The Freiherr von Blomberg family was typically based around North-Rhine-Westfalia and Lower Saxony, though Bavarian extensions are frequent. During the centuries the Family line spread throughout Eastern Europe from the Baltic sea through to Romania.
Size 17 x 14 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3585
Michael von Kienmayer was an Austrian general. Kienmayer joined the army of the Habsburg monarchy and fought against the Kingdom of Prussia and Ottoman Turkey. During the French Revolutionary Wars, he continued to make his reputation in the cavalry and became a general officer
Engraved by Johann Ernst Mansfeld 1749 – 1796
Size 16 x 10 cm
Price £14.00
Ref:3578
Writer University of Vienna
Engraved by Johann Ernst Mansfeld 1749 – 1796
Size 16 x 10 cm
Price £14.00
Ref:3577
Prominent civil servant in the chancellery (Hofkanzlei) in Vienna, where he settled in 1753. He wrote numerous plays, many in the manner of Lessing, including Der Minister (1771).
Engraved by Johann Ernst Mansfeld 1749 – 1796
Size 16 x 10 cm
Price £14.00
Ref:3575
Succeeded his uncle Charles IV, Duke of Lorraine as titular Duke of Lorraine and Bar in 1675; both duchies were occupied by France from 1634 to 1661 and 1670 to 1697. Born in exile in Vienna, Charles spent his military career in the service of the Habsburg monarchy
Engraved by Abraham de Blois. 1679-1720
Painted by Charles Herbel 1656-1703
Size 40 x 30 cm
Price £48.00
Ref:3574
Military governor of Vienna from 1680, the city’s defender during the Battle of Vienna in 1683, Imperial general during the Great Turkish War, and President of the Hofkriegsrat. Generations have idealized Starhemberg as saviour of the Western world and culture. By order of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, a statue was erected in his honour in 1872 at the Heeresgeschichtliches Museum in Vienna, where the Battle of Vienna is thoroughly documented, with Starhemberg’s épée and armour on display.
Engraved by Thomas von Wiering circa 1684
Size 36 x 29 cm
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Price £78.00
Ref:3560
Franz Seraph von Dietrichstein, of the Austrian and Moravian House of Dietrichstein, was Prince of Dietrichstein, Archbishop of Olomouc, Governor of Moravia and a Cardinal
Artist: Adriaen van Bloemen 1639-1697
Engraver Tobias Sadler 1641 – 1679
Size 27 x 16 cm
Price £28.00
Ref:3542
Anna Caterina Gonzaga, OSM, religious name Anna Juliana, was an Archduchess of Austria who became a religious Sister of the Servite Order after the death of her husband, the Archduke Ferdinand II of Austria. A cause for her beatification is open but has not advanced since the 17th century
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Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:2909
Barbara of Austria was born in Vienna to Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor and Anna of Bohemia and Hungary. From 1547, in Innsbruck with her sisters Magdalena, Margareta, Helena and Johanna, she received a deeply religious upbringing.
Subject gender: Female
Size 30 x 18 cms
Price £18.00
Ref: 2921
Albert VII was the ruling Archduke of Austria for a few months in 1619 and, jointly with his wife, Isabella Clara Eugenia, sovereign of the Habsburg Netherlands between 1598 and 1621. Prior to this, he had been a cardinal, Archbishop of Toledo, viceroy of Portugal and Governor General of the Habsburg Netherlands
Size 17.5 x 26.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:832