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Born #OnThisDay in 1815: Spanish painter #FedericoMadrazo (Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz) (1815-94)
Portrait by #RaimundoMadrazo y Garreta (1841-1920), 1875
#SpanishArt
Died #OnThisDay in 1612: #VincenzoGonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1562-1612)
Portrait by Frans #Pourbus the Younger (ca.1569-1622), ca. 1605-8
#Gonzaga #SouthernNetherlandishArt #FransPourbus
#GalleriaRizzi
Born #OnThisDay in 1876: German painter Paula #ModersohnBecker (1876-1907)
Self-portrait on the 6th wedding anniversary, 1906
#WomenArtists #GermanArt #Expressionism
Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum
Born #OnThisDay in 1772: French-born Belgian portrait miniature painter Louis-Marie #Autissier (1772-1830)
Self-portrait, 1817
#FrenchArt #BelgianArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1622: #VittoriadellaRovere (1622-94), Grand Duchess of Tuscany as wife of #FerdinandoIIdeMedici
Portrait with husband by Justus #Sustermans (1597-1681), ca. 1660s
#DellaRovere #Medici
Born #OnThisDay in 1812: English writer #CharlesDickens (1812-70)
Portrait drawing by Samuel Laurence (1812-84), 1838
#Dickens #EnglishLiterature #Victorian
Born #OnThisDay in 1665: #QueenAnne of Great Britain (1665-1714)
Portrait by #MichaelDahl (1659-1743), ca 1702
#Stuart #SwedishArt #EnglishArt
Died #OnThisDay in 1579: Italian painter Giovanni Battista #Moroni (ca. 1520/4-79)
Portrait of a Lady, possibly Contessa Lucia Albani Avogadro ("La Dama in Rosso"), 1556-60
#ItalianRenaissance
Died #OnThisDay in 1579: Italian painter Giovanni Battista #Moroni (ca. 1520/4-79)
Portrait of Gian Gerolamo Grumelli, 1560
#ItalianRenaissance
Born #OnThisDay in 1617: Southern Netherlandish painter #JanThomas van Ieperen (1617-73)
Portrait of Gundakar, Prince of Dietrichstein (1623-1690) on horseback in a ballet costume, ca. 1667
#SouthernNetherlandishArt #Baroque