//=time() ?>
Born #OnThisDay in 1825: Grand Duchess #AlexandraofRussia (1825-44), daughter of Tsar #NicholasI
Portrait by #VladimirHau (1816-95), 1840
#AlexandraNikolaevna #АлександраНиколаевна #Romanov
Born #OnThisDay in 1860: #MariadelasMercedesofOrléans (1860-78), Queen of Spain as spouse of King #AlfonsoXII
Portrait by #JoséMaríaRomero y López (1815-80), 1878
#MercedesofOrléans #Bourbon
Born #OnThisDay in 1860: #MariadelasMercedesofOrléans (1860-78), Queen of Spain as spouse of King #AlfonsoXII
Portrait by #ManuelOjeda y Siles (1835-1904), 1878
#MercedesofOrléans #Bourbon
Born #OnThisDay in 1763: #JoséphinedeBeauharnais, née Tascher de La Pagerie, aka #EmpressJoséphine, first wife of #Napoleon
Portrait by #AntoineJeanGros (1771-1835), 1808
#Beauharnais #Bonaparte
Musée Masséna, Nice
Born #OnThisDay in 1894: #EdwardVIII, King of the United Kingdom, later Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (1894-1972)
Portrait in Coronation Robes by #AlbertCollings (1868-1947), 1936
#Windsor
Born #OnThisDay in 1894: #EdwardVIII, King of the United Kingdom, later Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (1894-1972)
Portrait as a child by #WilliamQuillerOrchardson (1832-1910), 1897
#Windsor #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1427: #LucreziaTornabuoni (1427-82), wife of #PierodeMedici, de facto Lord of Florence
Portrait by #DomenicoGhirlandaio (1449-94), ca. 1475
#Tornabuoni #Medici
Executed #OnThisDay in 1535 by order of #HenryVIII : #ThomasMore (1478-1535), English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, Lord High Chancellor of England
Portrait drawing by Hans #Holbein (1497/8-1543), ca. 1526-7
#More #Humanism #Utopia
Executed #OnThisDay in 1535 by order of #HenryVIII : #ThomasMore (1478-1535), English lawyer, social philosopher, author, statesman, Lord High Chancellor of England
Portrait drawing by Hans #Holbein (1497/8-1543), ca. 1526-7
#More #Humanism #Utopia
Executed #OnThisDay in 1535 by order of #HenryVIII : #JohnFisher (1469-1535), English Catholic bishop, cardinal & theologian
Portrait drawing by Hans #Holbein the Younger (1497/8-1543), ca. 1532-4
#BishopFisher #Tudor