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Brune, General & Chef des Armées Francoise et Batave dans la Republique Batave dans la République Batave.
Peint d'après nature par C.H.Hodges et Gravé par le meme.
Amsterdam, chez C.H. Hodges, sur le Keisersgragt & E. Maaskamp, dans le Kalverstraat. a Paris, chez A. Hulk, Rue Jacques, entre les rues du Platre et des Noyers, No. 22.
Very rare mezzotint. 470 x 340mm (18½ x 13½"), large margins. Faint spotting.
Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune (1764-1815), 1st Count Brune. A political journalist, he joined the National Guard on the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. In 1793 he was appointed brigadier general, serving under Napoleon in the Italian campaign of 1796. In 1798 he commanded the army that occupied Switzerland and established the Helvetis Republic. The following year, he successfully defended Amsterdam during the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland, when this portrait was painted. After Waterloo he was shot and killed by an angry Royalist mob in Avignon and his body thrown into the Rhone, although it was later recovered by his family and given a proper burial. The artist, Charles Howard Hodges (1764-1837) was a pupil of John Raphael Smith. He moved to The Hague in 1794 and to Amsterdam in 1797, where this plate was published and where he spent the rest of his life.
[Ref: 59422] £360.00
Peint d'après nature par C.H.Hodges et Gravé par le meme.
Amsterdam, chez C.H. Hodges, sur le Keisersgragt & E. Maaskamp, dans le Kalverstraat. a Paris, chez A. Hulk, Rue Jacques, entre les rues du Platre et des Noyers, No. 22.
Very rare mezzotint. 470 x 340mm (18½ x 13½"), large margins. Faint spotting.
Guillaume Marie-Anne Brune (1764-1815), 1st Count Brune. A political journalist, he joined the National Guard on the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. In 1793 he was appointed brigadier general, serving under Napoleon in the Italian campaign of 1796. In 1798 he commanded the army that occupied Switzerland and established the Helvetis Republic. The following year, he successfully defended Amsterdam during the Anglo-Russian invasion of Holland, when this portrait was painted. After Waterloo he was shot and killed by an angry Royalist mob in Avignon and his body thrown into the Rhone, although it was later recovered by his family and given a proper burial. The artist, Charles Howard Hodges (1764-1837) was a pupil of John Raphael Smith. He moved to The Hague in 1794 and to Amsterdam in 1797, where this plate was published and where he spent the rest of his life.
[Ref: 59422] £360.00
![[France.] Général Pichegru.](jpegs/33011.jpg)
[France.] Général Pichegru.
C.H. Hodges, ad vivum Pinxit et Fecit.
J. Allart Excudit 1795.
Very rare mezzotint. 420 x 305mm (16½ x 12"), with large margins. Repaired tear in left edge, crease in top left corner.
Jean-Charles Pichegru (1761-1804), a French soldier who briefly served in the American Revolutionary War, and rose through the ranks to become commander-in-chief of Revolutionary France's army of the Rhine-and-Moselle. Under his leadership Belgium and the Netherlands were overrun. However, despite coming from peasant stock, he was suspected of conspiring against the Directory in 1795 and fell from grace. In 1797 he planned the Coup of 18 Fructidor, but was arrested and deported to Cayenne. In 1803 he tried to start a Royalist uprising against Napoleon Bonaparte, but was betrayed, arrested and strangled in his prison cell.
[Ref: 33011] £380.00
C.H. Hodges, ad vivum Pinxit et Fecit.
J. Allart Excudit 1795.
Very rare mezzotint. 420 x 305mm (16½ x 12"), with large margins. Repaired tear in left edge, crease in top left corner.
Jean-Charles Pichegru (1761-1804), a French soldier who briefly served in the American Revolutionary War, and rose through the ranks to become commander-in-chief of Revolutionary France's army of the Rhine-and-Moselle. Under his leadership Belgium and the Netherlands were overrun. However, despite coming from peasant stock, he was suspected of conspiring against the Directory in 1795 and fell from grace. In 1797 he planned the Coup of 18 Fructidor, but was arrested and deported to Cayenne. In 1803 he tried to start a Royalist uprising against Napoleon Bonaparte, but was betrayed, arrested and strangled in his prison cell.
[Ref: 33011] £380.00
His Serene Highness, William V, Prince of Orange and Nassau, etc. [&] Her Royal Highness Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina, Princess of Orange and Nassau, etc.
Painted & Engraved by H.G Does.
London, Published June 12. 1799 by A. Milne Tottenham court road.
A pair of mezzotints, 18th century watermark, 465 x 340mm (18¼ x 13½"), with very large margins. Repaired tear going into the image slightly in Frederica at top.
Half length portraits in ovals of William V, Prince of Orange (1748-1806), and Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751-1820). They married on 4th October 1767.
[Ref: 60428] £520.00 view all images for this item
Painted & Engraved by H.G Does.
London, Published June 12. 1799 by A. Milne Tottenham court road.
A pair of mezzotints, 18th century watermark, 465 x 340mm (18¼ x 13½"), with very large margins. Repaired tear going into the image slightly in Frederica at top.
Half length portraits in ovals of William V, Prince of Orange (1748-1806), and Frederica Sophia Wilhelmina of Prussia (1751-1820). They married on 4th October 1767.
[Ref: 60428] £520.00 view all images for this item