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Enjoy William Sharp’s fine chromolithographs of the Great Water Lily of America 1854 https://t.co/khxB3hjhFo
Swiss-German artist Paul Klee, who died #OTD 1940, went to Tunisia in 1914 ~ “the colour possesses me”, he said
Henry Tonks depicts pal (& fellow war artist) John Singer Sargent (left) / and Sargent sketches Tonks (1918)
18C botanist Jeanne Baret was 1st woman to circumnavigate globe, posing as a man on Bougainville’s expedition
Delicately detailed woodblock prints from Tanigami Konan’s Book of Western Flowers 1917 https://t.co/OWZspZBreU
18C French artist Marie Gabrielle Capet’s lively self-portrait, in black and red chalk with white highlights 1790
Henri Toulouse-Lautrec died, aged just 36, #OTD 1901 ~ Salon in Rue des Moulins / & getting it expertly appraised
Belgian neo-Impressionist Théo van Rysselberghe’s Cap Bénat 1917 / Pines of Rayol 1912 / Tangier Mkt 1883
19C Austrian Aloys Zötl spent 50 yrs painting his bestiary ~ Boa Constrictor / Cheetah / Elk https://t.co/tWhCloCLFJ
Edinburgh post-impressionist Samuel Peploe absorbed French influences to create vibrant still lifes