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Four women in the fashions of Münster, Gesina ter Borch, c. 1670
(Rijksmuseum)
20 Sept 1663: b. Henry Fitzroy Duke of Grafton to Charles II & Barbara Villiers #otd (BM)
20 Sept: feast of St. Eustace, one of 14 'holy helpers'; whose feast was suppressed in 1969 #otd (BM)
Veronese, The Finding of Moses, c. 1581/1582
(National Gallery of Art, Washington)
17 Sept 1681: d. John Lacy, playwright and a leading actor at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Here's a fantastic & unusual triple portrait by John Michael Wright of him in his three most popular roles from the Royal Collection
17 Sept 1273: Robert Kilwardby #Dominican theologian is enthroned as Archbishop of #Canterbury #otd He resigned the see five years later on becoming a cardinal
Woman Painting a Portrait,
by Elisabetta Sirani, 1638-1665.
(The Hermitage Museum)
Nicolaes Eliasz Pickenoy,
Portrait of a Lady, 1633.
(Detroit Institute of Arts)
Hercules Sanders,
A Woman Cleaning Fish, 1647.
(Detroit Institute of Arts)