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#Art #JohnSingerSargent (American, born Italy, 1856-1925). An Out-of-Doors Study, 1889.
#VanGogh of the Day: Pollard Willows, April 1889. Oil on canvas, 55.0 x 65.0 cm. Private collection.
He painted his partner Madeleine Knoblock in 1888-90 who was an artist’s model. She moved into his studio with him in 1889. A year later they had a son. Study for his partner (1889-90), Painting of his partner (1889-90), The Seine (1888) & Le Crotoy (1889)
27 Mars 1864: naissance de José Rico Cejudo, peintre espagnol.
➡️Pompeyana, 1889.
➡️Préparer le chapelet, 1922.
📝 ‘It’s a study I need, for I want to learn. … Heaps of people don’t copy. Heaps of others do copy – for me, I set myself to it by chance, and I find that it teaches and above all sometimes consoles’, wrote Vincent to his brother in 1889.
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Francis & Son, Department Store with branches in Brixton, Clapham Junction, Peckham and Streatham. Advertisement in the firm's Jubilee Brochure, Christmas 1889. #Streatham #Furzedown #SW16 https://t.co/mva2VfFlNd
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.
#VanGogh of the Day: Wheatfield with Cypresses, September 1889. Oil on canvas, 72.1 × 90.9 cm. @NationalGallery, London.
British painter and printmaker C R W Nevinson was born #onthisday in 1889. He’s best known for the harrowing works he made as an official war artist during the First World War https://t.co/Vg2ZqJlrSx
Erle Stanley Gardner, creator of Perry Mason, born July 17, 1889.
Dry Land Appearing, a wood engraving by Paul Nash who was born #onthisday in 1889. Nash grew up in Buckinghamshire, where he developed a love of landscapes
"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.
#FolkloreThursday
‘Whether I’ve sung a lullaby with colour I leave to the critics’ Vincent Van Gogh, 1889. Beautiful #Brushstrokes at the new @Tate #VanGogh #art #exhibition