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Born #OnThisDay in 1729: Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst (1729-96) aka Empress #CatherineII of Russia
Portrait by #AlekseyAntropov (1716-95), 1762
#CatherineTheGreat #Екатери́наВели́кая
#Romanov #Ascania
Born #OnThisDay in 1809: German painter #AlbertGräfle (1809-89)
Portrait of #CharlotteofBelgium (1840-1927), Empress of Mexico, 1865
#Gräfle #Graefle #GermanArt
Museo Nacional de Historia, Mexico City
Born #OnThisDay in 1566: Dutch painter #MichielvanMierevelt (1566-1641)
Portrait of an Eighty-Year Old Man, 1624
#Mierevelt #Miereveld #Miereveldt #DutchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1566: Dutch painter #MichielvanMierevelt (1566-1641)
Portrait of Horace Vere, Baron Vere of Tilbury (1565-1635), 1629
#Mierevelt #Miereveld #Miereveldt #DutchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1850: Prince #ArthuroftheUnitedKingdom, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850-1942), son of #QueenVictoria
Portrait by #GeorgeKoberwein (1820-76), 1873
#SaxeCoburgGotha #Windsor
Born #OnThisDay in 1850: Prince #ArthuroftheUnitedKingdom, Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1850-1942), son of #QueenVictoria
Portrait as a child by Franz Xaver #Winterhalter (1805-73), 1852
#SaxeCoburgGotha #Windsor #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1855: American painter #CeciliaBeaux (1855-1942)
Portrait of Dorothea and Francesca (Gilder), 1898
#AmericanArt #WomenArtists #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1855: American painter #CeciliaBeaux (1855-1942)
Portrait of Sarah Allibone Leavitt ("Sita and Sarita"), 1896
#AmericanArt #WomenArtists #CatsInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1829: English artist associated with the #PreRaphaelites #FrederickSandys (1829-1904)
Portrait of Susanna Rose, 1862
#Sandys #BritishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1869: Anglo-Hungarian painter #PhilipdeLászló (1869-1937)
Portrait of Gladys Moore Vanderbilt, Countess Széchenyi (1886-1965), 1921
#LászlóFülöpElek #HungarianArt