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Died #OnThisDay in 1681: Dutch painter active in England #GerardSoest (ca. 1600-81)
Portrait of Lady Margaret Hay (ca. 1657-1753), Countess of Roxburghe, ca. 1675
#GilbertSoest #DogsInArt
Died #OnThisDay in 1681: Dutch painter active in England #GerardSoest (ca. 1600-81)
Portrait of William, Lord Russell (1639-1683)
#GilbertSoest
Died #OnThisDay in 1681: Dutch painter active in England #GerardSoest (ca. 1600-81)
Portrait of Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk (1628-1684), ca. 1670-5
#GilbertSoest
Died #OnThisDay in 1681: Dutch painter active in England #GerardSoest (ca. 1600-81)
Portrait of Lord John Hay and Charles, Master of Yester (later third Marquis of Tweeddale), 1673
#GilbertSoest #ChildrenInArt #DogsInArt #BirdsInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1890: Russian writer #BorisPasternak (1890-1960)
Portrait drawing by his father #LeonidPasternak (1862-1945), 1919
#Pasternak #Пастерна́к #RussianLiterature
Born #OnThisDay in 1812: English writer #CharlesDickens (1812-70)
Portrait drawing by #SamuelLaurence (1812-84), 1838
#Dickens #EnglishLiterature #Victorian
Born #OnThisDay in 1665: #AnneI (1665-1714), Queen of Great Britain
Portrait by #MichaelDahl (1659-1743), ca 1702
#QueenAnne #Stuart
Born #OnThisDay in 1617: Southern Netherlandish painter #JanThomasvanIeperen (1617-73)
Portrait of Holy Roman Empress #MargaritaTeresaofSpain (1651-73) in allegorical costume, 1667-73
#SouthernNetherlandishArt
State castle Hrádek u Nechanic
Born #OnThisDay in 1617: Southern Netherlandish painter #JanThomasvanIeperen (1617-73)
Portrait of Gundakar, Prince of Dietrichstein (1623-90), ca. 1667
#SouthernNetherlandishArt #HorsesInArt
Born #OnThisDay in French aristocrat & writer #MariedeRabutinChantal (1626-96), marquise de Sévigné
Portrait by an Unknown Artist, 17th Century
#MadamedeSévigné #FrenchLiterature