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Born #OnThisDay in 1498: #EleanorofAustria (1498-1558), Queen of Portugal & France by marriage
Portrait by #JoosvanCleve (ca. 1485-1540), ca. 1531-4
#Habsburg #Aviz #Valois
“It is extraordinary to see the sea; what a spectacle! She is so unfettered that one wonders whether it is possible that she again become calm.” – Claude Monet, born #onthisday in 1840
Claude Monet, Seascape, Storm, 1866.
Born #OnThisDay in 1840: French painter #ClaudeMonet (1840-1926)
Portrait of Eugénie Graff (1819-91), 1882
#Monet #FrenchArt #Impressionism #DogsInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1840: French painter #ClaudeMonet (1840-1926)
Portrait of Père Paul, 1882
#Monet #FrenchArt #Impressionism
Born #OnThisDay in 1840: French painter #ClaudeMonet (1840-1926)
Portrait of the Artist's Son Michel (1878 -1966), ca. 1879
#Monet #FrenchArt #Impressionism #ChildrenInArt
Musée Marmottan Monet
Born #OnThisDay in 1840: French painter #ClaudeMonet (1840-1926)
Portrait of the Artist's Son Jean (1867-1914), 1869
#Monet #FrenchArt #Impressionism #ChildrenInArt
Fondation Bemberg
November 14, 1673: Sir Christopher Wren was knighted.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
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#ChristopherWren #Architect #RoyalSociety #London #Freemasons #Freemasonry #Masonic #knight #knighthood #history #OnThisDay #otd #TravisSimpkins #art #portrait #sketch
November 14, 1951: Hank Williams appeared on television for the very first time on the Perry Como Show, filmed in New York City.
Portrait by Travis Simpkins
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#HankWilliams #HankSr #PerryComo #CountryMusic #singersongwriter #debut #grandoleopry #OnThisDay
Born #OnThisDay in 1844: French painter #PaulMathey (1844-1929)
Portrait of Eugène Rodrigues Henriques (1853-1928), aka Erastene Ramiro, 1903
#Mathey #FrenchArt
Clark Art Institute
Born #OnThisDay in 1844: French painter #PaulMathey (1844-1929)
Portrait of #LoÿsDelteil (1869-1927)
#Mathey #FrenchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1805: German composer and pianist #FannyMendelssohn (1805-47)
Portrait by #MoritzDanielOppenheim (1800-82), 1842
#FannyHensel #WomenComposers #GermanComposers
The Jewish Museum, NY
Born #OnThisDay in 1719: German composer #LeopoldMozart (1719-87)
Portrait with his children by #LouisCarrogisCarmontelle (1717-1806), 1763
#Mozart #GermanComposers #FamilyPortraits
#OnThisDay 29 years ago, November 13, 1992 - the episode
"Christmas with the Joker"
aired on television.
Directed by Kent Butterworth
Written by Eddie Gorodetsky
Story edited by Sean Catherine Derek & @Paul_Dini #BTAS
#OnThisDay in comics history the incomparable Carlos Ezquerra -- lauded @2000AD artist and co-creator of Judge Dredd -- was born!
Let's celebrate by taking a moment to truly admire the life and career of an absolute drokking legend.
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Gerardo Dottori was born #OnThisDay in 1884. Between late 1911 and early 1912 he met Giacomo Balla and joined the Futurist movement, becoming the dominant figure in Umbria’s avant-garde circles. He became one of the first Futurists to analyse the dynamism of the natural world.
#OnThisDay 1695 John Bevis was born in #Salisbury. In 1731 he discovered the Crab Nebula & in 1737 observed Venus eclipsing Mercury, the only recorded observation of one planet eclipsing another. This pic is from his star atlas Uranographia Britannica of 1750 #ExploreYourArchive
Born #OnThisDay in 1683: #GeorgeII (1683-1760), King of Great Britain & Ireland
Portrait by #GodfreyKneller (1646-1723), 1716
#Hanover
Born #OnThisDay in 1818: Russian writer #IvanTurgenev (1818-83)
Portrait by #IlyaRepin (1844-1930), 1874
#Turgenev #Тургенев #RussianLiterature