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2 mai 1759 : Décès de Christophe Huet II, peintre animalier français.
Il fut surtout connu pour ses sujets animaliers bien qu'il réalisa également des scènes de genre et des portraits.
1 et 2 : Porte étendard (détail) Grande Singerie à @chantillydomain
Is not this the witching time of night? The waters murmur, and fall with more than mortal music, and spirits of peace walk abroad to calm the agitated breast. Eternity is in these moments.
—Mary Wollstonecraft, born #OTD 1759
#Romanticism #MaryWollstonecraft #Wollstonecraft
"Strengthen the female mind by enlarging it, and there will be an end to blind obedience." Today in Mighty Girl history, British writer and philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft, one of the first pioneers for women's rights, was born in 1759. https://t.co/8fWGVK4cvL
Today (like most days) is for celebrating Mary Wollstonecraft, author and advocate of women's rights, born #OTD in 1759
«Η απλότητα και η ειλικρίνεια συμβαδίζουν καθώς προέρχονται από την αγάπη για την αλήθεια». - Μαίρη Γουόλστονκραφτ (Mary Wollstonecraft, 27 Απριλίου 1759 - 10 Σεπτεμβρίου 1797) | #Painting : #CayetanodeArquerBuigas #books #book #syrtaripubs #syrtaribooks #ekdoseissyrtari
François Baillairgé.1759-1830. Homme vu de dos,brandissant un fouet d'après 'Le Martyre de Saint André'.1778-1781. Sanguine sur papier. Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec.
Pierre-Joseph Redouté (10 July 1759 – 19 June 1840), was a painter and botanist from Belgium, known for his watercolours of roses, lilies and other flowers at Malmaison, many of which were published as large, color stipple engravings.
Born #OnThisDay in 1749: French Painter #AdélaïdeLabilleGuiard (1749-1803)
Presumed Portrait of Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles, Marquise de Lafayette (1759-1807), 1790
#LabilleGuiard #WomenArtists #FrenchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1758: English portrait painter #JohnHoppner (1758-1810)
Portrait of the Right Honourable #WilliamPitt the Younger (1759-1806), after 1804
#Hoppner #BritishArt
Flowers and Plants of the Four Seasons, by Yamaguchi Soken (1759-1818)
“Honor women! They trace and weave
Heavenly roses in terrestrial life,
They trace the happy bonds of love.
And in the grace of your decent veils
Watch over the eternal fire
Beautiful feelings with a blessed hand. ”
SCHILLER 1759-1805
England’s greatest 18th C painter is represented by some of his most moving works - paintings of his daughters. Gainsborough (The Painter’s Daughters, 1756; 1759-61 & Mr & Mrs Andrews, c1750)
#Blog 'A Woman of her Own Making', on early #feminist Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797), author of 'A Vindication of the Rights of Woman': https://t.co/sPTJJuyuIZ
#WomensHistoryMonth
In 1759 the family moved to fashionable Bath to gain more lucrative sitters. He took time to study Van Dyck & the results were magnificent. Countless of Howe (1764), Lord Vernon (1767) & the famous Blue Boy (1770). The latter was his successful challenge to Van Dyck
@bgv_online @Spiros209 @BrindusaB1 @dianadep1 @Karacyr_1970 @barrywyman2356 @LuciaTassan @LunaLeso @ampomata @maype7 @alleosa @maluisa_3 @marialves53 @lissablu68 @marmelyr @Marmarsua @CristianeGLima @luribea68 @yuliashadesign ¡Muchas gracias Klaus!
Ludovike Simanowiz 🇩🇪 (1759-1827)
"Self Portrait with Regine Vossler"
c. 1795
January 1st, 1759 is Roman Christopher Christian from "The Sinner's Bible"
We can chart the growth of the two Gainsborough girls through his art in magnificent images. Quin, a notorious bawd, famous actor & character was the artist’s best friend. He was from Clare. The Artist’s Daughters (1759-61), James Quin (1760-3) & the Artist’s Daughters (1763-4)