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“I believe that everyone ought, in duty, to do any good they can.”
The man who saved children: Thomas Coram, English sea captain, philanthropist & founder of London’s Foundling Hospital, world’s first incorporated charity; died #OTD 1751.
@FoundlingMuseum
Sir Joseph Banks, English botanist, naturalist & explorer, born #OTD 1743; President @royalsociety, Director @kewgardens, friend of Alexander von Humboldt, ‘father of Australia’, promoted international cooperation in science; painted by Reynolds in 1773.
@NPGLondon @NMMGreenwich
"I shall go from a corruptible to an incorruptible Crown."
King Charles I, executed at Banqueting House London #OTD 1649.
@RCT @HRP_palaces
Universally acknowledged: Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, published #OTD 1813.
@britishlibrary @tomgauld
“Far from the madding crowd’s ignoble strife...”
Thomas Gray, poet, scholar, born #OTD 1716; author of Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, published 1751, later illustrated by William Blake.
@strawbhillhouse @YaleBritishArt @Cambridge_Uni
“Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”
William Cowper, English poet, author of The Task, born #OTD 1731; admired by Wordsworth, Jane Austen, William Blake.
@NPGLondon @CowpNewtMuseum
Master of the poetic landscape: Thomas Gainsborough, English artist, baptised #OTD 1727.
@ngadc @NationalGallery @GH_Sudbury
Sir Joseph Banks, English botanist, naturalist & explorer, born #OTD 1743; President @royalsociety, Director @kewgardens, friend of Alexander von Humboldt, ‘father of Australia’, promoted international cooperation in science.
@NPGLondon @NMMGreenwich
Niche artist: Gerrit Dou, Dutch Golden Age painter, pupil of Rembrandt, died #OTD 1675; known for polished, small-scale genre scenes in curtained alcoves.
@DulwichGallery / Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien
La Richesse, c. 1640, by Simon Vouet, French painter who introduced the Italian Baroque style to the French Court, born #OTD 1590; master of Le Sueur, Le Brun, Mignard.
@MuseeLouvre