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Born #OnThisDay in 1818: French painter #AnneVallayerCoster (1744-1818)
Presumed portrait of #MadameVictoire of France (1733-99), 1779-81
#VallayerCoster #FrenchArt #WomenArtists
Born #onthisday1815 Thomas Couture French history #painter & teacher exhibited historical & genre pictures at Salon de Paris won several medals Innovative technique garnered significant & drew Government & Church commissions for murals during late 1840s to 1850s
Born #OnThisDay in 1790: French painter #JeanJosephVaudechamp (1790-1866)
Portrait of Two Children, Probably the Sons of M. Almeric Berthier, comte de LaSalle, 1841
#Vaudechamp #FrenchArt #ChildrenInArt
#OnThisDay in 211, Geta was murdered on the orders of his brother Caracalla; he died in the arms of his mother Julia Domna
Born #onthisday1924 Clifton Pugh AO Australian #artist German #Expressionism strong influence one of Australia's most renowned & commercially successful #painters won Archibald Prize 3 times Best known for #landscapes & #portraits constant theme nature’s savage cyclical rhythms
Born #onthisday1904 Paul Cadmus #etcher & #painter Widely recognized 4 egg tempera paintings depicting urban settings & gritty social interactions Sailors & Floozies = art as satire Created highly finished #drawings of #nude male figures combining eroticism with social commentary
#OnThisDay 13 December 1643 in a surprise attack, Sir William Waller's Parliamentarian forces stormed Alton in Hampshire. The Royalist defenders conducted a last stand in the Church of St Lawrence, which still has scars of the fighting today. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD
Born #onthisday1871 Emily Carr Canadian #artist painter drew inspiration from Pacific Northwest Coasts’ Indigenous peoples One of first Canadian #painters to explore #Modernist & #PostModernist style Shift from Indigenous themes to landscapes particularly forests won recognition
"A work of art comes only from inside a human being. "
Edvard Munch, Norwegian painter 🎂 born #OTD #OnThisDay #BOTD #creativity #inspiration
👇 Melancholy 1893
Marie Louise, daughter of the emperor of Austria, wife of Napoleon, empress of the French, and, from 1816, Duchess of Parma, was born #OnThisDay 1791.
She had a strong passion for botany but above all a boundless love for the violets of Parma.⬇️
On this day in 1978 Superman: The Movie, premiered at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.
#superman #supermanthemovie #christopherreeve #margotkidder #genehackman #marlonbrando #richarddonner #film #movie #seventies #comic #comicbooks #comics #dccomic #onthisday
On This Day in 2001, 2002, 2003 and 2004, 🧡🎄🎉 both classic @Nickelodeon shows has aired their Christmas specials! 🎄🎊🎅
#TheFairlyOddParents #Rugrats #TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius #ChalkZone #FlashbackFriday #OnThisDay #HolidaySpecials #Christmas #Nostalgia
On This Day in 2004, 🎄🎉🎅 the classic @Nickelodeon show, My Life as a Teenage Robot has aired an Christmas special! 🎄🎊🎅
#Throwback #HolidaySpecials #OnThisDay #MyLifeAsATeenageRobot #Nostalgic #ChildhoodMemories #BeKind #Nostalgia #HolidaySpecial #ThrowbackThursday
Died #OnThisDay in 1681: Dutch painter #GerardterBorch the Younger (1617-81)
Portrait of a Lady, ca. 1679
#GerardTerburg #terBorch
Died #OnThisDay in 1681: Dutch painter #GerardterBorch the Younger (1617-81)
Portrait of Hermanna van der Cruysse (1615-1705), ca. 1665-9
#GerardTerburg #terBorch
Born #OnThisDay in 1922: British painter #LucianFreud (1922-2011)
Self-portrait ("Man's Head"), 1963
#Freud #BritishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1922: British painter #LucianFreud (1922-2011)
Portrait of Nathaniel Charles Jacob Rothschild, 1989
#Freud #BritishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1922: British painter #LucianFreud (1922-2011)
Self-portrait ("Reflection"), 1985
#Freud #BritishArt