Born #onthisday1968 Ken Akamatsu Tokyo-born Japanese Manga #artist Became famous as an illustrator at the Comiket convention while still in college Won Weekly Shonen Magazine award twice After major hit with A.I. Love You enjoyed significant success with his manga Love Hina
Born #onthisday1738 John Singleton Copley RA #historyofart American #portrait #painter renowned for painting portraits of colonial American & English luminaries particularly middle-class figures Portraits innovated by including artifacts reflecting his subject’s lives Produced...
Born #onthisday1896 Lydia Mei Estonian #artist specializing in #watercolours & #stilllifes achieving public recognition for her work during New Objectivity period of Estonian art of the 1920s after studying architecture at Petrograd Women's Polytechnic Institute until 1918
Born #onthisday1789 Horace Vernet French #painter specializing in battle scenes & Orientalist subjects Disdained academic French art preferring contemporary life subjects Represented French soldiers in a less idealised style Recognised for his battle paintings for duc d'Orleans
Born #onthisday1940 Ken Done Australian #artist best-known for his prodigious design output Simple brightly coloured images of Australian landmarks & animals adorn an immensely popular clothing & homewares range sold under "Done Design" brand Done's primary focus is as a #painter
Born #onthisday1892 Paul Colin one of France’s greatest poster #artists Made name in 1925 with his Revue Negre poster launching his mistress Josephine Baker’s career Worked for forty+ years in theatre creating promotional posters numerous sets & costumes
Born #onthisday1882 Rockwell Kent American #painter #printmaker #illustrator & adventurer Early American #modernist Inspired by austerity & stark beauty of wilderness Series of evocative #landscapes & #seascapes convey the Symbolist spirit of the wonders of the natural world
Born #onthisday1785 John James Audebon #artoftheday pioneering American ornithologist naturalist & #painter renowned for his detailed illustrations of American birds in their natural habitats in his landmark The Birds of America 1 of finest ornithological works ever completed
Born #onthisday1881 Max Weber Jewish-American #painter & one of first American #Cubist painters Praised as "pioneer of modern art in America" in 1945 Life magazine article Later life turned to more figurative #Expressionist depictions of Jewish families rabbis & Talmudic scholars
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 …