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Born #OnThisDay in 1853: Swedish painter #CarlLarsson (1853-1919)
Portrait of Eva Upmark (1852-1944), 1896
#Larsson #SwedishArt
Born #OnThisDay 1759: #WilliamPitt the Younger (1759-1806), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom & Ireland
Portrait by #JohnHoppner (1758-1810), copy of a original of 1804
#Pitt #PitttheYounger #Georgian
Born #OnThisDay in 1652: #ElisabethCharlotteofthePalatine (1652-1722), Duchess of Orléans as spouse of Duke Philippe I
Portrait attributed to #NicolasdeLargillière (1656-1746), ca. 1678
#Lieselotte #PalatineSimmern #Bourbon
Born #OnThisDay in 1626: #WilliamII (1626-50), Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of Holland etc.
Portrait by an Unknown Artist, ca. 1647-50
#WillemII #OrangeNassau
Born #OnThisDay in 1626: #WilliamII (1626-50), Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of Holland etc.
Portrait as a child by Anthony #vanDyck (1599-1641), 1632
#WillemII #OrangeNassau #ChildrenInArt #DogsInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1602: Brussels-born French painter #PhilippedeChampaigne (1602-74)
Portrait of Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal #Richelieu, 1633-40
#Champaigne #FrenchBaroque
Born #OnThisDay in 1602: Brussels-born French painter #PhilippedeChampaigne (1602-74)
Portrait of Jean-Ambroise Duvergier de Hauranne, Abbott of Saint-Cyran (1581-1643)
#Champaigne #FrenchBaroque
Born #OnThisDay in 1867: #MaryofTeck (1867-1953), Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions as spouse of King #GeorgeV
Portrait by #JohnLavery (1856-1941), 1913
#Teck #Windsor #QueenMary
Born #OnThisDay in 1650: English soldier and statesman #JohnChurchill, Duke of Marlborough, Prince of the Holy Roman Empire
Portrait after #GodfreyKneller (1646-1723), ca 1690
#Marlborough #Churchill
Baptised #OnThisDay in 1617: English-Scottish painter #JohnMichaelWright (1617-1694)
Portrait of Sir John Corbet of Adderley, ca. 1676
#EnglishArt #ScottishArt