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2/2 Home! Shipping near Antwerp in 1833, as painted by J.M.W Turner. He was born on this day in 1775.
2/2 Peace: burial at sea. By J.M.W. Turner (born OTD in 1775) commemorating the burial of his friend & colleague, artist David Wilkie, who died on the way home from Jerusalem in 1841.
3/3 Agneta Block was a patron of naturalist/artist Maria Sibylla Merian, who recorded this pineapple w/ exciting cockroaches in her Insects of Surinam, 1705.
2/2 First pineapple grown in continental Europe was produced by Agneta Block at her estate Vijverhof. It's there in the left corner of her portrait by Jan Weenix from 1694.
3/3 Hendrick Danckerts, artist of the day, imagines a grand classical garden with large ancient things and tiny little figures. And a dog.
2/2 Some very vigorous fountains in this Italianate garden painted by Hendrick Danckerts, whose day is today.
2/2 Girl. Fish. Cat. What do you suppose story was there? By Jacob Cuyp, whose day is today.
2/2 Two children with their pet livestock by Jacob Cuyp; cattle in Italianate landscape behind by his son Aelbert Cuyp.
2/2 Entire court of the Egyptian princess has turned out to see baby Moses, found among the bullrushes. As imagined in 1580 by Paolo Veronese, whose day is today.