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📢 Choose the art you want to see in our upcoming exhibition: 'Your Art Gallery – Paintings Chosen by You'! Which idyllic scene speaks to you?
(Left) 👈A. Pascitti, The Duet, 1873
(Right) 👉 Luis Paret y Alcazar, A Picnic at a Country Inn, 1772-73
VOTE BELOW!
🌸 Ioannis Antonii Scopoli . . Flora Carniolica
[Vienna]: Impensis Ioannis Pauli Krauss, bibliopolae Vindobonensis., 1772.
https://t.co/QuBQfqIoRu
Two artists who revolutionized art in Britain share a birthday #OTD: Joseph Wilton (b. 1772) and Sir Joshua Reynolds (b. 1773). Each spent several years in Italy studying ancient, Renaissance, and modern art of the time.
More: https://t.co/KKC5ZIOFgr & https://t.co/0cLgS4ovd5
Born #OnThisDay in 1789: Infanta #MaríaIsabellaofSpain (1789-1848), Queen of the Two Sicilies as spouse of Francis I, daughter of #CarlosIV
Portrait by #VicentLópezPortaña (1772-1850), 1829
#Bourbon
🐘 Verzameling van uitlandsche en zeldzaame vogelen: .
Amsterdam: J.C. Sepp, 1772-1781.
https://t.co/oODcNO6zHM
The Pre-Arranged Flight, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c. 1772-1773 https://t.co/GZ4inbuIbV #jeanhonoréfragonard #museumarchive
#TodayInMystery 1772
After HMS Gaspee runs aground chasing a smuggler off the #RhodeIsland coast, 80 men loot the ship before setting it aflame. The affair presaged the #Boston Tea Party and other #protests against British rule in colonial America.
#truecrime #history #OnThisDay
#TodayInMystery 1772
After HMS Gaspee runs aground chasing a smuggler off the #RhodeIsland coast, 80 men loot the ship before setting it aflame. The incident presaged the #Boston Tea Party and other #protests against British rule in colonial America.
#truecrime #TodayInHistory
Another lighthouse engineer anniversary - Robert Stevenson was born #onthisday 1772. Engineer to the Northern Lighthouse Board. His biggest project, the Bell Rock lighthouse was inspired by the Eddystone lighthouse and developed Smeaton's methods further.
"A minister of state passed four & twenty hours at a public gaming table so absorbed in play that during the whole time he had no subsistence but a bit of beef between two slices of toasted bread which he ate without ever quitting the game" P-J Grosley 1772
#dedication #Sandwich
@mtascon “La tienda de Geniani”, de Luis Paret. 1772. En @Museo_Lazaro
Born #OnThisDay in 1741: American painter #CharlesWillsonPeale (1741-1827)
Portrait of Portrait of John and Elizabeth Lloyd Cadwalader and their Daughter Anne, 1772
#Peale #AmericanArt #ChildrenInArt #FamilyPortraits
Born #OnThisDay 7Apr1772 F M Charles Fourier, a French philosopher, early socialist thinker, and one of the founders of #utopiansocialism. Some of Fourier's social and moral views, held to be radical in his lifetime, are mainstream in modern society. #18thc
April's Life Drawing class has been postponed 25th April 12-3pm. Tickets will be released on our eventbrite page on 11th April. Set yourself a reminder to book here: https://t.co/DinlPs51Ne.
Image: Man with Two Dead Women. Henry Fuseli, 1772.
Botanical illustration and the park: Exotic botany illustrated : in thirty-five figures of elegant Chinese and American shrubs and plants, many of them new..... by John Hill, 1772, BHL/Harvard, https://t.co/PnXLizBYN5
The Palestinian-born Rabbi Raphael Haijim Isaac Karigal (1733-1777), painted in 1772 by Samuel King during his extended visit to Newport, Rhode Island. Descended from Iberian Sephardim who fled the Inquisition and settled in Hebron, Karigal was incredibl… https://t.co/32P1hBrZJZ