Tag Archives: Spanish

Don Juan of Austria 1547-1578

 

Spanish admiral and governor, known to Elizabethans as Don John. Born in Regensburg, Germany, to commoner Barbara Blomberg, Don Juan, the natural son of Emperor Charles V, was brought to Brussels, where his mother married. In 1550 Charles had the boy, called Jeromín, taken to Spain by a servant couple, and then, in 1554, transferred to the castle of his chief of household, Don Luis de Quijada, and his wife, Doña Magdalena de Ulloa, at Villagarcía de Campos.

Artist/Engraver Jacob Matham (extensive text verso)
Size 28 x 18 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:3659

Eleonora Gonzaga. Duchess of Mantua 1630-1686

Eleonora Gonzaga was by birth Princess of Mantua, Nevers and Rethel from the Nevers branch of the House of Gonzaga and was Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen consort of Hungary and Bohemia by marriage to Emperor Ferdinand III.
Artist: A.Bloem
Date:
Size 12 x 18 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:1911

Eleonora Gonzaga 1598-1655

Eleonora Gonzaga was born a princess of Mantua as a member of the House of Gonzaga, and by marriage to Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor, was Holy Roman Empress, German Queen, Queen of Hungary and Bohemia. Nicknamed the Elder (German: Ältere) to distinguish herself from her namesake great-niece, during her tenure, the Imperial court in Vienna became one of the centers of European Baroque music. As empress, Eleanora was a supporter of the Counter-Reformation.
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2913

Claude Lamoral, 3rd Prince of Ligne 1618-1679

Claude Lamoral, 3rd Prince of Ligne, Prince of Epinoy, Marquis of Roubaix and Count of Fauquemberg, was a nobleman from the Spanish Netherlands, a soldier and diplomat in the service of Philip IV of Spain and Charles II of Spain.
Size 16 x 23 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:948

Maria Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain 1635-1696

Queen of Spain from 1649 until the death of her husband Philip IV in 1665. She was appointed Queen Regent for their three year old son Carlos II and owing to his ill health, remained an influential figure until her own death in 1696.
Date:
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2918

Archduke Ernest of Austria 1553-1595

Son of Maximillian II, Holy Roman Emperor, and Maria of Spain; brother of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor. Educated in the court of Spain. Governor of Austria from 1576. Knight of the Golden Fleece. From 1594-1595 served as Governor of Spanish Netherlands.

Artist/Engraver Hoef
Size 18 x 19 cms
Price £18.00

Ref:3665

Don Juan of Austria 1547-1578

Spanish admiral and governor, known to Elizabethans as Don John. Born in Regensburg, Germany, to commoner Barbara Blomberg, Don Juan, the natural son of Emperor Charles V, was brought to Brussels, where his mother married. In 1550 Charles had the boy, called Jeromín, taken to Spain by a servant couple, and then, in 1554, transferred to the castle of his chief of household, Don Luis de Quijada, and his wife, Doña Magdalena de Ulloa, at Villagarcía de Campos.

Artist/Engraver
Size 20 x 16 cms
Price £18.00

Ref:3656

Carlos II, King of Spain 1661-1700

Charles II was the last of the Habsburg dynasty to rule Spain. Known as ‘the Bewitched’ he suffered from physical and intellectual disabilities cause by generations of inbreeding and was regarded as a weak and ineffectual ruler.
Date:1683
Size 16.5 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

Ref:2559