Czech-born American stage actress. Arrived in the United States in 1867 and first performed at the Academy of Music in New York City, on October 9, 1867, managed by Max Maretzek. She spoke no English, only German and often worked with all English speaking casts.
Artist/Engraver August Weger 1823-1892 Leipzig
Size28 x 20cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3731/514
Humprecht Jan Czernin was the Habsburg imperial ambassador to Venice and Rome. He was appointed ambassador of King Leopold in Venice in 1659.
Humprecht died at the castle in Kosmonosy on 3 March 1682 at the age of 54 years. He was buried in the chapel of St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, but his heart was placed in a tin box and placed in the Czernin Chapel of the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Stará Boleslav. The Czernin Palace was commissioned by him in the 1660s. He had also the Humprecht Castle in Sobotka built, named after him. It was built as his summer house and hunting castle in 1666–1668.
Artist/Engraver Johann Borcking 1670
Size 24 x 16 cms
Price £SOLD
Ref:3660
Humprecht Jan Czernin was the Habsburg imperial ambassador to Venice and Rome. He was appointed ambassador of King Leopold in Venice in 1659.
Humprecht died at the castle in Kosmonosy on 3 March 1682 at the age of 54 years. He was buried in the chapel of St. Vitus Cathedral in Prague, but his heart was placed in a tin box and placed in the Czernin Chapel of the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Stará Boleslav. The Czernin Palace was commissioned by him in the 1660s. He had also the Humprecht Castle in Sobotka built, named after him. It was built as his summer house and hunting castle in 1666–1668.
Artist/Engraver Johann Borcking 1670
Size 26 x 18cms
Price £28.00
Ref:3661
Šebestián Kristián Zeidler (German: Sebastian Christian Zeidler, 1620 Tachov – 1689 Prague) was a Czech-German physician, university teacher and writer active mainly in Prague. In 1685 he was ennobled.
Size 19 x 13 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:834
Jan Žižka z Trocnova a Kalicha (English: John Zizka of Trocnov and the Chalice; was a Czech general who was a contemporary and follower of Jan Hus and was a Radical Hussite and led the Taborites. Žižka was a successful military leader and is now a Czech national hero. He was nicknamed “One-eyed Žižka”, having lost one and then both eyes. Jan Žižka led Hussite forces against three crusades and never lost a single battle although he was completely blind in his last stages of life.
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:81
Josef Kronenberg moved to Kunín from Hungary together with his doctor father. After the sudden death of his wife, Josef was taken in by Countess Walburga and entrusted to the care of her teacher and later guardian Anton Schneider. At fourteen, Josef let himself be recruited into the army, but against the wishes of Countess Walburga. He therefore preferred to return to Kunín as a lieutenant of the hunting battalion, and since then his career has risen steeply. He eventually became a general of the gendarmerie and a holder of the baronial title.
Size 11 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:731
František Karel Count Přehořovský of Kvasejovice (1644/1645 – 6 November 1723 Prague [1]) was a Czech nobleman, lawyer, financier and politician. As an ambitious member of a noble family, recently ennobled, and a graduate of the Faculty of Law, he held positions in the economic administration of the Kingdom of Bohemia from a young age.
Date:
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:813
Joseph Gelinek was a Czech-born composer and pianist, living in Vienna for most of his career. He was known particularly for composing piano variations.
Artist: Carl Meyer
Date:
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:734
Johann Jakob Breunner was born 1566
Johann had one sister: Ursula von Attems (born von Breuner).
Johann married Ms. Breunner (born von Preysing).
one daughter: Eleanore Katharina von Herberstein (born von Breuner).
Size 18 x 29 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2062
Johann Michael was a member of the noble Althann family, son of Michael Johann von Althann and his wife Princess Maria Theresa of Liechtenstein. Inducted into the court, he became imperial chamberlain, privy councilor and finally, from 1716 to 1722, Oberststallmeister on behalf of Emperor Charles VI of the Holy Roman Empire. Although he had not held high-profile positions at court, his figure was particularly significant and had considerable influence as the emperor’s favourite.
Size 8 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:1963