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Born #OnThisDay in 1674: #PhilippeII, Duke of Orléans (1674-1723), Regent of France
Portrait after #JeanBaptisteSanterre (1651-1717), after 1717
#Bourbon #BourbonOrléans
Born #OnThisDay in 1674: #PhilippeII, Duke of Orléans (1674-1723), Regent of France
Portrait with his mistress #MadamedeParabère as Minerva by #JeanBaptisteSanterre (1651-1717), ca. 1715-6
#Bourbon #BourbonOrléans
Joshua Reynolds (1723-92)
Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn and Lady Henrietta Williams-Wynn (Somerset) his wife, in masque costume, c.1740.
Possibly a memorial painting (black costumes) to Henrietta. They were married 11 Apr 1769 and she died 24 Jul same year.
@AmgueddfaCymru
Joshua Reynolds (btd 1723) used classical myths in artful portraits-here Annabella Blake's Juno, to seduce Jove, borrows Venus' girdle embroidered with Love, Desire & Flattery That Robs a Man of Nous. It worked: Blake soon after got her marriage dissolved & married her lover.
English painter #SirJoshuaReynolds, was born #onthisday 1723.⠀
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This outstanding work, dated c.1775, depicts Mrs Elizabeth Carnac. The sun-dappled landscape setting shows the artist’s response to the portrait innovations of his rival, Gainsborough.
Sir Joshua Reynolds born #OTD in 1723, artist, portrait painter & aesthetician who sought to lead British painting away from the indigenous anecdotal pictures of the early 18th century toward the formal rhetoric of the continental Grand Style - the idealisation of the imperfect.
Antonio Maria I Zanetti, Eneas Carrying Anchises, his Father, from the Burning of Troy, 1723 https://t.co/o3AQuNeepq #cmaopenaccess #cmaprints
"Sooo?"
"Wikipedia says... 1723."
"Told you."
"Oh, shut up and eat your leaves."
Born #OnThisDay in 1723: Scottish philosopher #AdamFerguson (1723-1816)
Portrait by #JoshuaReynolds (1723-92), ca. 1781
#Ferguson #ScottishEnlightenment
The #Armory 1723 - Henderson Crystals! Hear that? Its a series of crystals that, when all three hit their mark, causes the target to be destroyed with sound!
Joshua Reynolds, British (1723-1792)
Selina, Lady Skipworth, 1787.
@frickcollection #Georgian
New drop on @SuperRare 💎
"The Carnaval That Wasn't" by @NasoVini
"In 2021 due to the pandemic the Carnaval was postponed for the second time since the first parade in 1723"
https://t.co/ds6AVd6Vk8
#ArtUnderQuarantine curated exhibit of NFTs by
@DigitalHatt Gallery
#art #nft
Johanna Herolt (1668–1723). Herolt was the eldest daughter of the painters Maria Sibylla Merian and Johann Andreas Graff, and learned to paint from them along with her sister, Dorothea Maria Graff.
Three Mice Nibbling Fruit, The Morgan Library & Museum
Sir Joshua Reynolds PRA (1723-1780)
Theory, 1779-80.
@royalacademy #EnglishArt
I love this print by Bernard Picart, c. 1683-1723, so much. Rijksmuseum. #SexAndSexualityInStuartBritain
Gavin Hamilton was born into an influential Lanarkshire family in 1723. In his 20s he tried to establish himself as a portrait painter in London producing dazzling images like this of Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of Hamilton @NatGalleriesSco @thamesandhudson #thestoryofscottishart
Baptized #OnThisDay in 1636: Brussels painter #LancelotVolders (1636-1723)
Portrait of Isabella Charlotte of Nassau-Dietz (1692-1757) & Sophia Hedwig of Nassau-Dietz (1690-1734), ca. 1700
#Volders #SouthernNetherlandishArt #ChildrenInArt