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Born #onthisday1758 Carle Vernet French #painter & #lithographer Won Grand Prix Genre #landscapes hunting scenes races, & lithography proved popular Drawings of Napoleon’s Italian campaign were acclaimed as was his Morning of Austerlitz Awarded Legion of Honour by Napoleon
Born #onthisday1756 Thomas Rowlandson #historyofart English popular #caricaturist of social life John Bull Smollett Goldsmith Sterne #illustrator Primarily employed by art publisher Rudolph Ackermann ‘The Schoolmaster's Tour’ (1809) most popular of Rowlandson’s works Tour of Dr…
Born #onthisday1756 Cornelius van Spaendonck Dutch #artist Head of Sèvres porcelain works Became member Académie des Beaux-Arts (1789) Prdeominantly #painted in oils & gouache & is remembered for his lush evocative #stilllifes of flowers Left 29 paintings in studio at his death
Born #onthisday1757 William Blake English #poet #painter & #printmaker Largely unrecognised during his lifetime Blake now considered a seminal figure in history of poetry & visual arts of the Romantic Age Major works inc. Newton (1795-1805) Satan (1789) Blake’s Cottage (c1804-10)
Cave compositions, pencil on paper #drawingaday2017 #drawingday175
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Mighty Devilsaur - Isle of Thunder
#azerothin365days #dailysketch #worldofwarcraft #azeroth #anubaranco #leveling #pandaria #fanart #day175