Aelius Galenus or Claudius Galenus, often Anglicized as Galen and better known as Galen of Pergamon, was a Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire
Subject gender: Male
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Size 15 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2477
René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou 1714-1792
French lawyer, politician, and chancellor of France, whose attempts at reform signalled the failure of enlightened despotism in France.
Size 24 x 30 cms
Price £28.00
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Alexis Claude Clairaut 1713-1765 mathematician
Alexis Claude Clairaut was a French mathematician, astronomer, and geophysicist. He was a prominent Newtonian whose work helped to establish the validity of the principles and results that Sir Isaac Newton had outlined in the Principia of 1687
Artist: C.N.Cochin
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Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
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Abbé Prévost 1697-1763
Antoine François Prévost d’Exiles, usually known simply as the Abbé Prévost, was a French author and novelist.
Artist: J.F.Selamidt
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Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
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Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon 1674 -1762 French poet
French poet and tragedian. He is sometimes known as Crébillon père or Crébillon le Tragique to distinguish him from his son Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crébillon.
Artist: De la Tour
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Size 19 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
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Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp 1636-1715
Hedwig Eleonora of Holstein-Gottorp was Queen of Sweden from 1654 until 1660 by marriage to Charles X Gustav of Sweden, and the mother of Charles XI. She served as regent during the minority of her son from 1660 until 1672, and during the minority of her grandson Charles XII in 1697
Artist: Jacob Sandrart
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Size 22 x 31 cms
Price £28.00
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Maria Amalia of Saxony 1724 -1760, queen of Naples and Sicily
Maria Amalia (Maria Amalia Christina Franziska Xaveria Flora Walburga; was Queen of Spain from 10 August 1759 until her death in 1760 as the wife of King Charles III. Previously, she had been Queen of Naples and Sicily since marrying Charles on 19 June 1738. She was born a princess of Poland and Saxony, daughter of King Augustus III of Poland and Princess Maria Josepha of Austria. Maria Amalia and Charles had thirteen children, of whom seven survived into adulthood. A popular consort, Maria Amalia oversaw the construction of the Caserta Palace outside Naples as well as various other projects, and she is known for her influence upon the affairs of state.
Artist: Martin Friedrich Bernigeroth 1737-1801
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Size 22 x 32 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2467
Rudolph of Anhalt-Zerbst 1576-1621
Rudolph of Anhalt-Zerbst, was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the unified Principality of Anhalt. From 1603, he was ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Zerbst
Size 17 x 23 cms
Price £28.00
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Bertel Thorwaldsen 1770-1844 Danish sculptor
Bertel Thorvaldsen was a Danish sculptor of international fame and medallist, who spent most of his life in Italy. Thorvaldsen was born in Copenhagen into a Danish/Icelandic family of humble means, and was accepted to the Royal Danish Academy of Art when he was eleven years old
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
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Annibale Carracci, 1560,-1609, Italian painter
Italian painter who was influential in recovering the classicizing tradition of the High Renaissance from the affectations of Mannerism. He was the most talented of the three painters of the Carracci family.
Artist: D.Koch
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Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2464