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Henry VII (1457-1509) by Henry Bone.

Queen Claude of France.

“The only one who is a queen:” Queen Olga of Wurttemberg, née Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia, by Stirnbrand

This portrait depicts a fashionable noblewoman in a black overdress decorated with gold thread and worn over a pale crimson underdress, and on her head an elaborate zazara (headdress).In the room behind her, a maidservant greets three visitors: two fashionable ladies and a nun. The sitter holds a rare and heavy lapis lazuli rosary with gold paternostri (the larger beads) and a devotional image (targa) partially visible at the lower edge of the painting.

King Richard II (1367-1400) by Henry Bone.

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Maria Theresa went on to have sixteen children, and succeeded their father on the throne. Maria Anna died following a difficult childbirth at the age of 26, her daughter and only child was stillborn. Maria Amalia died at the age of 6.

Peter the Great.

Charles VI, Holy Roman Emperor, Johann Gottfried Auerbach, ca. 1730

A portrait of  Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Holy Roman Empress as the wife of Charles VI, done by Johann Gottfried Auerbach.

Frederick, Prince of Wales. By Thomas Hudson.

Gaston-Pierre de Lévis-Mirepoix (1699-1757), Marshal of France. Unknown artist.

Cardinal-Infant Ferdinand (1609-1641) in armour. Unknown artist.

(Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna)

Emperor Charles V (1500-1558), bust portrait as a two-year-old with his sisters Eleonore (1498-1558) and Isabella (1501-1525). Master of the St. George Guild (active around 1500 in Mechelen).

Antonio de Mendoza y Pacheco (Mondéjar, 1490 or 1493 - Lima, 1552) was a Spanish politician and military man, knight of Santiago, commander of Socuéllamos, first viceroy of New Spain, from 1535 to 1550, and second viceroy of Peru, from 1551 to 1552.

When Emperor Maximilian I married Bianca Maria Sforza, the niece of Ludovico il Moro, he sent his court painter Ambrogio de'Predis to Innsbruck in 1493 to have the couple portrayed. This portrait, which is dated 1502, was painted after a study made at that time.