Bernard Palissy was a French Huguenot potter, hydraulics engineer and craftsman, famous for having struggled for sixteen years to imitate Chinese porcelain
Artist: Durupt
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2458
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Raphael) 1483-1520 artist
Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur.
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2457
Lucas Cranach 1472-1553 painter
Lucas Cranach the Elder was a German Renaissance painter and printmaker in woodcut and engraving. He was court painter to the Electors of Saxony for most of his career, and is known for his portraits
Size 12 x 17 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2456
Nicholas Poussin 1594-1665 painter
French painter who was a leading painter of the classical French Baroque style, although he spent most of his working life in Rome. Most of his works were on religious and mythological subjects painted for a small group of Italian and French collectors
Artist: Geoffroy
Date:
Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2455
Denis Diderot 1713-1784 writer
Denis Diderot was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie along with Jean le Rond d’Alembert. He was a prominent figure during the Enlightenment.
Artist: Van Loo
Date:
Size 13 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2454
Luigi Cherubini 1760-1842 Italian-born composer
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
Date:
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
Date:
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
Date:
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
Date:
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2447