The mathematician and antiquary Folkes was elected to the Royal Society at the age of 23, and later served as its President from 1741-53. He is known for cataloguing the historic gold and silver coins of England.
Artist: Thomas Hudson
Size 16 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref: 3110
Benjamin Hoadly (14 November 1676 – 17 April 1761) was an English clergyman, who was successively Bishop of Bangor, of Hereford, of Salisbury, and finally of Winchester. He is best known as the initiator of the Bangorian Controversy.
Artist: Nathaniel Hone
Size 14 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref: 3108
Bishop of Rochester
Artist: Sir Godfrey Kneller
Size 15 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref: 3107
Directed Wrens repairs to Westminster Abbey and gave facilities for Dryden’s burial
Artist: Michael Dahl
Size 15 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref: 3106
Took part in Bangorian controversy and fell into disgrace
Artist: Simon Francois Ravenet,
Size 16 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref: 3105
Scottish theologian, religious leader. He was an influential bishop who offered confidential advise to William and Mary; wrote “History of His Time,” 1734.
Artist: John Riley
Size 17 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref: 3104
Professor of medicine at Montpellier and Paris, who wrote the first great treatise on syphilis and venereal diseases, and also, with a small anonymously published book, played a fundamental part in the origins of critical textual analysis of works of scripture.
Artist: Louis Halbou.,
Size 15 x 9 cms
Price £10.00
Ref: 3103
Peter was found in the Hertswold Forest by a party of hunters led by George I while on a visit to his Hanover homeland and brought to Great Britain in 1726 by order of his daughter Caroline of Ansbach Princess of Wales.
Artist: published by John Hinton,
Size 16 x 9 cms
Price £10.00
Ref: 3102
Cosimo III de’ Medici was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1670 until his death in 1723, the sixth and penultimate from the House of Medici. He reigned from 1670 to 1723, and was the elder son of Grand Duke Ferdinando II
Artist: Justus Sustermans
Size 30 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
Ref: 3486
Hungarian philologist and poet, a Benedictine monk. With John Fogarasi he compiled a Hungarian dictionary .
Artist/Engraver: Miklós Barabás 1810-1898
Size 23 x 15 cms
Price £18.00
Ref: 3496