The Battle of Breslau was fought on 22 November 1757 in Breslau during the Third Silesian War. A Prussian army of 28,000 men fought an Austrian army of 60,000 men. The Prussians held off the Austrian attack, losing 6,000 men to the Austrians’ 5,000 men. But one day later the Prussians beat a retreat.
Artist: DORFFMEISTER, István 1777
Size 33 x 25 cms
Price £35.00
Ref: 3043
Hammermeister began his stage career as an opera singer in 1823 at the Schwerin Court Theater . From 1824 to 1828 he was at the Braunschweig Court Theater . In 1828 he went to the then newly formed Hoftheater Leipzig . Here he became known in operas composed by Heinrich Marschner , initially in 1828 in The Vampyr . In Marschner’s opera Der Templer and der Jüdin , premiered in 1829 , Hammermeister sang the Templar, a role that Marschner had written for him. Here Richard Wagner also heard him , who was impressed by him. From 1832 to 1835 he worked at the Royal Opera in Berlin, here too, Marschner’s Templar was performed with him in the leading role. From 1835 to 1840 Hammermeister was engaged at the Hamburg City Theater.
Artist: Kitzeron
Size 36 x 25 cms
Price £28.00
Ref: 3037
Judge of Tunbridge, Kent and St.Johns College Cambridge
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Richard Sawyer 1836 after W.Hollar 1664
Size 29 x 24 cms
Price £18.00
Ref: 3044
Charles the Bold ,Charles le Téméraire, 1433 -1477, baptised Charles Martin, was Duke of Burgundy from 1467 to 1477. He was the last Valois Duke of Burgundy.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: N.Hasitt
Size 30 x 19 cms
Price £28.00
Ref: 3035
Johann Cuyermans (born 1600), Spanish Council of Brabant and Messenger for Peace of Westphalia.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Matthaeus Merian
Size 18 x 13 cms
Price £18.00
Ref: 3034
Wellesley (brother of Wellington) played a vital role in the consolidation of British rule in India during the Regency. In 1793 he became a commissioner of the Board of Control for India and in 1797 was appointed Governor-General of India. He was later a Foreign Secretary and served twice as Viceroy of Ireland.
Subject gender: Male
Artist: Sir Thomas Lawrence
Size 22 x 14 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:1131
Married Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond and half brother of King Henry VI in 1455. Their son Henry was born in Pembroke Castle in 1457, three months after Tudor’s death from the plague.
Subject gender: Female
Artist: W.H.Mote
Size 28 x 18 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:1359x
Wife of Henry VIII, Anne was associated with the King from 1527 and secretly married him in 1533, shortly before Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon was completed. Later in the same year their daughter Princess Elizabeth was born. By 1536 Henry had grown tired of Anne and was still desperate for a male heir and began to doubt the legitimacy of their marriage. That same year Anne was charged with adultery and incest and was executed at the Tower of London.
Subject gender: Female
Artist: H.T.Ryall
Size 28 x 18 cms
Price £20.00
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Born at Wolf Hall, Wiltshire, probably in 1509. She was the sister of Edward Seymour, later Duke of Somerset, and Thomas Seymour, Lord High Admiral. She came to Henry VIII’s notice as a lady-in-waiting, first to Catherine of Aragon and then to Anne Boleyn. Jane married the king in May 1536, less than a fortnight after Anne’s execution, and in October 1537 she fulfilled Henry’s most pressing ambition and gave birth to a son, later to become King Edward VI. Jane died twelve days later and was deeply mourned by Henry, who ordered that he would be buried beside her at Windsor.
Subject gender: Female
Artist: H.Robinson
Size 28 x 18 cms
Price £20.00
Ref:1353x
The daughter of Edward IV, Elizabeth married Henry VII in 1486, thus uniting the Houses of York and Lancaster. She bore him seven children, four of whom survived infancy: Prince Arthur ,Henry VIII , Margaret, Queen of Scotland , and Mary, Queen of France and subsequently Duchess of Suffolk .
Subject gender: Female
Artist: W.Holl
Size 28 x 18 cms
Price £18.00
Ref:1355x