Came from a noble family from the Margraviate of Brandenburg. He was born either in Lichterfelde near Eberswalde in 1599 or Prenden near Bernau in 1605. Sparr was an imperial officer during the Thirty Years’ War
Size 16 x 21 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:859
General officer of Hanoverian soldiers during the War of the First Coalition who famously led one of the Coalition columns at the Battle of Tourcoing. In 1743 he joined the Hanoverian military service and fought in the War of the Austrian Succession and Seven Years’ War, fighting at Minden and Lutterberg. He led a battalion at Gibraltar in the American Revolutionary War. In the War of the First Coalition he led his soldiers at Valenciennes, Hondschoote, Mouscron, Tourcoing and Tournai. On 11 December 1794 while defending the Bommelerwaard in the Dutch Republic, his hand was taken off by a cannonball and he died shortly afterward.
Size 12 x 20.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2192
Countess Anna Friederike of Promnitz-Pless was born in Żary 1711 to Erdmann II, Count of Promnitz and Princess Anna Maria of Saxe-Weissenfels. Her mother was a daughter of Johann Adolf I, Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels and Johanna Magdalena of Saxe-Altenburg.
In 1732 she married Augustus Louis, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen in Żary, becoming the princess consort of Anhalt-Köthen. Her husband was previously married to her elder sister, Emilie of Promnitz-Pless, who had died earlier that year.
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2533
Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen of Bohemia and Hungary; and Archduchess of Austria by her marriage to Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor. She was renowned for her delicate beauty and also for being the mother of Empress Maria Theresa. She was the longest serving Holy Roman Empress.1
Size 14 x 20 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:187
Johannes Leisentritt, also Johann Leisentrit (May 1527 – 24 November 1586) was a Catholic priest, dean of St. Peter in Bautzen and administrator of the Diocese of Meißen, responsible for Lusatia. He is known for publishing a 1567 hymnal.
Subject nationality: German
Subject gender: Male
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Date:1562
Size 10 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2375
Frederick of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderbourg-Wiesenbourg was the 2nd Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Wiesenburg and an Imperial Field Marshal.
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:715
Ernest Louis of Hesse-Darmstadt was Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt from 1678 to 1739. His parents were Landgrave Louis VI of Hesse-Darmstadt and Elisabeth Dorothea of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg. Ernest Louis’s desire to emulate the French court under Louis XIV ran his country into debt.
Date:1667
Size 10 x 14.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:403
Karl von Mansfeld was a German general during the Cologne War and the Ottoman-Habsburg wars. Von Mansfeld was the son of Count Peter Ernst I von Mansfeld-Vorderort, born in present-day Luxembourg, and was educated in France.
Size 12 x 16 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2578
Ferdinand Maria was a Wittelsbach ruler of Bavaria and a prince-elector of the Holy Roman Empire from 1651 to 1679. The Elector modernized the army and introduced Bavaria’s first government code.
Size 20 x 33 cms
Price £55.00
Ref:1226
Augustus Louis of Anhalt-Köthen, was a German prince of the House of Ascania and ruler of the principality of Anhalt-Köthen. He was the third son of Emmanuel Lebrecht, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, by his wife Gisela Agnes of Rath.
Size 17 x 29 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:551