Traveller, professor of minerolgy Cambridge University
Subject gender: Male
Artist: John Opie
Size 18 x 12 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3048
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John Hampden 1594-1643 Statesman
One of the central figures at the start of the English Revolution. He entered Parliament as an MP in 1621, eight years before Charles I dissolved Parliament. Ship Money was a tax sometimes levied on coastal towns in wartime to pay for ships to protect the country from invasion. Charles, no longer receiving money from Parliament, in 1635 extended the Ship Money tax to include inland towns and counties. This attempt to create a new form of taxation without parliamentary sanction was resisted by Hampden, who refused to pay the levy. The king was unable to collect Ship Money, and was forced to recall Parliament in 1640. Hampden was one of the five MPs selected by Charles I for impeachment in 1642.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Robert Walker
Size 20 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3051
Charles Phillips 1787-1859
Barrister, was born at Sligo, in Ireland
Subject gender: Male
Artist: S.Drummond
Size 20 x 13 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3052
John Gay 1685-1732 poet and dramatist
Poet and dramatist, best remembered for his hugely successful dramatic satire The Beggar’s Opera . Along with his friend Alexander Pope. Gay was a member of the Scriblerus Club, a group of like-minded men who exposed and attacked ignorance and pretentiousness in literature. Johnson did not rate Gay’s poetry highly but credited him with the invention of the ballad opera.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: William Aikman
Size 16 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3054
LOUIS PHILIPPE COMTE DE SEGUR 1753-1830
French diplomat and historian, son of Philippe Henri, marquis de Segur, was born in Paris in December 1753. He entered the army in 1769, served in the American War of Independence in 1781 as a colonel under Rochambeau
Subject gender: Male
Artist:
Size 14 x 11 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3046
Sarah Churchill (née Jenyns)
Duchess of Marlborough 1660-1744 Politician and courtier
Subject gender: Female
Artist: Kneller
Size 15 x 9 cms
Price £14.00
Ref:3047
Andreas Teuffel, Freiherr von Gundersdorf 1522-1592
Subject gender: Male
Artist:
Size 30 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref: 3040
Victor I, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym
German prince of the House of Ascania who belonged to a cadet branch of the princely house of Anhalt-Bernburg. Through his mother, he inherited the County of Holzappel and Lordship of Schaumburg and founded the cadet branch of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Syang
Size 30 x 18 cms
Price £28.00
Ref: 3042
Count Heinrich Mathias of Thurn-Valsassina 1567-1633
Oposed the election of Ferdinand as H.R.E. Ferdinand responded trying to oust Thurn as Burggraf, within the framework of other anti-Protestant measures. Thurn then incited the Bohemians to rebel, this led to the defenestration of Prague 1618 Subject gender: Male
Artist:
Size 20 x 12 cms
Price £18.00
Ref: 3045
Martin Luther 1483-1546
Martin Luther OSA was a German monk, Catholic priest, professor of theology and seminal figure of a reform movement in 16th century Christianity, subsequently known as the Protestant Reformation.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Stobert
Size 15 x 24 cms
Price £18.00
Ref: 3036