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Born #OnThisDay in 1780: French painter Jean-Auguste-Dominique #Ingres (1780-1867)
Portrait drawing of Dr. François Mêlier, 1849
#FrenchArt #Neoclassicism
Born #OnThisDay in 1691: #ElisabethChristineofBrunswickWolfenbüttel (1691-1750), Holy Roman Empress as spouse of Emperor #CharlesVI
Portrait by Jean-Étienne #Liotard (1702-89), after 1740
#Welf #Habsburg
Born #OnThisDay in 1691: #ElisabethChristineofBrunswickWolfenbüttel (1691-1750), Holy Roman Empress as spouse of Emperor #CharlesVI
Portrait by an Unknown Austrian Artist, 18th Century
#Welf #Habsburg
Born #OnThisDay in 1639: #AnnaMariaMancini (1639-1715), first love of #LouisXIV
Portrait with her sisters Olympe (1638-1708) & Hortense (1646-99) by an Unknown artist, ca. 1660s
#MarieMancini #Mancini #Mazarinettes #Bourbon
Born #OnThisDay in 1669: #AnneMariedOrléans (1669-1728), Queen of Sardinia as spouse of #VictorAmadeusII of Savoy
Portrait by an Unknown Artist, ca. 1680s
#Bourbon #BourbonOrléans #Savoy
Born #OnThisDay in 1545: #AlexanderFarnese (1545-92), Duke of Parma, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands
Portrait as a boy by #AntonisMor (1519-75), ca. 1561
#AlessandroFarnese #Farnese
Born #OnThisDay in 1819: #AlbertofSaxeCoburgandGotha (1819-1861), Prince Consort of #QueenVictoria
Portrait by Franz Xaver #Winterhalter (1805-73), 1859
#SaxeCoburgGotha #Hanover
Born #OnThisDay in 1719: French painter #CharlesAmédéePhilippevanLoo (1719-95)
Portrait of Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1750-1811) as Diana
#AmédéeVanLoo #VanLoo #FrenchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1719: French painter #CharlesAmédéePhilippevanLoo (1719-95)
Portrait of #FrederickII, King of Prussia (1712-86), 1763-69
#AmédéeVanLoo #VanLoo #FrenchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1719: French painter #CharlesAmédéePhilippevanLoo (1719-95)
Portrait of Princess #WilhelminaofHesseKassel (1726-1808), 1767
#AmédéeVanLoo #VanLoo #FrenchArt