Martha Hatfield (née Nesbit) 1652


‘the wise virgin,’ the daughter of Anthony Hatfield, by his wife Faith Westley, was born at Leighton, Yorkshire, 27 Sept. 1640. The Hatfields were puritans. In April 1652 Martha was seized with an illness which the physicians were unable to define, but which seems to have been a form of catalepsy. For seventeen days she lay stiff and was unable to speak, and it was said that she could neither see nor hear. When she recovered her voice she uttered rambling recollections of pious discourses abounding in quotations of Scripture.

Artist: James Caulfield 1794
Size 24 x 19 cm

Price £18.00

Ref:3592

Elizabeth Paulet. 1594–1656


Elizabeth Devereux (née Paulet), Countess of Essex
Second wife of 3rd Earl of Essex, and later wife of Sir Thomas Higgons

Artist: William Hollar
Size 13 x 10 cm

Price £18.00

Ref:3591

Leopold Wilhelm, Margrave of Baden-Baden 1626-1671


He was the second son of Wilhelm, Margrave of Baden-Baden and Catharina Ursula von Hohenzollern–Hechingen. He was also the uncle of Louis William, Margrave of Baden-Baden.
Artist: Paul Fürst 1608-1666
Size  10 x 6 cm

Price £14.00

Ref:3590

Friedrich V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach 1594-1659

Frederick V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach (6 July 1594, Sulzburg, Hochschwarzwald – 8 September 1659, Durlach) was a German nobleman, who ruled as margrave of Baden-Durlach from 1622 to his death. He was succeeded by his son Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach.

Size 9.5 x 6 cm

Price £14.00

Ref:3586

Jan Jesenius 1566-1621


He was from an old noble family, the House of Jeszenszky, originally from the Kingdom of Hungary. He presented himself in his own works as eques Ungarus. His father, Boldizsár Jeszenszky de Nagyjeszen, left Turóc County (today the Turiec region in Slovakia) because of the Ottomans’ military campaign against Upper Hungary and settled down in Silesia in 1555. He married Marta Schülerin, who came from a wealthy German bourgeois family.

Artist: Matthäus Merian 1617
Size 13 x 10 cm

Price £14.00

Ref:3587

John Hampden 1595-1643 English parliamentarian

One of the 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/Engraver Chapman after Jacobus Houbraken
Size 14 x 10cms
Price £14.00

Ref:3695

Ludovico Maria Sforza 1452-1508

Ludovico Maria Sforza, also known as Ludovico il Moro, and called the “arbiter of Italy” by historian Francesco Guicciardini, was an Italian nobleman who ruled as the Duke of Milan from 1494 to 1499.

Artist/Engraver
Size 15 x 14 cms
Price £14.00

Ref:3694