Tag Archives: Hungary

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Lőrinc Orczy 1718-1789 Hungarian Lord lieutenant, general and poet.

István Illésházy 1762-1838 Hungarian soldier, chairman, politician

Count Illésházi István Illésházy (Bratislava, April 30, 1762 – Baden bei Wien, Austria, July 30, 1838) was a nobleman, politician, and military officer. He was a colonel in the noble uprising against Napoleon, then hereditary lord, and a politician sympathetic to the opposition to the reform from the early 1800s. He was a director of the Hungarian Society of Scholars from 1830. He was the last scion of the large landowning nobleman Illésházy family.

Size 30 x 25 cm
Price £28.00

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Dániel Berzsenyi 1776-1836

Dániel Berzsenyi was a Hungarian poet. Berzsenyi was one of the most contradictory poets of Hungarian literature. He lived the life of a farmer, and wished to be close to the events of Hungarian literature

Artist/Engraver: Miklós Barabás 1810-1898

Size 23 x 16 cms

Price £18.00

Ref: 3497

József Eötvös

József baron Eötvös de Vásárosnamény 1813 -1871 Hungarian writer and statesman, the son of Ignacz baron Eötvös de Vásárosnamény and Anna von Lilien, who stemmed from an Erbsälzer family of Werl in Germany.

Artist/Engraver: Miklós Barabás 1810 -1898

Size 23 x 16 cms

Price £18.00

Ref: 3498

Emeric (Henry) king of Hungary 1174-1204

King of Hungary and Croatia between 1196 and 1204. In 1184, his father, Béla III of Hungary, ordered that he be crowned king, and appointed him as ruler of Croatia and Dalmatia around 1195.
Size 14 x 22 cms
Price £28.00

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Stephan Graf Pálffy of Erdöd

The House of Pálffy, also known as Pálffy von Erdöd, Pálffy de Erdöd, or Pálffy of Erdöd, is the name of an old Hungarian noble family, later incorporated into Austrian nobility. Members of the family held significant positions in the Habsburg monarchy. Erdőd is the Hungarian name for Ardud, a town situated in Transylvania.
Size 18 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2501

Stephan Pálffy von Erdöd 1585-1646

Stephan II [István] Count Pálffy [Palfy, Balvi] of Erdöd June 1585 Bibersburg-29.5.1646 Vienna], successor of his father Nicholas II [10.9.1552 Csábrágh-23.4.1600 Cervený Kameň, married to Maria Magdalena Fugger von Kirchberg und Weißenhorn [30.4.1566-295.1646], a daughter of Baron Markus Fugger [Marx Fugger) von der Lilie [14.2.1529-18.6.1597) in Augsburg[4] and Countess Sybilla von Eberstein [1531-1589], as High Count of Pressburg, also Crown Guardian and Imperial Councillor, was in 1634 in the raised to the rank of Hungarian count.
He was an imperial colonel of the light cavalry. In 1632 he had raised 1,000 Hungarian throws.
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Size 6 x 10 cms
Price £14.00

Ref:2698

Baron Miklós Wesselényi de Hadad 1796-1850

Hungarian statesman, leader of the upper house of the Diet, member of the Board of Academy of Sciences, hero of the 1838 Pest flood.
Size 11 x 15 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:1908

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel 1691-1750

Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel was Princess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen of Bohemia and Hungary; and Archduchess of Austria by her marriage to Emperor Charles VI. She was renowned for her delicate beauty and also for being the mother of Empress Maria Theresa.
Size 9.3 x 16 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:149

Lajos II of Hungary 1506-1526

Louis II ( Czech: Ludvík Jagellonský; Croatian: Ludovik II.; Slovak: Ľudovít II.) was King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia from 1516 to 1526. He was killed during the Battle of Mohács fighting the Ottomans, whose victory led to the Ottoman annexation of large parts of Hungary.

Subject gender: Male

Artist: N de Clercq

Size 20 x 13 cms

Ref: 2575