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"Next to excellence is the appreciation of it." ✒ English novelist #WilliamMakepeaceThackeray, author of "Vanity Fair", passed away #onthisday 24 December 1863. #Literature
#TodayInMystery 1688
Catholic James II/VII flees to #France after his officers defect, effectively abdicating the throne to Protestants William & Mary. The Glorious Revolution forever affirmed the primacy of #Parliament over the monarchy.
#todayinhistory #history #onthisday #otd
#artoftheday
"In our world of unprecedented and supreme scientific #progress, we are bound to create #art that anticipates this as well as reacts to it."
Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) #bornonthisday in #Cleveland
#artist #artists #fineart #arthistory #modernart #americanart #botd
Born #OnThisDay in 1769: Irish painter #MartinArcherShee (1769-1850)
Portrait of King #WilliamIV (1765-1837), ca. 1800
#Shee #IrishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1769: Irish painter #MartinArcherShee (1769-1850)
Portrait of Major O'Shea of the Loyal Cork Legion, 1798
#Shee #IrishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1769: Irish painter #MartinArcherShee (1769-1850)
Self-portrait, 1794
#Shee #IrishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1777: #AlexanderI (1777-1825), Tsar of Russia
Portrait by #VladimirBorovikovsky (1757-1825), 1802-3
#Romanov #АлександрПавлович
Born #onthisday1883 Janet Cumbrae-Stewart Australian #painter taught by Frederick McCubbin & Exhibited with Victorian Artists Society & member of Melbourne Society of Women Painters Spent 1920s & 1930s painting & exhibiting in Italy France & Britain Returned to Australia in 1939
Karl Freund's THE MUMMY, starring Boris Karloff as ancient Egyptian prince Imhotep, was released #OnThisDay in 1932.
Born #OnThisDay in 1702: Swiss painter & pastellist #JeanÉtienneLiotard (1702-89)
Portrait of Archduchess #MariaAmaliaofAustria (1746-1804), Duchess of Parma, 1762
#Liotard #SwissArt #GenevanArt #ChildrenInArt
#Habsburg
Born #OnThisDay in 1702: Swiss painter & pastellist #JeanÉtienneLiotard (1702-89)
Portrait of Archduchess #MariaChristinaofAustria (1742-98), Duchess of Teschen, 1762
#Liotard #SwissArt #GenevanArt
#Habsburg
Born #OnThisDay in 1702: Swiss painter & pastellist #JeanÉtienneLiotard (1702-89)
Portrait of Count Wenzel Anton Kaunitz (1711-94), 1762
#Liotard #SwissArt #GenevanArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1702: Swiss painter & pastellist #JeanÉtienneLiotard (1702-89)
Portrait of Wilhelmina Hillegonda Schuyt, 1757
#Liotard #SwissArt #GenevanArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1702: Swiss painter & pastellist #JeanÉtienneLiotard (1702-89)
Portrait of a Young Girl with Hyacinths, ca. 1750-5
#Liotard #SwissArt #GenevanArt #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1702: Swiss painter & pastellist #JeanÉtienneLiotard (1702-89)
Portrait of Anne-Marie Fromaget (ca.1713-1788), Madame François Tronchin, 1758
#Liotard #SwissArt #GenevanArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1702: Swiss painter & pastellist #JeanÉtienneLiotard (1702-89)
Portrait drawing of Marc Liotard-Sarasin
#Liotard #SwissArt #GenevanArt
English entomologist John Westwood was born #onthisday 1805. We're restoring & opening the Pre-Raphaelite Westwood Room to the public for the first time. https://t.co/qGyZVtYo19
Artistically talented, he’d have loved a gift from our shop https://t.co/cBayZIcLJ9 @HeritageFundUK
"Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs."
#OnThisDay in #Film #History 22 December 1965, Sir #DavidLean's classic epic DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, based on the Boris Pasternak novel, premiered in New York.
"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality." ✒ Beloved children's writer and illustrator @BeatrixPotter passed away #onthisday 1943. #Art #Illustration #Literature #BeatrixPotter
Born #onthisday1960 Jean Michel Bisquiat gritty street-smart #graffitiart successfully transcended "downtown" origins to blaze across international art gallery circuit emerging as 1 of most celebrated & most commercial American "naif" painters of #Neo-Expressionist movement …