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Born #OnThisDay in 1626: French aristocrat & writer: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, #marquisedeSévigné (1626-96)
Portrait after Louis Ferdinand Elle the Elder (1612-89), 17th Century
#Sévigné #FrenchLiterature
Born #OnThisDay in 1626: French aristocrat & writer: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, #marquisedeSévigné (1626-96)
Portrait by #ClaudeLefèbvre (1632-75), ca. 1665
#Sévigné #FrenchLiterature
Born #OnThisDay in 1862: Anglo-American artist #JamesJebusaShannon (1862-1923)
Portrait of Lady Barber in a Landscape, 1912
#AmericanArt #BritishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1862: Anglo-American artist #JamesJebusaShannon (1862-1923)
Portrait of #MaryWindsor, Princess Royal (1897-1965), 1914
#AmericanArt #BritishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1761: German-Baltic noble, salonnière and diplomat #DorotheavonMedem (1761-1821), Duchess of Courland
Portrait with daughters Wilhelmine and Pauline by Friedrich Hartmann Barisien (1724-96), before 1783
#DorotheaofCourland #DorotheavonKurland #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1761: German-Baltic noble, salonnière and diplomat #DorotheavonMedem (1761-1821), Duchess of Courland
Portrait by #AngelicaKauffman (1741-1807), 1785
#DorotheaofCourland #DorotheavonKurland #WomenArtists
Born #OnThisDay in 1754: Charles Maurice de #Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838), French politician under #LouisXVI, #Napoleon, #LouisXVIII & #LouisPhilippe
Portrait by Pierre-Paul #Prudhon (1758-1823), 1807
#FrenchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1711: Wenzel Anton, Prince of #Kaunitz-Rietberg (1711-94), Austrian statesman under #Habsburg Emperors #MariaTheresa, #JosephII & #LeopoldII
Portrait by Jean-Étienne #Liotard (1702-89), 1762
#GenevanArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1650: #NellGwyn (1650-1687), mistress of #CharlesII
Portrait attributed to #SimonVerelst (1644-1721), ca. 1670
#Stuart #DutchArt #Baroque
Born #OnThisDay in 1611: #UlrikofDenmark (1611-33), son of King #ChristianIV
Portrait as a child by #JacobvanDoordt (fl. 1606-29), ca. 1615
#Oldenburg #ChildrenInArt #DogsInArt
#RosenborgSlot