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Born #OnThisDay in 1734: American painter #MatthewPratt (1734-1805)
Portrait of Cadwallader Colden and His Grandson Warren De Lancey, ca. 1772
#Pratt #AmericanArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1772: Spanish painter #VicenteLópezPortaña (1772-1850)
Portrait of María Pilar de la Cerda y Marín de Resende (1777-1812), ca. 1795
#SpanishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1772: Spanish painter #VicenteLópezPortaña (1772-1850)
Portrait of Luisa de Prat y Gandiola, later Marchioness of Barbançon
#SpanishArt #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1772: Spanish painter #VicenteLópezPortaña (1772-1850)
Portrait of Luisa Carlotta of the Two Sicilies (1804-44), ca. 1819
#SpanishArt
The Shipwreck by Claude Joseph Vernet (1772)
As the trembling waves
gently took us down
the sea floor collecting our souls
claiming our doomed love
our skeletons settled at the bottom
to forever rest
with the wreckage
of our ship
-C. Pinney
Wright is wonderful in painting the newest science as well as the antique & was one of the most curiosity driven artists. Mr & Mrs Coltman (1771), Miravan breaking open the Tomb of his Ancestors (1772), Self-Portrait (1772-3) & the Earthstopper on the Banks of the Derwent (1773)
🇯🇵『Ukiyo-e Wakoku Keiseki Kyoto Sanjusangen-do no Zu』(浮繪和國景跡京都三拾三軒堂之図) 1772-1781
🖌️『Utagawa Toyoharu』(歌川 豊春)
wiki▶︎ https://t.co/imjwJYIQvC
#通し矢 #Kyoto #京都
Sanjusangen-do in Kyoto,
depicting an archery competition
📢 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.