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Born #OnThisDay in 1759: #ClotildeofFrance (1759-1802), Queen of Sardinia as spouseof #CharlesEmmanuelIV, granddaughter of #LouisXV
Portrait as child with brother #CharlesX by F-H #Drouais (1727-75), 1763
#MadameClotilde #Bourbon #ChildrenInArt #SiblingsInArt
23 septembre 1763 : Décès d’Hendrik Frans van Lint, peintre de paysage flamand.
Vue de la côte méditerranéenne, huile sur toile
#OtD 20 Sep 1763 Filipina revolutionary anti-colonial leader Gabriela Silang was executed by Spanish authorities. The previous week she attempted to besiege Vigan, but was forced back to Abra, where she was captured.
@BaroneZaza70 @PasqualeTotaro @albertopetro2 @karmendida @angelicadisogno @circeanna @VicoLudovico @CleliaMussari @marijeane3 @FrankCapitone @LunaLeso @lissablu68 @artdielle @claudioborlotto @ValerioLivia @fulviogiuliani @janviertoscan @paoloigna1 ¡Muchas gracias Luigi!
Hendrik Frans van Lint, Flemish painter (1684-1763)
"Classical Landscape"
c. 1749
#Carmontelle (1717-1806). And the Age of Pleasures opens soon at #MuséeCondé @chantillydomain https://t.co/mNn4PhOaG5 #Mozart enfant avec son père et sa sœur' 1763-64 ©RMN-GrandPalais #DomainedeChantilly
Born #OnThisDay in 1719: French painter #CharlesAmédéePhilippevanLoo (1719-95)
Portrait of #FrederickII, King of Prussia (1712-86), 1763-69
#AmédéeVanLoo #VanLoo #FrenchArt
'Has this fellow no feeling of his business? He sings in grave-making'
Hamlet Act 5, Scene 1:17 #ShakespeareSunday
(Fresco by Felix Hölzl, Straubing, 1763)
New sketch for today. Duelling mantids from a 1763 original sketch from (I think) Domenico Angelo
#OtD 8 Jul 1763 General Jeffrey Amherst, commander of British forces in North America, wrote to one of his colonels asking: "Could it not be contrived to send the small pox among the disaffected tribes of Indians? We must [...] reduce them". Learn more: https://t.co/A9vnFS2TLE
Although these two delightful images may resemble paintings, they are in fact tapestries, woven after works by #FrançoisHubertDrouais.
Dated c.1763–4, they were made by the historic #Gobelinsmanufactory.
Discover more on #material in this week’s blog: https://t.co/nHXwm0EcqW
The Statues of Apollo Belvedere, Diana the Huntress and Polyhymnia in a Landscape - Charles Meynier (1763–1832).
AiC Art for the Day - Born June 26: George Morland, British, (1763-1804), The Fortune Teller, n.d.
https://t.co/DRZhZHTDqD
@Tate
Born #OnThisDay in 1763: #JoséphinedeBeauharnais, née Tascher de La Pagerie, aka #EmpressJoséphine, first wife of #Napoleon
Portrait by #AntoineJeanGros (1771-1835), 1808
#Beauharnais #Bonaparte
Musée Masséna, Nice
Born #OnThisDay in 1692: English painter #JosephHighmore (1692-1780)
Portrait of Henry Stebbing (1687-1763), 1757
#Highmore #BritishArt #Georgian
"Cleopatra and the dying Marc Anthony" by Pompeo Batoni (1763), Brest's Museum of Fine Arts.
Cat-slide roof/s in Peppard Common, Oxfordshire. You could have two cats side by side sliding down at once on this double roof (ensure you view the full image, right).
*Sighs with happiness at the thought* @todbooklady @Middletonfox [Slater’s farmhouse here was built in 1763]
1763-64年 パリで出会った華やかで洗練された文化&宝石のようにきらめくシャンパーニュ
パリを訪れたモーツァルト一家の強力な後ろ盾となったのがグリム男爵と愛人のデピネー夫人。演奏会の計らい、ルイ15世、貴族、文化人に引き合わせたり、礼儀作法もアドバイスしました
https://t.co/7eQMHjJl5H