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Born #OnThisDay in 1599: #OliverCromwell (1599-1658), #LordProtector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland
Miniature portrait by #SamuelCooper (1609-72), 1656
#Cromwell
Born #OnThisDay in 1608: #GastonofFrance, Duke of Orléans (1608-60), son of King #HenriIV & #MariadeMedici
Portrait by #AnthonyvanDyck (1599-1641), 1632-4
#Bourbon
Born #OnThisDay in 1724: German philosopher #ImmanuelKant (1724-1804)
Portrait by Gottlieb Doebler, 1791
#Kant #Enlightenment #Kantianism
Born #OnThisDay in 1926: #ElizabethII, Queen of the United Kingdom
Portrait by #PietroAnnigoni (1910-88), 1969
#Windsor
Born #OnThisDay in 1815: #LouiseRasmussen, Countess Danner (1815-74), mistress and later the morganatic spouse of King #FrederickVII of Denmark
Portrait by #DavidMonies (1812-94), 1850
#Oldenburg
#Jægersprisslot
Born #OnThisDay in 1815: #LouiseRasmussen, Countess Danner (1815-74), mistress and later the morganatic spouse of King #FrederickVII of Denmark
Portrait by #EdwardYoung (1823-82), 1853
#Oldenburg
#Frederiksborg
Born #OnThisDay in 1767: Elisabeth of Württemberg (1767-90), Archduchess of Austria by marriage to the later Emperor #FrancisII
Portrait by Johann Baptist von #Lampi the Elder (1751-1830), 1785
#Württemberg #Habsburg
Born #OnThisDay in 1816: English novelist and poet #CharlotteBrontë (1816-55)
Portrait with sisters Anne (1820-49) & Emily (1818-48) by brother Patrick Branwell Brontë (1817-1848), ca. 1834
#Brontë #EnglishLiterature #SiblingsInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1673: Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1673-1742), Holy Roman Empress as the spouse of #JosephI
Portrait by #RosalbaCarriera (1675-1757), 1730
#Hanover #Habsburg
Born #OnThisDay in 1793: #FerdinandI, Emperor of Austria (1793-1875)
Portrait as a boy by #HeinrichFüger (1751-1818), 1804
#Habsburg #ChildrenInArt