Willem van Heythuysen was a Dutch cloth merchant and hofje founder in Haarlem and Weert. He is best known today for his portraits by Frans Hals, though he is remembered locally for his Hofje van Willem Heythuijsen bordering Haarlemmerhout park, which has been in operation for centuries
Artist/Engraver Frans Hals 1582-1666
Size 27 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3627/509
Ferdinand Maria was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 1651 to 1679. The Elector modernized the army and introduced Bavaria’s first government code. Besides encouraging agriculture and industry, he also improved building and restoration works on churches and monasteries since the damage caused during the Thirty Years’ War.
Artist/Engraver Jacob Andreas Friedrich
Size 27 x 16 cms
Price £35.00
Ref:3626
John Frederick I, called the Magnanimous , Duke of Saxony-Wittenberg from 1532, was the principal defender of Luther, a fact that brought him into conflict with Charles V. In 1546 these differences resulted in an armed conflict that culminated at Mühlberg l 1547 when the Imperial army defeated the Schmalkaldic League and captured its leaders, John Frederick and Philip of Hesse. John Frederick was condemned to death, a punishment that was commuted to life imprisonment in exchange for the surrender of the state capital Wittenberg by his wife, Sibyl of Cleves.
Artist/Engraver
Size 18 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3625
Lynden was born in the noble family Aspremont-Lynden as the son of Count Ferdinand of Aspremont-Lynden (1611–1665) and his wife, Landgravine Elisabeth zu Fürstenberg-Heiligenberg (1621–1662). He grew up at the Aspremont-Lynden Castle, in the county of Rekem (Reckheim), a small County in present-day Belgium, belonging to the Holy Roman Empire. Lynden became an officer in the service of the Holy Roman Empire and its Habsburg emperor in Vienna.
Artist/Engraver
Size 20 x 15 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3624
Concino Concini, 1st Marquis d’Ancre was an Italian politician, best known for being a minister of Louis XIII of France, as the favourite of Louis’s mother, Marie de Medici, Queen of France. In 1617, he was killed at the behest of the King.
Artist/Engraver B. Moncornet.
Size 16 x 12 cms
Price 18.00
Ref:3623
Archduchess Marie Valerie Mathilde Amalie of Austria 1868 -1924 was the youngest child of Emperor Franz Joseph I and Empress Elisabeth of Austria. She was usually called Valerie.
On 31 July 1890, she married Archduke Franz Salvator of Austria 1866-1939 the marriage caused a rift between her and her siblings as their marriages had to be dynastic, while Marie Valerie’s was, as Empress Elisabeth allowed, for love and desire.
Artist/Engraver
Size 13 x 12 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3622
Johann Weikhard Freiherr von Valvasor or Johann Weichard Freiherr von Valvasor(Slovene: Janez Vajkard Valvasor, pronounced [ˈʋáːlʋazɔɾ]) or simply Valvasor was a natural historian and polymath from Carniola, present-day Slovenia, and a fellow of the Royal Society in London. He is known as a pioneer in the study of karst topography. Together with his other writings, until the late 19th century his best-known work—the 1689 Glory of the Duchy of Carniola, published in 15 books in four volumes—was the main source for older Slovenian history, making him one of the precursors of modern Slovenian historiography.
Artist/Engraver Matthias Greischer1659-1712
Size 29 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3621
Son of Leonhard III and his wife Barbara von Gleinig, he was born in 1514. He became an imperial councilor in the government of Lower Austria in 1545, and was then admitted to the imperial council of Emperor Maximilian II of the Holy Roman Empire, who created him baron with diploma dated 4 January 1552, then tying the title to the fiefdom of Rohrau on 12 April 1566; with a diploma dated 29 May 1559 he received for himself and his male heirs the hereditary position of stable master for Lower Austria. Leonhard IV was a knight of the Golden Fleece and was the one who founded the fortunes of the von Harrach family.
He had the family tomb built in the Augustinian church in Vienna where he was also buried after his death in 1590.
Artist/Engraver
Size 26 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3620
Charles, Margrave of Burgau, also known as Charles of Austria, was the son of Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria and his first morganatic marriage to Philippine Welser. He was the brother of Andrew of Austria.
Artist/Engraver Custos
Size 27x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3619
Matthias Gottfried (born in Prague 1632, died in Ronsberg 1695) significantly increased the property and reputation of his family. In 1661 he was admitted to the Bohemian knighthood and on August 29, 1675 he was raised to the Bohemian lordship. He was also in the civil service, was only 23 years old, an advocate, became a corporate secretary, in 1660 imperial procurator and later vice-chamberlain in Moravia, then imperial councilor in Bohemia, chairman of the chamber and feudal court, captain of the Pilsen district; He was also consulted on other important matters, repeatedly deployed on diplomatic missions, promoted to Imperial Councilor shortly before his death and appointed ambassador to Poland. With his wife Anna Feliciana Pachta von Rajov (born in Prague on March 30 [272] 1648, died there in 1718) he acquired the rule of Ronsberg with Bezvěrov (Wasserau) and Bernstein; He was also the lien holder of the Electoral Palatinate town and lordship of Playstein, the Vilimov estate, which he purchased from Max Franz Borynč von Lhota, and the Wällischbirken estate with Zeliboric, Tvrzic, Chocholata Lhota and Bucíkov, which he had purchased from Karl Leopold Count of Millesimo .
Artist/Engraver: Johann Christoph Sartorius
Size 25 x 15 cms
Price £35.00
Ref:3618