Hendrik Conscience 1812-1883

Belgian author. He is considered the pioneer of Dutch-language literature in Flanders, writing at a time when Belgium was dominated by the French language among the upper classes, in literature and government. Conscience fought as a Belgian revolutionary in 1830 and was a notable writer in the Romanticist style popular in the early 19th century. He is best known for his romantic nationalist novel, The Lion of Flanders (1838), inspired by the victory of a Flemish peasant militia over French knights at the 1302 Battle of the Golden Spurs during the Franco-Flemish War.

Artist/Engraver
Size 28 x 21 cms
Price £16.00

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Philipp Karl von Eltz-Kempenich 1665-1743

Philipp Karl von Eltz-Kempenich was born at Burg Eltz on 26 October 1665. In 1686, he enrolled in the Collegium Germanicum in Rome and received a substantial theological education. He later became a canon of Mainz Cathedral and later also of Trier Cathedral.

Artist/Engraver
Size 19 x 11 cms
Price £18.00

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Johann Heinrich Berger 1657-1732

Berger married Maria Sophia Jacobi (* 1665 Dresden; † 1711), the daughter of Dr. jur. Adam Christoph Jacobi and Maria Gertrud Börner (1645–1711). The couple had eight children, four sons and a daughter survived him. The surviving sons were Christof Heinrich von Berger, Johann Samuel von Berger (born August 16, 1691 in Wittenberg † September 17, 1757 in Celle, enrolled at the University of Wittenberg on October 14, 1703, received a master’s degree in philosophy, licentiate on October 18, 1709 and doctor of medicine in September 1713, doctor in Celle, married for the second time in 1726 to Margarethe Louise von Ramdohr (1705–1790), granddaughter of Andreas Ramdohr), Johann August von Berger and Friedrich Ludwig von Berger. The daughter married the theologian Andreas Charitius.

Artist/Engraver
Size 20 x 15 cms
Price £28.00

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Ignaz Kassian Bonaventura von Enzenberg 1709-1772

Ignaz Kassian Bonaventura von Enzenberg (born July 14, 1709 in Brixen; † September 18, 1772 in Untermais near Meran), senior clerk and court chamber councilor.

Artist/Engraver Franz Carl Reissig
Size 16 x 9.5 cms
Price £28.00

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Vittoria della Rovere 1622-1694

Grand Duchess of Tuscany as the wife of Grand Duke Ferdinando II.
She gave her husband four children, two of which would survive infancy the future Cosimo III and Francesco Maria de’ Medici, Duke of Rovere and Montefeltro. She was the Duchess of Rovere and Montefeltro in her own right and these went to her youngest son when she died. She was later the guardian of her three grandchildren. Her marriage bought a lot of art treasures to the House of Medici which are today at the Palazzo Pitti Uffizi Gallery in Florence. She did not get on with her daughter in law Marguerite Louise d’Orléans.

Artist/Engraver Pieter de Jode
Size 29 x 18 cms
Price £28.00

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Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi 1555-1592

Moderata Fonte, directly translating to Modest Well, is a pseudonym of Modesta di Pozzo di Forzi (or Zorzi), also known as Modesto Pozzo (or Modesta, feminization of Modesto),(1555–1592) a Venetian writer and poet.[5] Besides the posthumously-published dialogues, Giustizia delle donne and Il merito delle donne (gathered in The Worth of Women, 1600), for which she is best known, she wrote a romance and religious poetry. Details of her life are known from the biography by Giovanni Niccolò Doglioni (1548-1629), her uncle, included as a preface to the dialogue.

Artist/Engraver
Size 32 x 21 cms
Price £35.00

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Anna Justina Frau von Auersperg b.1594


Victor Frederick of Anhalt 1700-1765
The House of Auersperg (Slovene: Auerspergi or Turjaški) is an Austrian princely family, which once held estates in the Holy Roman Empire. The princely family of Auersperg originated as a junior branch of the comital line of Auersperg from Carniola, one of the hereditary Habsburg duchies in what is now Slovenia. The Auerspergs were raised to princely status in 1653, and they became “immediate” princes of the Holy Roman Empire in 1664. The princes of Auersperg also held at various times the duchies of Münsterberg and Gottschee. Their territories were mediatised by Austria and Baden in 1806, and the family is counted as high nobility.

Artist: Johann Franck
Size 23 x 16 cm

Price £18.00

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Pyotr Rumyantsev 1725-1796

Count Pyotr Alexandrovich Rumyantsev-Zadunaisky was one of the foremost Russian generals of the 18th century, and one of the great military commanders in universal history between 1618 and 1905.Rumyantsev used mobile divisional squares for the first time in history as opposed to linear battle orders and initiated the formation of light (jaeger) battalions in the Russian Army, which operated in a scattered order.
He governed Little Russia in the name of Empress Catherine the Great from the abolition of the Cossack Hetmanate in 1764 until Catherine’s death 32 years later. Monuments to his victories include the Kagul Obelisk in Tsarskoye Selo (1772), the Rumyantsev Obelisk on Vasilievsky Island (1798–1801), and a galaxy of Derzhavin’s odes.

Size 9 x 9 cm

Price £18.00

STK.3594

Maria Theresa Empress of Austria 1717-1780

Maria Theresa (Maria Theresia Walburga Amalia Christina) was ruler of the Habsburg dominions from 1740 until her death in 1780, and the only woman to hold the position suo jure (in her own right). She was the sovereign of Austria, Hungary, Croatia, Bohemia, Transylvania, Mantua, Milan, Galicia and Lodomeria, the Austrian Netherlands, and Parma. By marriage, she was Duchess of Lorraine, Grand Duchess of Tuscany, and Holy Roman Empress.
Size 17 x 11 cms
Price £14.00

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