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Born #OnThisDay in 1805: German painter #FranzXaverWinterhalter (1805-73)
Portrait of Leonilla Ivanovna Bariatinskaya, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn (1816-1918), 1843
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Born #OnThisDay in 1805: German painter #FranzXaverWinterhalter (1805-73)
Portrait of Princess Gouramma (1841-64), 1852
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Born #OnThisDay in 1805: German painter #FranzXaverWinterhalter (1805-73)
Portrait of Princess Elizaveta Alexandrovna Tchernicheva (1826-1902), 1858
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Born #OnThisDay in 1805: German painter #FranzXaverWinterhalter (1805-73)
Portrait of Hélène Mallet (1825-1896), née Bartholdy, 1851
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Born #OnThisDay in 1805: German painter #FranzXaverWinterhalter (1805-73)
Portrait of Grand Princess Yelena Pavlovna, 1862
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Born #OnThisDay in 1805: German painter #FranzXaverWinterhalter (1805-73)
Portrait of Pauline Sándor, Princess Metternich, 1860
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#OnThisDay 20 April 1643 Prince Rupert's engineers detonated the first ever explosive mine used in England to breach the defences and retake @LichfieldCath Close. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD
#OnThisDay, 1946, born #TimCurry = Timothy James Curry - #Actor
Happy 75th Birthday to TIM CURRY - born #onthisday in 1946! 🎂
19 April 1775: The American revolution begins as #British troops open fire on American colonist during the Battle of #Lexington and #Concord, the first first #military engagements of the war. #USRevolution #history #HistoryMatters #OnThisDay #ad https://t.co/O1SU5bR1UL
Happy birthday to Colombian figurative artist and sculptor Fernando Botero born #onthisday in 1932 in Medellín, Colombia.
Fernando Botero - The letter, 1976, Museo Botero Bogotá, Museos del Banco de la República @Banrepcultural
oil on canvas
#stomouseio #FernandoBotero
Edward Jones, ‘Bardd y Brenin’, harpist, historian, bard, antiquary, performer, composer, arranger, and collector of music died #onthisday 1824 https://t.co/OKzukSjJiA #WelshHistory #Wales @MusicNLW
"I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it. I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see." 🎨 French painter #GustavMoreau passed away #onthisday 18 April 1898. #Art #Painting
17 April 1397: English #poet and #author Geoffrey #Chaucer, known as the Father of English #literature, tells The #Canterbury Tales for the first time at the court of King Richard II. #history #OnThisDay #ad https://t.co/SldsjAVVMY
#artistoftheday
"I didn’t have any models for my #painting. I didn’t need any, having already four or five disasters in the family and six or seven tragic #love stories."
Carol Rama (1918–2015) #bornonthisday in #Turin
#contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #painter #paintings
#artoftheday
"I didn’t have any models for my #painting. I didn’t need any, having already four or five disasters in the family and six or seven tragic #love stories."
Carol Rama (1918–2015) #bornonthisday in #Turin
#art #artist #artists #arthistory #fineart #italianart #painter
#OnThisDay 1794 there was no drawing room at court, so Queen Charlotte dressed at 1pm & then spent the time till dinner sitting for her portrait - possibly this one by Gainsborough of that year...
#twitterstorians #HistParl #SATURDAY