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Born #OnThisDay in 1610: #FerdinandoIIdeMedici (1610-70), Grand Duke of Tuscany
Equestrian portrait as a boy attributed to #JustusSustermans (1597-1681), ca. 1622
#FerdinandoII #Medici #ChildrenInArt #HorsesInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1602: Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino (1602-61) aka Cardinal #JulesMazarin, chief minister of #LouisXIII & #LouisXIV
Portrait by #PhilippedeChampaigne (1602-74), ca. 1651
#CardinalMazarin #Mazarin
Born #OnThisDay in 1798: #CharlotteofPrussia (1798-1860), Empress of Russia as #AlexandraFeodorovna as spouse of Emperor #NicholasI
Portrait by #ChristinaRobertson (1796-1854), ca. 1850s
#Hohenzollern #Romanov #WomenArtists
Born #OnThisDay in 1798: #CharlotteofPrussia (1798-1860), Empress of Russia as #AlexandraFeodorovna as spouse of Emperor #NicholasI
Portrait by #AlexanderBrullov (1798-1877), ca. 1830
#Hohenzollern #Romanov
Born #OnThisDay in 1733: #CharlesofSaxony (1733-96), Duke of Courland, son of #AugustusIII, King of Poland
Portrait by an Unknown Artist, 18th Century
#Wettin
Born #OnThisDay in 1651: #MargaritaTeresaofSpain (1651-73), Holy Roman Empress as spouse of (her uncle) #LeopoldI, daughter of #PhilipIV
Portrait by #JanThomasvanIeperen (1617-78), 1667-73
#Habsburg #ChildrenInArt
State castle Hrádek u Nechanic
Born #OnThisDay in 1834: American artist #JamesAbbottMcNeillWhistler (1834-1903)
Self-portrait ("Arrangement in Gray"), 1872
#Whistler #AmericanArt #Tonalism
Born #OnThisDay in 1662: #MaximilianIIEmanuel, Elector of Bavaria (1662-1726), governor of the Spanish Netherlands
Portrait after #JosephVivien (1657-1734), after 1710
#Wittelsbach
Born #OnThisDay in 1593: Italian painter #ArtemisiaGentileschi (1593- 1656)
Self-Portrait as Maria Magdalena, ca. 1617-20
#Gentileschi #ItalianBaroque #WomenArtists
Oberösterreichisches Landesmuseum
Died #OnThisDay in 1805: British painter #DanielGardner (1750-1805)
Portraits of Anne Seymour Damer (1749-1828), Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire (1757-1806) & Elizabeth Lamb (1751-1818) as The Three Witches from Macbeth, 1775
#Gardner #BritishArt #Georgian