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Born #OnThisDay in 1792: English painter #JohnLinnell (1792-1882)
Self-portrait, ca. 1860
#Linnell #BritishArt #Victorian
@shashikantips54 @V_and_A @SushmaJansari @DalrympleWill @Andrew007Uk @NayanBasuu @doubledolphin @JAJafri @hemantsarin @Kieran_drake Tipu and Hyder seemed to have engaged the #British imagination of #Colonial Indian history quite a lot.
1780: Battle of Pollilur
1792: Tipu surrendering his 2 sons to Cornwallis
1799: Capture of Seringapatnam.
All events related to the Anglo-Mysore wars.
🇸🇪👑Stockholm, 29 mars 1792: à l'heure de la Révolution française, le roi Gustave III de Suède succombe, 13 jours après avoir reçu un coup de pistolet au bal de l'opéra. Se voulant «despote éclairé», il avait fini par s'aliéner les Grands de son royaume par son esprit désordonné.
John Herschel, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, photographer, inventor & busy father of twelve was born #OTD 1792: "He that on such quest would go must know not fear or failing To coward soul or faithless heart the search were unavailing."
23 février 1792: mort de Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792),
peintre, graveur britannique.
➡️Joshua Reynolds, Autoportrait à la main en visière, 1748.
➡️Les Sœurs Montgomery, 1773.
Out Today: AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 792: VENOM INC Part 2 by @DanSlott @RyanStegman & @ReberVision
OTD 1792: George Rodney died. Commander in the American War of Independence, known for his victory at the Battle of the Saintes in 1782
happy #420 : 1792: France declares war against the "King of Hungary and Bohemia" beginning of French Rev Wars.