the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 was passed allowing Catholics to sit in
the Duke of Wellington worked tirelessly to ensure passage in the House of Lords, and threatened to resign as Prime Minister if the King did not give Royal Assent.

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Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance, Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, known as Raphael was born on this day in 1483.

What's your favourite of Raphael’s work?

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in 1850 a Russian landscape painter Fyodor Vasilyev was born.

Self portrait, 1873.

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in 1864 a Russian impressionist sculptor Anna Golubkina was born.

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