Josef Filipp Freiherr von Böhm. Field marshal lieutenant, commanding general in Upper and Lower Austria and civil and military deputy governor.
Artist: Edward Kaiser 1849
Size 38 x 26 cms
Price £38.00
Ref:3490
Hugo Grotius (Huigh de Groot) 1583-1645
Dutch scholar
Artist: Jacobus Houbraken
Size 18 x 10 cms
Price £12.00
Ref: 3093
William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle 1592-1676
Writer, patron and royalist army officer
Artist: Sir Anthony Van Dyck
Size 15 x 9 cms
Price £10.00
Ref: 3094
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford 1676-1745, Prime Minister
Walpole was a Whig statesman but in all but name he was Prime Minister, 1721-42. He came to office in the wake of the South Sea Bubble crisis and built up British prosperity in a long period of peace by his economic reforms. He obtained more power than any previous minister and remained in office for over twenty years, resorting to bribery and patronage to overcome unpopularity. His reign came to an end when he was drawn into an unsuccessful war with Spain, which came to be known as the War of Jenkins’ Ear. He was, however, made Earl of Orford in 1742 after his defeat in the House of Commons.
Artist: Jacobus Houbraken
Size 14 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref: 3095
Henry Pelham 1695-1754 Prime Minister
Whig statesman, who served as First Lord of the Treasury, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1743 and Robert Walpole’s successor as Prime Minister from 1743 to 1754
Artist: William Hoare
Size 16 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref: 3096
William Russell, Lord Russell 1639-1683
Known as ‘The Patriot’, he was an opponent of James II and supported the Exclusion Bill which attempted to remove him from the order of succession; executed for treason.
rtist: Sir Godfrey Kneller
Size 17 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3097
Richard Mead 1673-1754, Physician
Having trained in Leiden in the 1690s, Richard Mead became the leading surgeon in early eighteenth-century Britain. He earned great sums attending many of the era’s leading figures including Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Robert Walpole. He was also physician to George I, George II and Queen Caroline whom he encouraged to inoculate the royal children against smallpox.
Artist: Allan Ramsay
Size 16 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Jonathan Swift 1667-1745
Author, dean of St.Patricks, Dublin, wrote Gulliver’s Travels.
Artist: George Vertue, after Charles Jervas
Size 16 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3099
Thomas Herring 1693-1757 Archbishop of Canterbury
Artist: Thomas Hudson
Size 16 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3100
Samuel Chandler 1693-1766
Dissenting minister and theologian
Artist: after Mason Chamberlin
Size 15 x 9 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3101