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Happy birthday to bisexual jazz-age heiress Henrietta Bingham born #onthisday in 1901! Henrietta was a friend of the famously queer Bloomsbury group, and subject of this nude painting by queer artist Dora Carrington.
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#OnThisDay 1905 Michael Kemp #Tippett, English #composer & #conductor, born in London
Born #OnThisDay in 1861: French painter #JacquesÉmileBlanche (1861-1942)
Portrait of Madeleine Jagerschmidt, 1895
#Blanche #FrenchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1861: French painter #JacquesÉmileBlanche (1861-1942)
Portrait of Berthi Capel, 1897
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Born #OnThisDay in 1861: French painter #JacquesÉmileBlanche (1861-1942)
Portrait of Madame Abel Hermant, 1888
#Blanche #FrenchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1861: French painter #JacquesÉmileBlanche (1861-1942)
Portrait of Lady Michelham, 1905
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Born #OnThisDay in 1861: French painter #JacquesÉmileBlanche (1861-1942)
Self-Portrait with Raphael de Ochoa, 1890
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Born #OnThisDay in 1861: French painter #JacquesÉmileBlanche (1861-1942)
Self-Portrait, ca. 1890
#Blanche #FrenchArt
Happy Birthday to #HenriMatisse, born #OnThisDay in 1869. 🥳
#EttaCone acquired several drawings by the artist in 1936 & 1937, including this rare example of the artist turning his gaze on himself. See it now before A Modern Influence CLOSES on Jan. 2: https://t.co/V9n6H71BqJ
Born #OnThisDay in 1869: French artist #HenriMatisse (1869-1954)
Portrait of the Artist's Wife, Amelie, 1913
#Matisse #FrenchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1869: French artist #HenriMatisse (1869-1954)
Portrait of #AndréDerain (1880-1954), 1905
#Matisse #FrenchArt
#OnThisDay in 335, Pope Sylvester I died and was buried in the Catacomb of Priscilla in Rome
Born #OnThisDay in 1869: French artist #HenriMatisse (1869-1954)
Self-Portrait in a Striped t-shirt, 1906
#Matisse #FrenchArt
Born #onthisday1869 Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée French #Rococo #painter Won Grand Prix de Rome 4 painting (1749) elected member of Academie royale de peinture et de sculpture (1755) Career blossomed in Paris leading to appointment as court painter to Elizabeth Empress of Russia
Joining me in the kitchen to help me finish the turkey stew is Pohjola's Daughter, in recordings conducted by Anthony Collins, Leonard Bernstein, Hannu Lintu and Mark Elder. Sibelius's poem of primal magic was first performed #OnThisDay in 1906.
"Aha!" said Thomas Becket #OnThisDay 1170, "NOW we see the violence inherent in the system!"
Kennet and Avon canal completed by opening Caen Hill Locks, Devizes #onthisday 1810. Engineer John Rennie, these images come from Rennie's notebook in our archive but owned by Smeatonian Society. Check out our John Rennie website and map https://t.co/ToYLb5AGKW
“A qualunque donna piacerebbe essere fedele. Difficile è trovare un uomo a cui esserlo.”
#MarleneDietrich
#27dicembre 1901
#OnThisDay
Marlene Dietrich
On 26 December 1825, Constable drew Brighton Beach during a visit to his family in Brighton. The date is inscribed in the bottom left corner. The drawing was purchased with the assistance of the Felix Cobbold Bequest Fund. #CreatingConstable #onthisday
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Born #OnThisDay in 1734: English painter #GeorgeRomney (1734-1802)
Portrait of The Beaumont Family, 1777-9
#Romney #BritishArt #Georgian #FamilyPortraits