Johann or Hans Georg von Arnim-Boitzenburg (1583 in Boitzenburger Land – 28 April 1641, in Dresden) was a German Field Marshal. At different times during the Thirty Years’ War, he was a Field Marshal for the Holy Roman Empire and its opponent the Electorate of Saxony. He also pursued various diplomatic tasks.
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Size 15 x 11 cms
Price £18.00
Ref: 3038
Hammermeister began his stage career as an opera singer in 1823 at the Schwerin Court Theater . From 1824 to 1828 he was at the Braunschweig Court Theater . In 1828 he went to the then newly formed Hoftheater Leipzig . Here he became known in operas composed by Heinrich Marschner , initially in 1828 in The Vampyr . In Marschner’s opera Der Templer and der Jüdin , premiered in 1829 , Hammermeister sang the Templar, a role that Marschner had written for him. Here Richard Wagner also heard him , who was impressed by him. From 1832 to 1835 he worked at the Royal Opera in Berlin, here too, Marschner’s Templar was performed with him in the leading role. From 1835 to 1840 Hammermeister was engaged at the Hamburg City Theater.
Artist: Kitzeron
Size 36 x 25 cms
Price £28.00
Ref: 3037
Charles the Fat 839-888, also known as Charles III, was the Carolingian Emperor from 881 to 888. The youngest son of Louis the German and Hemma, Charles was a great-grandson of Charlemagne and was the last Carolingian to rule over a united empire.
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Size 29 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
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Albert I of 1255 –1308 was King of the Romans and Duke of Austria, the eldest son of German King Rudolph I of Habsburg and his first wife Gertrude of Hohenburg.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Klupfel
Size 15 x 12 cms
Price £18.00
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John Frederick ( Johann Friedrich; 1625, Herzberg am Harz – 18 December 1679, Augsburg) was duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and ruled over thePrincipality of Calenberg, a subdivision of the duchy, from 1665 until his death.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: 1668
Size 22 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:843
The House of Fugger is a German family that was historically a prominent group of European bankers, members of the fifteenth- and sixteenth-century mercantile patriciate of Augsburg, international mercantile bankers, and venture capitalists. Alongside the Welser family, the Fugger family controlled much of the European economy in the sixteenth century and accumulated enormous wealth. The Fuggers held a near monopoly on the European copper market.
Artist: Lucus Kilain 1579-1637
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Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
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Field Marshal Lieutenant General of the Franconian District
Artist: J.M.B.
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Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
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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
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Empress consort of Austria by marriage to Francis I of Austria. She was a daughter of King Maximilian I Joseph of Bavaria and Princess Augusta Wilhelmine of Hesse-Darmstadt.
Size 9 x 14 cms
Price £14.00
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Ludwig Wilhelm, margrave of Baden-Baden. Only son of Ferdinand Maximilian. From 1689, commander of the Imperial army in the war against the Ottomans, in the War of the Grand Alliance and in the War of the Spanish Succession.
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Size 6 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
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