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Born #OnThisDay in 1626: #WilliamII (1626-50), Prince of Orange, Stadtholder of Holland etc.
Portrait as a child by Anthony #vanDyck (1599-1641), 1632
#WillemII #OrangeNassau #ChildrenInArt #DogsInArt
#Otd 1628: Charles I offered 51 concessions (“graces”) to Irish in return for subsidies to expand his army! Charles I's queen French Catholic Henrietta Maria. But various excuses were used not to grant these concessions! Played part in 1641 Irish Rebellion https://t.co/dkNwJOnGAX
Family painting also includes artist families who maintained a tradition of excellence for generations: the Holbeins; Brueghels, Teniers…Van Ruisdaels. This, by one of the three Le Nain Brothers, Louis; “Milkmaid’s Family” (c1641)
The Nave and Choir of the Mariakerk in Utrecht, 1641 https://t.co/4Cg8UGs4OJ #museumarchive #rijksmuseum
Thomas Heeremans (10.6.1641–1694) was a Dutch https://t.co/zk2ydJd7Ry skating over frozen canal
Born #OnThisDay in 1609: Cardinal-Infante #FerdinandofAustria (1609-1641) Governor of the #SpanishNetherlands, son of king #PhilipIII
Equestrian portrait after #GaspardeCrayer (1584-1669), 17th century
#FerdinandofSpain #HorsesInArt
NEW GALLERY Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641)
https://t.co/CLmhJiT4gy
#worldart #painting #art #artist #gallery #oilpainting #watercolor #visualart
#artshop #paintingforsale #artistsofinstagram #drawing #artist #artwork #paint #illustration #sketch #draw #instaart #creative #iloveart
3 May 1641: Protesting outside #Westminster Hall, John Lilburne, future Leveller tells an acquaintance that if justice is not done to the Earl of #Strafford 'they would pull the King out of Whitehall' #otd (BM) And they did, in the end... #overheardinLondon
Born #OnThisDay in 1566: Dutch painter #MichielvanMierevelt (1566-1641)
Portrait of an Eighty-Year Old Man, 1624
#Mierevelt #Miereveld #Miereveldt #DutchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1566: Dutch painter #MichielvanMierevelt (1566-1641)
Portrait of Horace Vere, Baron Vere of Tilbury (1565-1635), 1629
#Mierevelt #Miereveld #Miereveldt #DutchArt
Happy birthday
Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt
(1566-1641)
Dutch painter
#dutchgoldenage #dutchpainter #realism #realisticart #realisticpainting #painting #oilpainting #artist #portrait #portraitpainting #realisticportrait #painting #painter #classic #classicart #classicpainting
Born #OnThisDay in 1608: #GastonofFrance, Duke of Orléans (1608-60), son of King #HenriIV & #MariadeMedici
Portrait by #AnthonyvanDyck (1599-1641), 1632-4
#Bourbon
Sir Robert Sibbald, Edinburgh university’s first Professor of Medicine, co-founder of @TheBotanics , personal physician to the king, Scottish Geographer Royal and founder of @RCPEdin (and one impressively busy man) was born #otd 1641
SALE Long 80″ Big 7-8mm White Baroque natural Freshwater Pearl Necklace-nec1641 https://t.co/stH9dDgaeu
Born #OnThisDay in 1599: Southern Netherlandish painter #AnthonyvanDyck (1599-1641)
Portrait of a Woman and Child, ca. 1620-1
#vanDyck #AntoonvanDyck #SouthernNetherlandishArt
#ChildrenInArt