Luigi Cherubini was an Italian Classical and pre-Romantic composer. His most significant compositions are operas and sacred music. Beethoven regarded Cherubini as the greatest of his contemporaries
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Size 9 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2453
François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand 1768-1848
French writer, politician, diplomat and historian who founded Romanticism in French literature
Artist: Girodet-Trioson
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Size 11 x 13 cms
Price £24.00
Ref:2451
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein 1776-1817
Commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French woman of letters and historian of Genevan origin whose lifetime overlapped with the events of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic era
Artist: F.Rehberg
Date:1817
Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £22.00
Ref:2450
Jean Racine 1639-1699
Jean-Baptiste Racine, was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille, and an important literary figure in the Western tradition.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Sanlerre
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Size 11 x 17 cms
Price £22.00
Ref:2448
Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine, Knight of Pratz 1790-1869
French writer, poet and politician who was instrumental in the foundation of the Second Republic and the continuation of the Tricolore as the flag of France.
Artist: Ed.Schuler
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Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2447
Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin 1673-1726
Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp-Eutin was a cadet of the reigning ducal House of Holstein-Gottorp who became prince of Eutin, prince-bishop of Lübeck and regent of the Duchy of Holstein-Gottorp.
Size 10 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2446
René Descartes 1596-1650 French philosopher
René Descartes was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist. A native of France, he spent about 20 years of his life in the Dutch Republic after serving for a while in the Dutch States Army of Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange and the Stadtholder of the United Provinces.
Date:1835
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2445
Françoise Marie de Bourbon Duchess of d’Orleans 1677-1749
Françoise Marie de Bourbon, légitimée de France was the youngest illegitimate daughter of Louis XIV of France and his maîtresse-en-titre, Françoise-Athénaïs, Marquise de Montespan. At the age of 14, she was wed to her first cousin Philippe d’Orléans, future Regent of France during the minority of Louis XV
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2444
Frederick VI, Margrave of Baden-Durlach 1617-1677
He was born at Karlsburg Castle, in Durlach (now part of Karlsruhe) as the son of Friedrich V, Margrave of Baden-Durlach and Barbara of Württemberg. He studied in Strasbourg and Paris where he particularly enjoyed the science of war. Later he participated in the defense of German territories against the Ottoman invasion of 1663. Frederick later also participated in the Franco-Dutch War.
Artist: Meyssens
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Size 15 x 24 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2443
Johann Georg von Sachsen 1704–1774
Johann Georg was an illegitimate son of August the Strong, King of Poland and Elector of Saxony, and Ursula Katharina of Altenbockum, by marriage Princess Lubomirska. At that time, the Lubomirski family was ranked among the most influential families of Poland. He received from his father the name Johann Georg and the characteristic features of thick eyebrows. A few days after his birth, his mother was created Princess of Teschen. Johann Georg grew up in his mother’s houses in Dresden and in Breslau (present-day Wroclaw).
Size 19 x 31 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2442