Duke of Mantua from 1550 to 1587, and of Montferrat from 1574 to 1587. He was the second son of Federico II Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua and Margaret Palaeologina of Montferrat. In 1574, Montferrat was elevated to a Duchy and Guglielmo became its first duke. He was succeeded as Duke of both duchies by his son Vincenzo.
Size 16 x 27 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1981
Prince d’Albanie, adventurer from Budva who gained considerable notoriety for posing as royalty.
Artist: R.Brichet
Date:1770
Size 16 x 20.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:173
Ruler of the Duchy of Mantua and Montferrat from 1587 to 1612. He was married to Eleonora di Medici in 1584 and his daughter, Eleonore Gonzaga, married Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor.
Size 16 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2073
Charles Emmanuel III was Duke of Savoy, King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard states from 3 September 1730 until his death in 1773. He was the paternal grandfather of the last three mainline Kings of Sardinia.
Artist: Sysang
Date:
Size 9.5 x 15 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2527
Leopold II was Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1824 to 1859. He married twice; firstly Maria Anna of Saxony, and after her death in 1832 Maria Antonia of the Two-Sicilies. By the latter, he had a son, Ferdinand, who later succeeded him.
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Size 24 x 19.5 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:660
After being Imperial envoy in Rome and Madrid, he fought in 1623 under Johann Tserclaes, Count of Tilly on the Rhine and Main and became in 1624 head of the Imperial War Council in Vienna. Made a Field Marshal, he received supreme command of the campaign in Northern Italy against Charles Gonzaga of Nevers during the War of Mantuan Succession. Already very sick, he was not present at the siege and sack of Mantua on 18 July 1630.
Charged of conspiring with Venice, he traveled to Vienna to defend himself, but died on the way in Chur, on 19 November 1630.
Price £28.00
Ref:2633
Elisabetta Visconti, also known as Elisabeth or Elizabeth, was a younger child of Bernabò Visconti and his wife, Beatrice Regina della Scala. Elisabetta was a member of the House of Visconti. wife of Ernst, duke of Bavaria
Size 18 x 26 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:1783
Prince Bishop of Trento. Domenico Antonio was accused of having a greater dedication to the enjoyment of life and revelry than to the spiritual and temporal government of the principality. He was in fact guilty of being a “frequent frequenter of taverns, not averse to excessive familiarity with persons of the opposite sex, a lover of profane discourses and libertine songs, a devoted guest of the Venice carnival, where he went with his court of revealers and freeloaders”
Size 9 x 15 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:175
Ottavio Piccolomini was an Italian nobleman whose military career included service as a Spanish general and then as a field marshal of the Holy Roman Empire
Artist: Sysang
Date:
Size 9 x 13 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2137
Belgiojoso was born to Carlo Barbiano di Belgiojoso and Caterina Visconti. His military career began at an early age under the condottiero Gian Giacomo Trivulzio. He fought at the battle of Ravenna (1512) and the battle of Marignano (1515). Afterwards he moved to France, where he became a chamberlain to Francis I and castellan of Rouvres. In 1521, Belgiojoso fought in the French invasion of Navarre as part of the Italian contingent under Teodoro Trivulzio. In 1522, he took part in the French invasion of Italy.
Artist: Cesare Laurentio
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Size 19 x 28 cms
Price £28.00
Ref:2553