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"Next to excellence is the appreciation of it." ✒ English novelist author of "Vanity Fair", passed away 24 December 1863.

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1688
Catholic James II/VII flees to after his officers defect, effectively abdicating the throne to Protestants William & Mary. The Glorious Revolution forever affirmed the primacy of over the monarchy.

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"In our world of unprecedented and supreme scientific we are bound to create that anticipates this as well as reacts to it."

Dorothy Dehner (1901–1994) in

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Born in 1769: Irish painter (1769-1850)

Portrait of King (1765-1837), ca. 1800

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Born in 1769: Irish painter (1769-1850)

Portrait of Major O'Shea of the Loyal Cork Legion, 1798

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Born in 1769: Irish painter (1769-1850)

Self-portrait, 1794

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Born Janet Cumbrae-Stewart Australian 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

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Karl Freund's THE MUMMY, starring Boris Karloff as ancient Egyptian prince Imhotep, was released in 1932.

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Born in 1702: Swiss painter & pastellist (1702-89)

Portrait of Archduchess (1746-1804), Duchess of Parma, 1762


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Born in 1702: Swiss painter & pastellist (1702-89)

Portrait of Archduchess (1742-98), Duchess of Teschen, 1762


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Born in 1702: Swiss painter & pastellist (1702-89)

Portrait of Count Wenzel Anton Kaunitz (1711-94), 1762

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Born in 1702: Swiss painter & pastellist (1702-89)

Portrait of Wilhelmina Hillegonda Schuyt, 1757

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Born in 1702: Swiss painter & pastellist (1702-89)

Portrait of a Young Girl with Hyacinths, ca. 1750-5

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Born in 1702: Swiss painter & pastellist (1702-89)

Portrait of Anne-Marie Fromaget (ca.1713-1788), Madame François Tronchin, 1758

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Born in 1702: Swiss painter & pastellist (1702-89)

Portrait drawing of Marc Liotard-Sarasin

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English entomologist John Westwood was born 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

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"Oh, what a love it was, utterly free, unique, like nothing else on earth! Their thoughts were like other people's songs."

in 22 December 1965, Sir classic epic DOCTOR ZHIVAGO, based on the Boris Pasternak novel, premiered in New York.

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"Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality." ✒ Beloved children's writer and illustrator passed away 1943.

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Born Jean Michel Bisquiat gritty street-smart successfully transcended "downtown" origins to blaze across international art gallery circuit emerging as 1 of most celebrated & most commercial American "naif" painters of movement …

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