Born #onthisday1642 Jan Peeters Flemish #Baroque #painter & #draughtsman Best known for masterful #seascapes frequently depicting atmospheric stormy seas & catastrophic shipwrecks + his topographical drawings Also painted #cityscapes architectural #landscapes & some #portraits
… Signature works inc: Rome From Mount Aventine (1835) The Burning of the Houses of Lords & Commons (1835) The Dort packet-boat from Rotterdam becalmed (1818) Typhon coming on (1840) The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up (1839)
Born #onthisday1452 Leonardo da Vinci #artoftheday genius #painter #sculptor #architect inventor military engineer #draughtsman & Italian Renaissance intellectual renowned for sublime The Last Supper & Mona Lisa epitomised Renaissance man studied laws of science & nature
Born #onthisday1916 Dr. S.M. Pandit Indian #Realist school #painter & one of most popular #artists of his time Topics varied from classical Indian literature & contemporary cinema Infused rare blend of artistic virtuosity & Bollywood glamour in portrayal of romantic characters
Born #onthisday1908 Jean Bellette Australian #Modernist #artist Frequently painted scenes influenced by Greek tragedies of Sophocles & Euripides & Homer’s epics Only woman to have won 2x Sulman Prize For Whom the Bell Tolls (1942) & Iphigenia in Tauris (1944)
Born #onthisday1728 Anton Raphael Mengs German Bohemian #Rococo style #painter in mid-18th century emerged as one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting which replaced Rococo as Europe’s dominant style of painting Produced some of best work for Charles III of Spain
Born #onthisday1906 Ivor Pengelly Francis AM Australian #artist #Artcritic teacher Labelled South Australia's foremost #Surrealist #painter Known 4 #Abstractart #landscapes similarly much-admired Art critic for The News & early member of South Australia’s Contemporary Art Society
Born #onthisday1863 Joaquín Sorolla king of the Spanish Sun for his dexterous representation of #portraitist & #landscape & monumental works with social & historical themes under Spain’s iconic bright sunlight & sunlit water won Medal of Honour 1900 Paris Universal Exposition
Born #onthisday1743 Joseph Banks GCB PRS English botanist naturalist #artist #illustrator Made name on 1766 natural-history Newfoundland & Labrador expedition Accompanied Captain Cook on board the Endeavour 1st great voyage of discovery (1768–1771)
Born#onthisday1877 Else Berg German born Dutch #painter of Bergense School Studies in Antwerp Berlin & Paris Became part of Antwerp #ModernArt movement Took up #Cubism in Mallorca after staying with Leo Gestel Betrayed to Gestapo & later murdered in Auschwitz