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At 15 Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun was painting the aristocracy, in her 20s she was the favoured painter of Marie Antoinette, and by her 30s she was fleeing the French Revolution. Learn more about this 18th century portrait painter: https://t.co/rHyKWcsimk #PaintingHerStory
At 15 Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun was painting the aristocracy, in her 20s she was the favoured painter of Marie Antoinette, and by her 30s she was fleeing the French Revolution. Learn more about this 18th century portrait painter: https://t.co/rHyKWcsimk #PaintingHerStory
At 15 Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun was painting the aristocracy, in her 20s she was the favoured painter of Marie Antoinette, and by her 30s she was fleeing the French Revolution. Learn more about this 18th century portrait painter: https://t.co/dWC7ZEdPSe #PaintingHerStory #IWD2019
Come and join us for our 5-week course, 'More than muses: A feminist guide to art history', and explore the work of women artists, patrons, collectors, art writers, and leaders in the arts. Book all 5 sessions or pick individual weeks: https://t.co/zklxr5jMYi #5WomenArtists
Michelangelo died #OnThisDay in 1564. Painter, on panel and in fresco, sculptor and architect, writer of sonnets, he was the first artist recognised by contemporaries as a genius. Come into Room 8 and see two unfinished paintings by him: https://t.co/0Eq5JmjJqn
Throughout this frosty scene you can spot people skating on the ice and some are even playing 'kolf' (a type of hockey). With the landscape fading into the distance, this is a design that Aert van der Neer would come back to again and again: https://t.co/u3paDn3zb7
Paul Cézanne was born #OnThisDay in 1839. Collector & philanthropist Samuel Courtauld amassed a staggering 21 works by the artist, spending more money on Cézanne than on any other artist. Come and see a selection of these works in #CourtauldImpressionists: https://t.co/p9bAkL6dTN
The artist Parmigianino was born #OnThisDay in 1503. We have three paintings by him in our collection and two of these can be seen in Room 8: 'Portrait of a Collector' and The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine'. Learn more about them here: https://t.co/ppnmpRKq2X
In 1858 Edwin Landseer accepted the commission to create four sculptures of lions for Trafalgar Square. He prepared himself by studying the lions at the @zsllondonzoo and producing vivid drawings like this. Come and see more of them in our free exhibition: https://t.co/HrdAyhvVon
Have a tipple with this young man. He appears to have vine leaves wrapped around his head whilst clasping a wine bottle and drinking from a glass. This painting may be a copy of a lost original by Murillo: https://t.co/fvnpjIOMtr