conti was proposed the commander of Regensburg.

Artist: M.Merian
Size 14 x 9 cm

Price £SOLD

Ref:3529

Archduke Ernest of Austria 1553-1595

Son of Maximillian II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Maria of Spain; brother of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor. Educated in the court of Spain. Governor of Austria from 1576. Knight of the Golden Fleece. From 1594-1595 served as Governor of Spanish Netherlands.

Artist/Engraver Hoef
Size 18 x 19 cms
Price £18.00

Ref:3665

Don Juan of Austria 1547-1578

Spanish admiral and governor, known to Elizabethans as Don John. Born in Regensburg, Germany, to commoner Barbara Blomberg, Don Juan, the natural son of Emperor Charles V, was brought to Brussels, where his mother married. In 1550 Charles had the boy, called Jeromín, taken to Spain by a servant couple, and then, in 1554, transferred to the castle of his chief of household, Don Luis de Quijada, and his wife, Doña Magdalena de Ulloa, at Villagarcía de Campos.

Artist/Engraver
Size 20 x 16 cms
Price £18.00

Ref:3656

Guy-Crescent Fagon 1638-1718

French physician and botanist. He came from nobility and his uncle, Guy de La Brosse, had founded the Royal Gardens. Fagon was director of the gardens too. His substitute professors were Gilles-François Boulduc, Antoine de Saint-Yon and Étienne François Geoffroy.

Artist/Engraver Forestier
Size 28 x 21 cms
Price £18.00

Ref:3654

Paul Jean Pierre Sauzet 1800-1876

French lawyer and politician from Lyon who was Minister of Justice and Religious Affairs for a few months in 1836 and was President of the Chamber of Deputies from 1839 until the February Revolution of 1848.

Artist/Engraver Giroux, Émile
Size 26 x 16 cms
Price £14.00

Ref:3653

Duncan Forbes of Culloden 1685-1748

Scottish lawyer and Whig politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1721 to 1737. As Lord President and senior Scottish legal officer, he played a major role in helping the government suppress the 1745 Jacobite Rising.

Artist/Engraver S.Freeman
Size 21 x 13 cms
Price £14.00

Ref:3652

Paul Taglioni 1808-1884

In 1839 Taglioni performed in the USA with his wife. From 1847 to 1857 he worked as a guest choreographer at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London. In 1851 he became the ballet master of the Hofoper (court Theatre) in Berlin. From 1853 to 1856 was ballet master in Naples and from 1856 until 1883 again in Berlin.

Artist/Engraver Weger
Size 28 x 21 cms
Price £18.00

Ref:3641

James III of Scotland 1451-1488

King of Scots from 1460 until his death at the Battle of Sauchieburn in 1488. He inherited the throne as a child following the death of his father, King James II, at the siege of Roxburgh Castle. James III’s reign began with a minority that lasted almost a decade, during which Scotland was governed by a series of regents and factions who struggled for possession of the young king, before his personal rule began in 1469.

Artist/Engraver
Size 28 x 22 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:3640

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