Tag Archives: Spanish

Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand 1609-1641

Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand (also known as Don Fernando de Austria, Cardenal-Infante Fernando de España and as Ferdinand von Österreich; May) was a Spanish and Portuguese prince (Infante of Spain, Infante of Portugal (until 1640)), Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Cardinal of the Holy Catholic Church, Archduke of Austria, Archbishop of Toledo (1619–41), and a general during the Thirty Years’ War, the Eighty Years’ War, and the Franco-Spanish War. He is largely considered to be the best Spanish general of the time with some contemporary sources claiming him to be the last great general of the Spanish Empire. He is as well, one of few generals to be undefeated on the battlefield.
Size 18 x 28.5 cms
Price £28.00

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Cardinal Infante Don Ferdinand of Austria, 1609-1641.

Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand (also known as Don Fernando de Austria, Cardenal-Infante Fernando de España and as Ferdinand von Österreich; May 1609 or 1610[1] – 9 November 1641) was a Spanish and Portuguese prince (Infante of Spain, Infante of Portugal (until 1640)), Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Cardinal of the Holy Catholic Church, Archduke of Austria, Archbishop of Toledo (1619–41), and a general during the Thirty Years’ War, the Eighty Years’ War, and the Franco-Spanish War.
Size 17 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

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Margaret of Parma 1522-1586

Margaret of Parma was Governor of the Netherlands from 1559 to 1567 and from 1578 to 1582. She was the illegitimate daughter of the then 22-year-old Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Johanna Maria van der Gheynst. She was a Duchess of Florence and a Duchess of Parma and Piacenza by marriage.
Size 8 x 14 cms
Price £14.00

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Maria Anna of Spain 1606-1646

Maria Anna of Spain was a Holy Roman Empress and Queen of Hungary and Bohemia by marriage to Ferdinand III, Holy Roman Emperor. She acted as regent on several occasions during the absences of her spouse.
Size 10.5 x 14 cms
Price £28.00

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Catherine Michelle of Austria, Duchess of Savoy

Catherine Michelle of Spain, the youngest surviving daughter of Philip II of Spain and Elisabeth of Valois, and Duchess of Savoy as wife of Charles Emmanuel I, Duke of Savoy
Size 16.5 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

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Francisco de Orozco y Ribera 1605-1668

Son of Rodrigo de Orozco, lord of Leveche and Cerniago, who went to Italy with the army of the Count of Fuentes at the beginning of the 17th century, and who received the title of Marquis of Mortara from Philip III. His mother was Victoria de Portia, daughter of the Count of Portia. He married Isabel Manrique de Lara, and they had as a son Juan Antonio de Orozco and Manrique de Lara, who succeeded him.
Artist: Simone Durello
Date:1668
Size 15 x 24 cms
Price £28.00

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Ferdinand Gonzaga, Duke of Mantua 1587-1626

Born in Mantua, he was the son of Vincenzo I and Eleonora de’ Medici.
Succeeded his brother in both the Duchy of Mantua and the Duchy of Montferrat. In 1616 he secretly married Camilla Faà di Bruno, whom he divorced in the same year. Their son Francesco Giacinto Teodoro Giovanni Gonzaga, although accepted at court, was not made Ferdinando’s heir. He died of the plague at the age of 14, during the 1630 siege of Mantua. On 16 February 1617 Ferdinando married Caterina de’ Medici (1593–1629), the daughter of Ferdinand I, Grand Duke of Tuscany.
Size 16 x 28 cms
Price £28.00

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General Riego 1784-1823

Rafael del Riego y Flórez was a Spanish general and liberal politician, who played a key role in the establishment of the Liberal Triennium.
Size 10 x 17 cms
Price £28.00

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Phillip IV, King of Spain 1605-1665

Philip IV, also called the Planet King, was King of Spain from 1621 to his death and King of Portugal from 1621 to 1640. Philip is remembered for his patronage of the arts, including such artists as Diego Velázquez, and his rule over Spain during the Thirty Years’ War.
Size 8 x 13.5 cms
Price £14.00

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