Poet Laureate and dramatist
Artist: John Michael Rysbrack
Size 17 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3082
Charles Howard, 1st Earl of Nottingham 1536-1624 Lord High Admiral
Charles Howard was Elizabeth I’s cousin and enjoyed her friendship and confidence. Appointed Lord High Admiral in 1585, he held chief command against the Spanish Armada. He was created Earl of Nottingham in 1601 following the success of the Cadiz expedition, which he jointly led with Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. He subsequently acted as a commissioner at Essex’s trial in 1601. He retained royal favour under James I and led an embassy to Spain in 1604 to ratify the peace treaty that ended the Anglo-Spanish war.
Artist: Jacobus Houbraken
Size 17 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3081
Charles Churchill 1731-1764
Author of The Rosciad, 1761, a satire on contemporary actors (only David Garrick escaped his vitriol). Churchill’s other targets included the Prime Minister, Lord Bute, the author, Tobias Smollett and the artist, William Hogarth. He died young on his way to visit his friend, John Wilkes, who was then living in exile in Paris.
Artist: J.S.C. Schaak
Size 15 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3080
Edward Littleton Kt, first Baron Littleton 1589-1645
Lord keeper of the Great Seal
Artist: Sir Anthony Van Dyck
Size 15 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3078
Sir Samuel Garth 1661-1719 physician and poet
Physician and poet. His attempts to establish a poor person’s dispensary were defeated when apothecaries raised the price of drugs; in retaliation he wrote his satiric poem, The Dispensary.
Artist: Sir Godfrey Kneller,
Size 15 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3077
Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon 1609-1674 Statesman
Artist: Sir Peter Lely
Size 15 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3076
Sir Walter Ralegh 1552-1618
A poet, explorer, soldier, sailor, courtier and favourite of Elizabeth I, Ralegh was a true ‘Renaissance Man’. Much of his literary work is lost but about thirty short poems and various prose works survive, including The History of the World. He organised and financed a number of expeditions to North America, and in later life made several unsuccessful attempts to find gold in South America. Implicated in a plotting against James I, Ralegh spent much of the kings reign in the Tower. He was executed for treason in 1618.
Artist: Anthony Walker
Size 16 x 9 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3074
Nicholas Saunderson (or Sanderson) 1682-1739 mathematician
Saunderson went blind aged one year after he contracted smallpox. He taught mathematics, astronomy and optics at Cambridge University from 1707 and became Professor of Mathematics in 1712. He later worked closely with Halley and Flamsteed in their attempts to calculate longitude at sea, one of the major challenges of the eighteenth century.
Artist: John Vanderbank
Size 17 x 11 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3073
Henry Boyle, Baron Carleton d.1725
Chancellor of Exchequer 1701, Lord treasurer of Ireland 1704-1710
Artist: Sir Godfrey Kneller
Size 16 x 9 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3072
John Hampden 1594-1643
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.
Artist: Jacobus Houbraken
Size 16 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3071