Thomas Gainsborough’s portraits of friends: the Linley musical family, known as ‘The Nest of the Nightingales’

Here the singing Linley sisters

🖌Gainsborough, Double portrait of Elizabeth and Mary Linley, c. 1772
Dulwich Picture Gallery, London

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Happy birthday to now living in the UK, the artist was in Gutu, Zimbabwe and lived in South Africa from the ages of nine to seventeen. Her work reveals a deeply personal vision of Southern African life: https://t.co/9AUAiwPNxd

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Happy birthday to the luminous Michelle Pfeiffer. Here as Susie Diamond singing Makin’ Whoopee on a piano, in The Fabulous Baker Boys.

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"I didn’t have any models for my I didn’t need any, having already four or five disasters in the family and six or seven tragic stories."

Carol Rama (1918–2015) in

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"I didn’t have any models for my I didn’t need any, having already four or five disasters in the family and six or seven tragic stories."

Carol Rama (1918–2015) in

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Gosh there are a lot of important coming up from the history of – including today’s: Wilhelm Busch, creator of was 1832 – here’s a still from the series by Halas & Batchelor!

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Remembering the wonderful on her birthday. Unforgettable as Samantha in the beloved fantasy sitcom Have you seen paid a wonderful homage to that show.

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« Que le soleil est beau quand tout frais il se lève,
Comme une explosion nous lançant son bonjour »
Charles Baudelaire

🖌Edvard Munch, The Sun, 1909

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"The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope while the left eye peers into the microscope."

Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) in

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I couldn’t let this birthday pass without celebrating what is IMHO the crowning achievement of career, her role as in arguably one of the best movies ever made, Happy birthday Bette.

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Remembering the legendary Bette Davis on her birthday. This is one of my most popular portraits of her, what do you think?

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Here are some works by French Romantic painter Pierre-Paul Prud'hon (April 4, 1758 – February 16, 1823).

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