Born #onthisday19833 Edward Burne-Jones English #Pre-Raphaelite #painter & #designer & leading star of new #Aesthetic Movement Helped rejuvenate Britain’s #stainedglass tradition Considered art’s value was as object of impassioned beauty triggering a sensual & romantic response
Born #onthisday1813 Nicaise de Keyser prolific Flemish #painter predominantly of #portraits & #history scenes from important events in Belgium’s history Employed #Baroque composition approach Created 350+ works A key figure in 1st wave of Belgian #Romanticist-historical school …
Born #onthisday1910 Dorothea Tanning American #painter #printmaker #sculptor #writer & #poet Heavily influenced by #Surrealism developed individual style over 60-year career often combining desolate space erotic subjects & enigmatic symbols Painting evolved emerging as less…
Born #onthisday1725 Jean-Baptiste Greuze French #painter mostly #genreworks #portraits & #history 1765 represented creative apogee exhibiting 13 artworks Wrangled with Academy over recognition as historical #artist Achieved extraordinary success but dissipated much of his wealth
Born #onthisday1621 Gerbrand van den Eeckhout Dutch Golden Age #painter Also #etcher & art collector Adopted a signature tinge of green in shadows a gaudi tints & uniform surface Assumed Rembrandt's style so successfully his pictures were often confused with his masters
Born #onthisday1805 Josef Danhauser Austrian #painter & one of the main artists of #Biedermeier period precursor to modern design Works explored moralising subjects Won Vienna Academy prize Later works were influenced by the Dutch School & adopted smaller canvasses
Born #onthisday1923 Larry Rivers American #Popart #painter of New York School musician filmmaker considered by art historians to be #Popart’s "Godfather" & "Grandfather" as one of 1st artists to merge non-objective non-narrative art with narrative & objective abstraction Best …
Born #onthisday1557 Agostino Carracci Italian #artist #printmaker tapestry designer art teacher & a founder of Bologna’s Accademia degli Incamminati which emphasized drawing from life promoted progressive art movement & was a reaction to #Mannerist concept of anatomy & space
Born #onthisday1702 Francesco Zuccarelli RA Italian #Rococo #painter & #etcher Founding member Royal Academy Considered most important #landscape painter to emerge from adopted Venice during mid-18th-century Arcadian works popular throughout Europe Eclipsed by naturalism movement
Born #onthisday1758 Carle Vernet French #painter & #lithographer Won Grand Prix Genre #landscapes hunting scenes races, & lithography proved popular Drawings of Napoleon’s Italian campaign were acclaimed as was his Morning of Austerlitz Awarded Legion of Honour by Napoleon