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Born #OnThisDay in 1832: French painter Édouard #Manet (1832-83)
Self-portrait, 1879
#FrenchArt #Impressionism
Steven A. Cohen collection Greenwich, Connecticut
Born #OnThisDay in 1716: German painter active in Russia #GeorgChristophGrooth (1716-49)
Portrait of Empress Elisabeth of Russia (1709-62)
#Grooth #Гроо́т
Born #OnThisDay in 1845: Norwegian painter #HarrietBacker (1845-1932)
Portrait of Vedastine Aubert, ca. 1910
#WomenArtists #NorwegianArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1716: #CharlesIII, King of Spain (1716-88)
Portrait byMariano Salvador #Maella (1739-1819) after Anton Raphael #Mengs (1728-79), ca. 1783-4
#CarlosIII #Bourbon
Died #OnThisDay in 1636: Netherlandish painter active in England Marcus #Gheeraerts the Younger (ca. 1561/2-1636)
Portrait of Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland (d. 1633), 1603
#Gerards #Geerards #Elizabethan
Died #OnThisDay in 1636: Netherlandish painter active in England Marcus #Gheeraerts the Younger (ca. 1561/2-1636)
Portrait of Mary Rogers, Lady Harington (1565-ca.1634), 1592
#Gerards #Geerards #Elizabethan
Born #OnThisDay in 1839: French Post-Impressionist painter Paul #Cézanne (1839-1906)
Self-portrait, 1881-2
#FrenchArt #PostImpressionism
Born #OnThisDay in 1795: #AnnaPavlovnaofRussia (1795-1865), Queen of the Netherlands as spouse of King #WillemII, daughter of Emperor #PavelI
Portrait by Jan Baptist van der Hulst (1790-1862), 1841
#Romanov #OrangeNassau
Born #OnThisDay in 1732: #StanisławAugustPoniatowski, King of Poland as #StanisławIIAugustus (1732-98), lover of Empress #CatherineTheGreat
Portrait by Marcello #Bacciarelli (1731-1818), 1793
#Poniatowski
Born #OnThisDay in 1706: American Founding Father #BenjaminFranklin (1706-90)
Portrait by Joseph #Duplessis (1725-1802), ca. 1785
#FoundingFathers #FrenchArt