Lawyer, legal writer and politician
Artist: Jacobus Houbraken
Size 16 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3069
Lawyer, legal writer and politician
Artist: Jacobus Houbraken
Size 16 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3069
Thomas Sydenham was an English physician. He was the author of Observationes Medicae which became a standard textbook of medicine for two centuries so that he became known as ‘The English Hippocrates’. Among his many achievements was the discovery of a disease, Sydenham’s Chorea, also known as St Vitus Dance.
Artist: Sir Peter Lely
Size 14 x 9 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3067
General James Wolfe led the British attack on Quebec that ended French rule in Canada in 1759. He discovered a steep, unguarded path which enabled him to land his troops unobserved, however, Wolfe would never actually enter the city as he died the following day from his battle wounds. The importance of the conquest and his death, in the hour of victory, made Wolfe the eighteenth-century’s most moving tragic hero.
Artist: unknown
Size 17 x 10 cms
Price £12.00
Ref:3066
Admiral of the fleet
Artist: George Knapton
Size 17 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3065
British statesman, diplomat, man of letters, and an acclaimed wit of his time. He was born in London to Philip Stanhope, 3rd Earl of Chesterfield, and Lady Elizabeth Savile, and known as Lord Stanhope until the death of his father, in 1726.
Artist: William Hoare Size 15 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3064
Statesman and writer
Artist: Sir Godfrey Kneller,
Size 15 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3063
Robert Boyle FRS was an Anglo-Irish natural philosopher, chemist, physicist, and inventor. Boyle is largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method
Artist: William Faithorne
Size 20 x 16 cms
Price £SOLD
Ref:3060
The Irish-born Shee was primarily a portrait painter. He moved to London in 1788 where, after working as an engraver, he enrolled in the Royal Academy Schools in 1790. He was elected a full academician in 1805 An energetic reformer, Shee published Rhymes on Art, or the Remonstrance of a Painter (1800) which called for national support for the arts.
Artist: Sir Martin Archer Shee
Size 19 x 13 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:3058
Francis Bacon, 1st Viscount St Alban, PC QC was an English philosopher and statesman who served as Attorney General and as Lord Chancellor of England. His works are credited with developing the scientific method and remained influential through the scientific revolution. Bacon has been called the father of empiricism.
Artist: Jacobus Houbraken
Size 16 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3059
George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, KG was an English soldier and politician, and a key figure in the Restoration of the monarchy to King Charles II in 1660
Artist: Robert White
Size 16 x 10 cms
Price £10.00
Ref:3062