Barrister, was born at Sligo, in Ireland
Subject gender: Male
Artist: S.Drummond
Size 20 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3052
John Gay 1685-1732 poet and dramatist
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
Ref:3054
LOUIS PHILIPPE COMTE DE SEGUR 1753-1830
French diplomat and historian, son of Philippe Henri, marquis de Segur, was born in Paris in December 1753. He entered the army in 1769, served in the American War of Independence in 1781 as a colonel under Rochambeau
Subject gender: Male
Artist:
Size 14 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3046
Sarah Churchill (née Jenyns)
Duchess of Marlborough 1660-1744 Politician and courtier
Subject gender: Female
Artist: Kneller
Size 15 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3047
Andreas Teuffel, Freiherr von Gundersdorf 1522-1592
Born, Deutschlandsberg District, Styria, Austria
Son of Matthaus Teuffel, Herr auf Krottendorf and Apollonia Mallinger
Husband of Maria Anna Teuffel
Father of Katharina von Gilleis, zu Bockfließ; Rudolf Teuffel, Freiherr von Guntersdorf and Karl Teuffel, Freiherr von Gundersdorf
Brother of Christoph Teuffel, Herr auf Frohsdorf; Erasam Teufel von Guntersdorf and Georg von Teuffel, Freiherr von Guntersdorf
Size 30 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref: 3040
Victor I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym
German prince of the House of Ascania who belonged to a cadet branch of the princely house of Anhalt-Bernburg. Through his mother, he inherited the County of Holzappel and Lordship of Schaumburg and founded the cadet branch of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Syang
Size 30 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref: 3042
Count Heinrich Mathias of Thurn-Valsassina 1567-1640
Count Jindřich Matyáš of Thurn-Valsassina, was one of the leaders of the Protestant Bohemian Revolt against Emperor Ferdinand II. He took part in events that led to the Thirty Years’ War, and after the war, he became a military leader and diplomat in Swedish service, who eventually resided in Swedish Estonia.
gender: Male
Artist:
Size 20 x 12 cms
Price £18.00
Ref: 3045
Martin Luther 1483-1546
Martin Luther OSA was a German monk, Catholic priest, professor of theology and seminal figure of a reform movement in 16th century Christianity, subsequently known as the Protestant Reformation.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Stobert
Size 15 x 24 cms
Price £18.00
Ref: 3036
Hans Georg von Arnim-Boitzenburg 1583-1641
Johann or Hans Georg von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1583 in Boitzenburger Land – 28 April 1641, in Dresden) was a German Field Marshal. At different times during the Thirty Years’ War, he was a Field Marshal for the Holy Roman Empire and its opponent the Electorate of Saxony. He also pursued various diplomatic tasks.
Subject gender: Male
Artist:
Size 15 x 11 cms
Price £18.00
Ref: 3038
Feldmarschal-lieuteuant Ludwig Graf Starhemberg
The Battle of Breslau was fought on 22 November 1757 in Breslau during the Third Silesian War. A Prussian army of 28,000 men fought an Austrian army of 60,000 men. The Prussians held off the Austrian attack, losing 6,000 men to the Austrians’ 5,000 men. But one day later the Prussians beat a retreat.
Artist: DORFFMEISTER, István 1777
Size 33 x 25 cms
Price £35.00
Ref: 3043