Tag Archives: Portrait

George, Baron von Arnheim 1581-164

Arnheim, or Arnim, George, Baron von, born in 1581. A distinguished general and politician who took part in the Thirty Years’ War, serving successively under Gustavus Adolphus, Wallenstein, and the Elector of Saxony. After gaining the decisive victory of Liegnitz (1634) he retired to his estates, but was seized and imprisoned by the King of Sweden; he escaped, but died soon after. Died, 1641

Subject gender: Male
Artist:

Size 15 x 11 cms

Price £18.00

Ref: 3038

Henry Hammermeister 1799-1860

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

Robert Heath 1575-1649

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 1433-1477

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

Johan Cuyermans

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

Richard Colley Wellesley Marquess Wellesley 1760-1842

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

Lady Margaret Beaufort 1443-1509 Mother of Henry VII

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

 

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Anne Boleyn 1500-1536 Second Queen of Henry VIII

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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Jane Seymour 1509-1537 Third Queen of Henry VIII

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

 

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