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Died in 1666: Dutch painter (1580-1666)

Portrait of Isaac Abrahamsz. Massa (1586-1643), 1626

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2021-08-26

Artist Rufino Tamayo was born in 1899 in Oaxaca, Mexico. This is his 1932 canvas Las Musas de la Pintura (The Muses of Painting)

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2021-08-26

Happy birthday, The American artist was born in 1910. Pictured is her ethereal Aux environs de Paris (Paris and Vicinity), painted in 1962.

"My dreams are bristling with objects that relate to nothing in the dictionary," Tanning once explained.

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2021-08-26

25th of August: in 1875 Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel on record. Webb set off from Dover in England and swam to Calais in France in 21 hours and 45 minutes.

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2021-08-25

Born in 1552: Bolognese painter (1552-1614)

Portrait of a Noblewoman, before 1614

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2021-08-25

Born in 1552: Bolognese painter (1552-1614)

Portrait of a Girl, early 1580s

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2021-08-25

in 1900 in Sardinia was born Stanis Dessy, master in woodcutting depicting Sardinian miners, shepherds and farmers. He was one of the main contributors on the Art magazine L'Eroica

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2021-08-24

24th Aug 1814 British troops set the White House ablaze as they sack Washington D.C. thought to be retaliation for the Americans burning York, Canada, the year before.

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2021-08-24

Actress Barbara Eden was born in 1931. She starred as Jeannie in I Dream of Jeannie, in which she wore this Gwen Wakeling designed costume of a ruched pink silk chiffon top, matching velvet bolero jacket and pink silk chiffon harem pants.  

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2021-08-23

Even 4 days of tremors and the feast of Vulcan in 79 did not awaken Pompeii to what was about to happen...

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2021-08-23

Born David Boyd OAM Australian & member of Boyd artistic dynasty Widely known as leading Australian potters before controversial symbolic paintings on Australian explorers focused on the tragic history of Aboriginal Tasmanians (1957)

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2021-08-23

Born Eugene Lanceray Russian & associated stylistically with influential pre-Revolution art movement the World of Art Fascinated with Became infatuated with living in Dagestan

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2021-08-23

Iconic French artist died  1806.⁠

This evocative work is part of a group of allegorical depictions of love painted by Fragonard in the 1780s, and portrays love as a natural force and uncontrollable passion, stronger than the people affected by it.

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2021-08-22

Claude Debussy was born in 1862. He completed La Mer in 1905. Distancing himself from the symphonies and symphonic poems of the German tradition, he called his piece "three symphonic sketches" instead.

So no, it isn't a symphony.

https://t.co/mRpfn31xAI

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2021-08-22

22 August 1620 Oliver Cromwell married Elizabeth Bourchier, daughter of a London fur dealer, at St Giles Church, Cripplegate. They had a devoted relationship & a family of 9 children (8 surviving infancy). Portraits in our collection.

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2021-08-22

Today we remember the incomparable Dr Marie Lebour, born in 1876. Her infectious love of nature was a true gift to the MBA during her many dedicated years, in addition to over 40 publications and a beautiful collection of watercolours and sketches.

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2021-08-20

8 yrs ago.

I recorded w/ the legendary (Sir) - the original voice of & other hit kids’ shows.

It was for my quirky doc about iconic Manchester animation house

🎧You can hear it here: https://t.co/ggzikrHTJ9

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2021-08-20

Born in 1743: Comtesse du Barry (1743-93), mistress of

Portrait by Élisabeth Louise (1755-1842), 1782


Corcoran Gallery of Art

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2021-08-20