Born #onthisday1881 Leo Gestel Dutch #painter experimented widely with influences spanning #cubism #expressionism #futurism & #postimpressionism In Paris encountered #avant-garde movement Gestel was one of the leading #artists of the Dutch modernism movement with Piet Mondrian
Born #onthisday1782 Georggius van Os 19th-century #stilllife #painter best known for painting flowers Won first prize Society Felix Meritis in Amsterdam for still life work 1822 moved to Paris for the Sevres porcelain factory 1812 made Ridder in de orde van de Nederlandse Leewin
Died #onthisday1594 Nicholas Poussin pioneered #landscape #painting & leading classical French #Baroque style #painter influenced generation #artists inc. Paul Cezanne Dispassionate cerebral intellect & carefully considered art theories earned nickname "the philosopher painter"
Born #onthisday1503 Bronzino Florentine #mannerist and court #painter to Cosimo I de’ Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany Bronzino was predominantly a #portraitist but also #painted elegant stylish religious & allegorical subjects inc. his renowned Venus Cupid Folly & Time (c. 1544–45)
Born #onthisday1883 Charles Demuth American watercolorist turned to oils later in career developing Precisionism style with Georgia O'Keeffe &Charles Sheeler Sensuous watercolors of flowers fruit & vegetables combined magical botanical precision with a relaxed Cubist abstraction
Born #onthisday1890 Jan Matulka Czech-American #artist Matulka's style swam from #Abstract #Expressionist through to #landscapes seemingly in same day 1st modern artists to depict Hopi snake rain dance & 1 of few abstract painters in Public Works Art Project & Federal Art Project
Born #onthisday1667 Christoph Agricola German #landscape #painter primarily in oils & gouache & produced several etchings painted idealistic landscapes & nature scenes mainly cabinet pictures with remarkably skilful representation of weather like thunderstorms & nocturnal scenes
Born #onthisday1946 Robert Maplethorpe American #photographer known for confronting treatment of controversial topics in black & white inc. celebrity portraits male & female nudes self-portraits #stilllife flowers & controversial 1960s & 1970s images of New York BDSM subculture
On #onthisday1811 Sense & Sensibility by Jane Austen published anonymously ‘By A Lady’ replaced #writer credit it tells the coming of age story of the Dashwood sisters The novel sold out 1st 750 copy print run in 1813 & continuously in print ever since + stage & film versions
Born #onthisday1861 Andrei Ryabushkin Russian #artist who painted ordinary 17th-century Russian lives His largely static works avoided scenes of social conflict yet lacked idealised ‘beauty’ sought by aristocratic patrons shown in 1890 1892 & 1894 Peredvizhniki exhibitions