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Born #OnThisDay in 1809: English painter #GeorgeRichmond (1809-96)
Portrait of William Wilberforce (1759-1833), 1833
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Born #OnThisDay in 1809: English painter #GeorgeRichmond (1809-96)
Portrait of King #EdwardVII (1841-1910), 1858
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Born #OnThisDay in 1809: English painter #GeorgeRichmond (1809-96)
Portrait of Edward Matthew Ward (1816-1879), 1859
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Born #OnThisDay in 1809: English painter #GeorgeRichmond (1809-96)
Portrait of Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), 1849
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Born #OnThisDay in 1809: English painter #GeorgeRichmond (1809-96)
Portrait of Henry Kater (1777-1835), 1831
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Born #OnThisDay in 1809: English painter #GeorgeRichmond (1809-96)
Portrait of Mr Beilby Porteous Hodgson (1808-1889), 1836
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Born #OnThisDay in 1809: English painter #GeorgeRichmond (1809-96)
Portrait of #CharlotteBrontë (1816-1855), 1850
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Born #OnThisDay in 1727: #MaximilianIIIJoseph (1727-77), Elector of Bavaria
Portrait Attributed to #GeorgDesmarées (1697-1776), ca. 1750
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Born #OnThisDay in 1727: #MaximilianIIIJoseph (1727-77), Elector of Bavaria
Portrait Attributed to #GeorgDesmarées (1697-1776), ca. 1750
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"Time is a vindictive bandit to steal the beauty of our former selves." 🎨 The great Italian Renaissance master painter #Raphael Sanzio was born #onthisday 28 March 1483. #Art #History #Painting
Born #OnThisDay in 1845 was Wilhelm Röntgen, the German physicist who first identified X-rays, for which he won the first Nobel Prize in Physics in1 901. The X-ray below shows the hand of Lord Kelvin, complete with signet ring, and was taken at the Royal Society in 1896. #Physics
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Ethel Léontine Gabain (1883–1950) #bornonthisday in #LeHavre
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#OnThisDay in 1923, the BBC broadcast the first daily weather forecast over the radio. Find out more about the history of the science of weather and the early innovations that laid the foundations of modern #meteorology with our @googlearts exhibit: https://t.co/My1nl2n96K
Born #OnThisDay in 1716: Russian painter #AlexeiAntropov (1716-95)
Portrait of Dmitry Ivanovich Buturlin (1703-90), 1763
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Born #OnThisDay in 1716: Russian painter #AlexeiAntropov (1716-95)
Portrait of Anastasia Izmaylova, 1759
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Born #OnThisDay in 1716: Russian painter #AlexeiAntropov (1716-95)
Portrait of Tsar #PeterIII of Russia (1728-1762), 1762
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Marc Brunel's Thames Tunnel opened #onthisday 1843. The first tunnel in the world to go under a river. Read this extract from his diary to find why he was unhappy about the choice of opening day. 1/2
Born #onthisday1908 Jean Bellette Australian #Modernist #artist Frequently painted scenes influenced by Greek tragedies of Sophocles & Euripides & Homer’s epics Only woman to have won 2x Sulman Prize For Whom the Bell Tolls (1942) & Iphigenia in Tauris (1944)
Born #onthisday1916 Dr. S.M. Pandit Indian #Realist school #painter & one of most popular #artists of his time Topics varied from classical Indian literature & contemporary cinema Infused rare blend of artistic virtuosity & Bollywood glamour in portrayal of romantic characters
James VI of Scotland becomes King James I of England #OnThisDay in 1603 after the death of Queen Elizabeth I. This engraved portrait of James I based on Van Dyck's painting, was printed in 1720s [Prints 009/044].