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Born #OnThisDay in 1810: Danish painter #WilhelmMarstrand (1810-73)
Portrait of a Young Woman, 19th Century
#Marstrand #DanishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1810: Danish painter #WilhelmMarstrand (1810-73)
Portrait of an Italian Woman, ca. 1840
#Marstrand #DanishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1810: Danish painter #WilhelmMarstrand (1810-73)
Portrait of N.F.S. Grundtvig, ca. 1862
#Marstrand #DanishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1810: Danish painter #WilhelmMarstrand (1810-73)
Portrait of Gottlieb Bindesbøll, 1834
#Marstrand #DanishArt
Born #onthisday1883 Janet Cumbrae-Stewart Australian #painter taught by Frederick McCubbin & Exhibited with Victorian Artists Society & member of Melbourne Society of Women Painters Spent 1920s & 1930s painting & exhibiting in Italy France & Britain Returned to Australia in 1939
On This Day 1 year ago, Steven Universe cast made a guest on The Estelle Show (@EstelleDarlings) for a holiday special 💎💖🎄🎊 on @AppleMusic in December 22, 2020. 🌸🌹⭐️🎉🎅❄️💕🌟#StevenUniverse #TheEstelleShow #OnThisDay #Happy1stAnniversary https://t.co/lC3CWluJO3
#OnThisDay 22nd December 1855 Charles Dickens read his Ghost Story of Christmas at the Mechanic's Institute #Sheffield Mr Dickens was presented with some suitable #Sheffield gifts! What a night this must have been?
@Dickens_Society @DickensMuseum @DickensDay_UK @DickensFellowHQ
#OnThisDay 1796 Wolfe Tone, General Hoche & over 14,000 French soldiers attempted to land at Bantry Bay, Cork. 36 of the 43 vessels that set out from France made it there but they couldn't land due to bad storms. It would have to wait till the summer of 1798.
#Ireland #History
Born #onthisday1815 Thomas Couture French history #painter & teacher exhibited historical & genre pictures at Salon de Paris won several medals Innovative technique garnered significant & drew Government & Church commissions for murals during late 1840s to 1850s
Born #OnThisDay in 1858: Dutch painter #JanToorop (1858-1928)
Self-portrait, 1915
#Toorop #DutchArt
In memory of Emily Brontë, who died #OnThisDay 19 December 1848 at Haworth, one year after the publication of Wuthering Heights under the pseudonym Ellis Bell. #writers
📆| On This Day in 1994 Manic Street Preachers played the first of 3 nights at London Astoria
#ManicStreetPreachers | #OnThisDay | @Manics
#OnThisDay in 2009 FINAL FANTASY XIII was released in Japan! Lightning! Snow! Sazh! Hope! Fang and Vanille! and so much more!
What are some of your favorite musical moments from the legendary soundtrack by Masashi Hamauzu (who will be with us tomorrow in Lyon, France!)?
#ffxiii
#OnThisDay 1966: #DoctorWho: The Highlanders, Episode 1.
#DrWho #sciencefiction #scifi #classic #1960s
"For somehow not only at Christmas but all the long year through, the joy you give to others is the joy that comes back to you." John Greenleaf Whittier, Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery 🎂 born #OTD #OnThisDay #BOTD
♡ Feeling the spirit!
Io Saturnalia! 🎉
#OnThisDay the Roman calendar saw the start of the Saturnalia festival which lasted 6 days.
Held to honour Saturn, it featured a public banquet, gift-giving, and a carnival atmosphere that briefly upended #Roman social norms.
#Classics #History #Saturnalia
Baptised #OnThisDay in 1770: German composer #LudwigvanBeethoven (1770-1827)
Portrait by #JosephKarlStieler (1781-1858), 1820
#Beethoven #GermanComposers
Beethoven-Haus, Bonn
Born #onthisday1904 Paul Cadmus #etcher & #painter Widely recognized 4 egg tempera paintings depicting urban settings & gritty social interactions Sailors & Floozies = art as satire Created highly finished #drawings of #nude male figures combining eroticism with social commentary
Kurt Vonnegut
Portrait by Travis Simpkins https://t.co/UjuDuBuUwV
#KurtVonnegut #SoItGoes #OnThisDay #TravisSimpkins #KurtVonnegutMuseumAndLibrary #SlaughterHouseFive #BreakfastOfChampions #literature #books #history #Dresden #WorldWarII #WWII #BillyPilgrim #otd #art #portrait
Born #OnThisDay in 1669: Dutch painter #ArnoldBoonen (1669-1729)
Portrait of a Man, ca. 1720
#Boonen #DutchBaroque #DutchArt