"Fog everywhere. Fog up the river, where it flows among green aits and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city." (Dickens)

🎨 Schindler (1886)

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Born Tsuguharu Foujita Japanese–French & applied Japanese ink techniques to Western style paintings Foujita was "most important Japanese artist working in the West during the 20th century" Foujita’s Book of Cats 1 of Top 500 rare books

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Aloïse Corbaz (b. 1886)
"Although Corbaz said little to Dubuffet, he speculated that she was not mad; rather, she found a space within her “madness” to establish a selfhood where she could create her remarkable visual universe independent of the cultural world."

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[C’ÉTAIT UN 24 NOVEMBRE 1957]
Mort de Diego Rivera (1886-1957), peintre mexicain mondialement connu pour ses peintures murales réalisées au Mexique et aux États-Unis. Il fut l'époux de Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) artiste peintre mexicaine.

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in 1935
remembering the Yale-Harvard games of yore:1886
Cover of The New Yorker, November 23, 1935
Antonio Petruccelli (1907-1994)

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"Hope" is the thing with feathers —
That perches in the soul —
And sings the tune without the words —
And never stops — at all —
(…)

I've heard it in the chillest land —
And on the strangest Sea —
(…)

──Poetry by Emily Dickinson

Painting: George Frederic Watts "Hope" 1886

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Our new catalogue of British Drawings and Watercolours is now out! See link in bio. The cover lot is this fine view of Clifden in Connemara, Ireland by Andrew Nicholl (1804-1886). The exhibition runs from 28th November until 21st December

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The Earl of Dartmouth, by Henry Charles Seppings Wright - Vanity Fair, 10 October 1895

William Heneage Legge was a British peer and Conservative politician. He served as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household between 1885 and 1886 and again between 1886 and 1891.

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Concept art by production designer Junge, Alfred (1886-1964) for A Matter of Life and Death (1946) Dir Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell.

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Alfonso XIII - Vanity Fair, 21 January 1893

He was King of Spain from 17 May 1886 to 14 April 1931, when the Second Spanish Republic was proclaimed. He was a monarch from birth as his father, Alfonso XII, had died the previous year.

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James Tissot, The Testing of the Suitors of the Holy Virgin (L'épreuve des prétendants au mariage de la sainte Vierge), 1886-1894 https://t.co/TENVhFmhs5

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ラファエル・コラン
1850–1916

《花月 はなづき(フロレアル)》

1886(明治19)年
油彩、カンヴァス
東京藝術大学大学美術館

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Vase with Carnations and Other Flowers, 1886 https://t.co/kcTsiot5eq

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Mich interessiert nicht das Objekt, sondern das, was zwischen mir und dem Objekt passiert.

Claude *14.11.1840 – 5.12.1926

[Selbstporträt, 1886; Sohn Jean 1872 ]

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James Tissot, Jesus Stilling the Tempest (Jésus calmant la tempête), 1886-1894 https://t.co/X4eMyFQUlN

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James Tissot, The Tribute Money (Le denier de César), 1886-1894 https://t.co/gAQi7L2Rim

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