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Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun was born #onthisday in 1755. One of the most prominent French portrait painters of the late 1700s, she created over 800 paintings and was one of 14 women admitted to the Royal Academy prior to the French Revolution. https://t.co/JVC8RFOapz
#OnThisDay 1797, during the French Revolutionary Wars, sailors on 16 Royal Navy ships anchored at Spithead staged a mutiny in pursuit of better pay and conditions. The mutineers eventually negotiated an agreement that saw a Royal pardon for all crews and a pay rise for sailors.
Born #OnThisDay in 1851: Swedish painter #ErnstJosephson (1851-1906)
Portrait of #LouiseBreslau (1856-1927), 1886
#Josephson #SwedishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1851: Swedish painter #ErnstJosephson (1851-1906)
Portrait of a Girl in Blue, ca. 1880
#Josephson #SwedishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1851: Swedish painter #ErnstJosephson (1851-1906)
Portrait of Mrs Hanna Marcus, 1880
#Josephson #SwedishArt
#OnThisDay in 1746, 275 years ago, the Battle of Culloden took place. It was the last battle fought on British soil.
At about 1pm the Jacobite Army opened fire on Hanoverian troops.
In under an hour of battle, about 1,300 were killed and roughly 1,250 were Jacobites.
Gosh there are a lot of important #birthdays coming up from the history of #halasandbatchelor – including today’s: Wilhelm Busch, creator of #maxandmoritz was #bornonthisday 1832 – here’s a still from the #animated series by Halas & Batchelor!
#BritishAnimation #Animation
#artistoftheday
"We have to create an #art for #liberation and for life."
Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) #bornonthisday in #WashingtonDC
#artoftheday #artist #artists #fineart #arthistory #americanart #blackart #blackartist #modernart #contemporaryart #illustrator #illustration
Take a look at some of the paintings sold #OTD in 1891 – recorded in the first editions of La Gazette Drouot:
1.Rosa Bonheur, Haymaking @CFontainebleau
2.Camille Corot, Morning @MuseeOrsay
3.Jean-Léon Gérôme, The Mosque
4.Felix Ziem, Venice
#OnThisDayInArtHistory
Born #OnThisDay in 1452: #LeonardodaVinci (1452-1519)
Portrait of a woman in profile, ca. 1485-90
#DaVinci #ItalianRenaissance
Remembering the wonderful #ElizabethMontgomery on her birthday. Unforgettable as Samantha in the beloved fantasy sitcom #bewitched! Have you seen #WandaVision?They paid a wonderful homage to that show.
#classictv #samantha #endora #bornonthisday #fanart #alejandromogolloart
Born #OnThisDay in 1863: Hungarian-born painter #VilmaLwoffParlaghy (1863-1923)
Portrait of Katherine Quick-Nissen (1862-1930), 1922
#LwoffParlaghy #HungarianArt #WomenArtists
NordseeMuseum Husum
Born #onthisday1452 Leonardo da Vinci #artoftheday genius #painter #sculptor #architect inventor military engineer #draughtsman & Italian Renaissance intellectual renowned for sublime The Last Supper & Mona Lisa epitomised Renaissance man studied laws of science & nature
Born #OnThisDay in 1803: Austro-Hungarian painter #FriedrichvonAmerling (1803-87)
Portrait of Countess Julie von Woyna, 1832
#Amerling #AustrianArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1803: Austro-Hungarian painter #FriedrichvonAmerling (1803-87)
Portrait of Rosalia Hermann, 1872
#Amerling #AustrianArt
Happy Birthday Buffy! SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR was born #onthisday in 1977! ⚰️
Born #OnThisDay in 1803: Austro-Hungarian painter #FriedrichvonAmerling (1803-87)
Portrait of Theodor Alconière, 1836
#Amerling #AustrianArt
#OnThisDay in 1561, as the sun rose over Nuremberg, the residents described seeing an aerial battle take place in its glare — the erratic dance of orbs, crosses, cylinders and a crash-landing beyond the city. An early sighting of alien #UFO? https://t.co/PaGP8S57Eu #OTD
‘Pan’ 1899 (Low. R)
The Judgement of Paris, 1893 (Up. R)
Paintings by Russian painter Mikhail Vrubel (Left early 1900's), who passed away #Onthisday 1910 in St. Petersburg. #History #art #OTD