Ruler bestowing nobility posters & prints

Cornelis Tromp knighted by the King of Denmark Jacob van Beverwijk

Portrait of Empress Catherine II, 1794 Johann-Baptist von Lampi the Elder

The Four Conditions of Society: Nobility Jean Bourdichon

Probably a portrait of Rana Raj Singh of Udaipur offering pan to a nobleman, 1820 Indian School

A Polish Nobleman, 1637 Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn

The end of the Tatar-Mongol yoke in Russia. 1480 (From Illustrated Karamzin), 1836 Boris Artemyevich Chorikov

Nobile Antica Cesare Vecellio

Nobles before King Richard II James William Edmund Doyle

First Ennoblement of the Knights of the Order of Saint-Louis by Louis XIV in Versailles on 8 May 169 François Marot

Prince Otto von Bismarck in Friedrichsruh German School

A Pair of Family Portraits, 1598 Gortzius Geldorp

Lord of Beaujeu French School

William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland, c.1758 Joshua Reynolds

Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, Duke of Richmond and Gordon Cassell

Portrait of a noblewoman, c.1550 English School

Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk, 1677 Peter Lely

Henry Manners, 2nd Earl of Rutland, c.1675 Jeremias van der Eyden

The Hon. Anne Fane, c.1782 Thomas Gainsborough

A Lady called Teresia Lady Shirley John Hoskins

Mona Lisa, c.1503-6 Leonardo da Vinci

Portrait of a Nobleman, 1544 Bartholomaeus the Elder Bruyn

Françoise dAubigné, Marquise de Maintenon, ca 1694 Pierre Mignard

The Duke of Aiguillon French School

Portrait of Thomas Howard, 1539 Hans Holbein the Younger

Kurt Christoph Graf von Schwerin on horseback, 1750 Antoine Pesne

Portrait of a lady, 1620 Jan Anthonisz. van Ravesteyn

Portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh, 1595 Marcus the Younger (manner of) Gheeraerts

Boyar, 1911 Ivan Andreyevich Pelevin

Detail of portrait of William Cavendish, 1624 Daniel Mytens

The Hon. William Fitzwilliam, brother of VIth Viscount, c.1775 Thomas Gainsborough

English noblewomen Edward May

Contemplations upon a coronet Anonymous

The Levee of King Louis XV French School

Catherine Killigrew, Lady Jermyn, 1614 Marcus Gheeraerts

Prince William German School

Portrait of a Nobleman's Wife Edmund Ashfield