Rear-Admiral Frederick William Beechey FRS was an English naval officer, artist, explorer, hydrographer and writer.
Size 8 x 10 cms
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George II as Prince of Wales. 1683-1760
George II was King of Great Britain and Ireland, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 11 June 1727 until his death in 1760. Born and brought up in northern Germany, George is the most recent British monarch born outside Great Britain
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
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Samuel Johnson 1709-1784
Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, playwright, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, and lexicographer. He was a devout Anglican. Politically, he was a committed Tory
Artist: J.Bacon(statuary)
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Size 10 x 19 cms
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Mungo Park 1771-1806 African Explorer
Scottish explorer of West Africa. After an exploration of the upper Niger River around 1796, he wrote a popular and influential travel book titled Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa in which he theorized the Niger and Congo merged to become the same river.
Artist: Bollinger
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Size 9 x 10 cms
Price £9.50
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George Buchanan 1506-1583
George Buchanan was a Scottish historian and humanist scholar. According to historian Keith Brown, Buchanan was “the most profound intellectual sixteenth century Scotland produced.” His ideology of resistance to royal usurpation gained widespread acceptance during the Scottish Reformation
Artist: Poubus
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Size 105 x 13 cms
Price £38.00
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Edward Jenner 1749-1823
Edward Jenner, FRS FRCPE was an English physician who was a contributor of the smallpox vaccine. The practice was popularized by Jenner and was hence used ubiquitously until now to prevent several diseases.
Artist: Fontaine
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Size 13 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
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Walter Leslie, Count Leslie. 1606-1667
Count Walter Leslie (Fetternear House, Aberdeenshire, 1607 – Vienna, 4 March 1667) was a Scottish soldier and diplomat. He gained the positions of Imperial Field Marshal, Count of the Holy Roman Empire, Governor on the Croatian-Slavonian Military Frontier, Imperial Ambassador to Naples, Rome in 1645 and to Constantinople in 1665–1666.
Artist: Leonardo
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Size 16 x 25 cms
Price £28.00
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William Hawes 1736-1808
English physician and philanthropist, founder of the Royal Humane Society. As well as his work to spread the practice of resuscitation, he was concerned to relieve poverty in east London.
Artist: Bertonnier
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Size 12 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
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Mary I, Queen of England 1516-1558
Mary Tudor (1516–58) was Queen Mary I from 1553 until her death. She was the first female ruler of England. The only child of Henry VIII and his first wife, Katharine of Aragon, she was almost immediately embroiled in European dynastic politics when, at the age of two, she was betrothed to the Dauphin of France.
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Size 13 x 13 cms
Price £28.00
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Thomas Chatterton 1752-1770
English poet whose precocious talents ended in suicide at age 17. He was an influence on Romantic artists of the period such as Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth and Coleridge. Although fatherless and raised in poverty, he was an exceptionally studious child, publishing mature work by the age of 11.
Size 9 x 12 cms
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