Butler was a writer whose poem, Hudibras, published in three parts (1662, 1663 and 1678), was an immediate success. Based on his experiences in the households of the Puritan gentry, it is an envenomed satirical attack on Puritanism, written in cantering octosyllabics, full of puns and outrageous rhymes. Charles II enjoyed it, and for a century it was a bestseller.
Artist: Sir Peter Lely
Size 16 x 9 cms
Price £10.00
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Anna produced the humanitarian Tales of Pity on Fishing, Shooting and Hunting in 1814, and collaborated with her sister on collections of stories. In all, she published some thirty works, many being translated into French.
Subject gender: Female
Artist: George Henry Harlow
Size 13 x 11 cms
Price £10.00
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The youngest daughter of Henry IV of France and Marie de Medici, Henrietta Maria married Charles I in 1625, her Catholicism alienated many of her English subjects. She gave strong, loving support to Charles I during his troubles, and practical assistance during the Civil War by personally bringing munitions from France, and pawning her jewellery to raise funds.
Subject gender: Female
Artist: Sir Anthony Van Dyck
Size 16 x 9.5 cms
Price £10.00
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The Roman Catholic queen of Charles II and daughter of John, Duke of Braganza, afterwards King of Portugal, Catherine came to England in 1662, bringing a dowry of Tangier, Bombay and £300,000. Shy, solemn and pious, she was devoted to Charles who, although he hurt her by his infidelities, was genuinely attached to her.
Subject gender: Female
Artist: John Smith, after Jacob Huysmans
Size 16 x 9 cms
Price £12.00
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English soldier and member of Parliament, and one of the regicides of King Charles I.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: J. de Claussin,
Size 21 x 14 cms
Price £16.00
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Byron was famous for his swaggering good looks and his brilliant, reckless personality. The publication of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812) made him famous overnight. He was also a scathing critic and his Don Juan (1819-24) is the ultimate satire of Regency society. He lived abroad from 1816 in self-imposed exile and became an attraction for English tourists. A lifelong supporter of liberal causes, he joined the Greeks in their fight against Ottoman rule but died of fever in Missolonghi in 1824.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: George Henry Harlow
Size 12 x 10 cms
Price £14.00
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Traveller, professor of minerolgy Cambridge University
Subject gender: Male
Artist: John Opie
Size 18 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
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One of the central figures at the start of the English Revolution. He entered Parliament as an MP in 1621, eight years before Charles I dissolved Parliament. Ship Money was a tax sometimes levied on coastal towns in wartime to pay for ships to protect the country from invasion. Charles, no longer receiving money from Parliament, in 1635 extended the Ship Money tax to include inland towns and counties. This attempt to create a new form of taxation without parliamentary sanction was resisted by Hampden, who refused to pay the levy. The king was unable to collect Ship Money, and was forced to recall Parliament in 1640. Hampden was one of the five MPs selected by Charles I for impeachment in 1642.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Robert Walker
Size 20 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
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Barrister, was born at Sligo, in Ireland
Subject gender: Male
Artist: S.Drummond
Size 20 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
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Poet and dramatist, best remembered for his hugely successful dramatic satire The Beggar’s Opera . Along with his friend Alexander Pope. Gay was a member of the Scriblerus Club, a group of like-minded men who exposed and attacked ignorance and pretentiousness in literature. Johnson did not rate Gay’s poetry highly but credited him with the invention of the ballad opera.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: William Aikman
Size 16 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
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