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Born #OnThisDay in 1593: Italian painter #ArtemisiaGentileschi (1593- 1656)
Self-Portrait as Maria Magdalena, ca. 1617-20
#Gentileschi #ItalianBaroque #WomenArtists
Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum
Born #OnThisDay 1577: Southern Netherlandish painter #PeterPaulRubens (1577-1640)
Self-portrait, ca. 1618
#Rubens #SouthernNetherlandishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1695: Dutch-Swedish painter #MartinvanMeytens (1695-1770), active at the Royal Court of Austria
Portrait of Birgitta Christina Sparre, Ulrika Lovisa Tessin and Carl Gustaf Tessin, 1736
#Meytens
Born #OnThisDay in 1695: Dutch-Swedish painter #MartinvanMeytens (1695-1770), active at the Royal Court of Austria
Portrait of Bernhard Otto von Rehbinder
#Meytens
Buried #OnThisDay in 1657: Dutch painter #JanvanRavesteyn (ca. 1572-1657)
Portrait of a Girl from the Van Paffenrode Family, 1629
#Ravesteyn #DutchBaroque #ChildrenInArt
Buried #OnThisDay in 1657: Dutch painter #JanvanRavesteyn (ca. 1572-1657)
Portrait of #HugoGrotius (1583-1645), 1599
#Ravesteyn #DutchBaroque
Baptized #OnThisDay in 1599: Spanish painter #DiegoVelázquez (1599-1660)
Portrait of Gaspar de Guzmán, Count-Duke of Olivares (1587-1645) on horseback, ca. 1636
#Velázquez #SpanishBaroque
Born #OnThisDay in 1630: #CharlesII of England, Scotland & Ireland (1630-85)
Portrait by #JohnMichaelWright (1617-94), ca. 1660-5
#Stuart #Restoration
Died #OnThisDay 1510: Italian painter Alessandro di Mariano di Vanni Filipepi (c.1445-1510) aka #SandroBotticelli
Portrait of a Young Man, possibly Giuliano de' Medici, 1465-70
#Botticelli #ItalianRenaissance
Baptised #OnThisDay in 1727: English painter #ThomasGainsborough (1727-88)
Portrait of Miss Catherine Tatton, 1786
#Gainsborough #BritishArt #Georgian