Even though most part of her life she lived in the shadows of her older brothers, who were artists too, or as "the wife of". was born in 1889. Painting: Borde de mer.

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The Kreutzer Sonata is a novella by Leo Tolstoy

named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata.

The novella was published in 1889.

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Novelist, playwright and creator of one of the first detective novels, Wilkie Collins, died in 1889. 'Your tears come easy, when you're young, and beginning the world. Your tears come easy, when you're old, and leaving it.' (The Moonstone, 1868)

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John Knowsley Thornton (1845-1904) was a Scottish surgeon and the first to perform an adrenalectomy, in 1889. His patient was a 35 year old woman with hirsutism. The operation was a success (the tumour weighed 20 lbs!) but the patient died 2 years later due to recurrence.

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of the Day: Wheatfield with Cypresses, September 1889. Oil on canvas, 72.1 × 90.9 cm. , London.

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Mount Gaussier with the Mas de Saint-Paul, 1889.
Vincent van Gogh

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Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason, born July 17, 1889.

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Vincent van Gogh - Wild rose, 1889.
The Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam.

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Charles Sidney Raleigh, American (born England), 1830-1925 -- Chilly Observation
1889.

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"If the oak is out before the ash,
'Twill be a summer of wet and splash;
But if the ash is before the oak,
'Twill be a summer of fire and smoke."

This piece of plant folklore was reported in "The Folk-Lore of Plants" by T.F. Thiselton- Dyer in 1889.

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Johannes was born 7 May 1889. If you're interested in his life & work, be sure to join 12 June for their ★★★★★ production, Oysters. An intimate & darkly comic portrait of the composer's search for perfection, with live violin! https://t.co/zzJcVWahqK

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Charlie Chaplin was born on this day in 1889. Chaplin believed he was born on East Street which sits at the heart of the Walworth Heritage Action Zone. East Street Market is one of the oldest trading markets in which began in the 16th century. https://t.co/2tPIV5nD1y

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‘Whether I’ve sung a lullaby with colour I leave to the critics’ Vincent Van Gogh, 1889. Beautiful at the new ⁦

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ABC's of February: "W" is for...
William H Richardson

The baby carriage was invented in 1733. Richardson patented an improvement to the baby carriage in the United States on June 18, 1889. His design ditched the shell shape for a basket-shaped carriage.

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Garden scene from Faust illustrated by Harry Clarke. Artist born on March 17th 1889.

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Teresianas School is another masterpiece buiding of modernist architect Antonio Gaudí, 1888-1889. We used to live quite near some years ago, it always reminds me of very dearful… https://t.co/5wGF624Tjc

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Ivan Aivazovsky.
Wave.
1889.
Russian State Museum, Saint Petersburg.

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British painter Edward Wadsworth, who was associated with the Vorticism movement, was born on this date in 1889. This is "Bronze Ballet."

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of the Day: A Wheatfield with Cypresses, September 1889. Oil on canvas, 72.1 × 90.9 cm. , London.

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C R W Nevinson was born in 1889. As an official war artist during the First World War he recorded his experiences at the Western Front in works like these prints https://t.co/UDDGGbebjQ

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