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"To see the world in a grain of sand, and to see heaven in a wild flower, hold infinity in the palm of your hands, and eternity in an hour." ✒ Ingenious British poet and artist #WilliamBlake was born #onthisday 28 November 1757. #Art #Poetry #Literature
Born #onthisday1757 William Blake English #poet #painter & #printmaker Largely unrecognised during his lifetime Blake now considered a seminal figure in history of poetry & visual arts of the Romantic Age Major works inc. Newton (1795-1805) Satan (1789) Blake’s Cottage (c1804-10)
#OnThisDay in 1821, Hercules Brabazon Brabazon was born.
Image: Hercules Brabazon Brabazon (1821-1906) ‘Garden Scene’, 1900, watercolour on paper, 17.5cm x 25.5cm, John Pennefather Bequest 1987.
#museumfromhome #butlergallery #IrishMuseumsOnline #arthistory #watercolour
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Born #OnThisDay in 1640: #BarbaraPalmer, née Villiers (1640-1709), Duchess of Cleveland, Countess of Castlemaine, mistress of #CharlesII
Portrait by #JohnMichaelWright (1617-94), ca. 1670
#BarbaraVilliers #Stuart
#OnThisDay (26th Nov.) back in 1996, episode 9 of Martian Successor Nadescio was broadcast in Japan and saw Ms. Erina pulling no punches when calling out Yurika for spacing out during a mission.
Read about Nadescio at our site👇
https://t.co/iK60yLIylj #tbt
Died #OnThisDay in 1670: Dutch painter #JacobvanLoo (1614-70)
Portrait of the Countess of Goldstein, 1655
#DutchBaroque
Born #OnThisDay in 1847: #DagmarofDenmark (1847-1928), Empress of Russia as #MariaFeodorovna as spouse of #AlexanderIII
Hand-coloured photographic portrait by #CharlesBergamasco (1830-96), 1883
#Glücksburg #Romanov
Born #OnThisDay in 1847: #DagmarofDenmark (1847-1928), Empress of Russia as #MariaFeodorovna as spouse of #AlexanderIII
Portrait by Vladimir #Makovsky (1846-1920), 1912
#Glücksburg #Romanov
Born #OnThisDay in 1847: #DagmarofDenmark (1847-1928), Empress of Russia as #MariaFeodorovna as spouse of #AlexanderIII
Portrait by Vassily Pavlovich #Khudoyarov (1829/31-92)
#Glücksburg #Romanov
Born #OnThisDay in 1847: #DagmarofDenmark (1847-1928), Empress of Russia as #MariaFeodorovna as spouse of #AlexanderIII
Portrait with sister Alexandra by by Franz-Xaver #Winterhalter (1805-73), 1868
#Glücksburg #Romanov #SistersInArt
"Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time." ✒ Legendary cartoonist #CharlesMSchulz, creator of the beloved #Peanuts (@Snoopy), was born #onthisday 26 November 1922. #Art #Comics
Born #OnThisDay in 1609: #HenriettaMariaofFrance (1609-69), Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland as spouse of #CharlesI
Portrait by an Unknown Artist, 17th Century
#HenrietteMarie #Bourbon #Stuart
#OnThisDay 25 November 1644 Oliver Cromwell denounced the Earl of Manchester's leadership of the Eastern Association army in Parliament. The ensuing debates led to reforms in Parliament’s armies and increased professionalisation of its officers. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD
#BornOnThisDay
Tanti auguri ad Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, nato oggi nel 1864 ad Albi, in Francia.
#arte #HenriDeToulouseLautrec #art #France
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who was born #onthisday in 1864, was a prolific painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator and one of the most well-known artists of the Post-Impressionist period. https://t.co/FXGsxTOvD7
Born #OnThisDay in 1745: #MariaLuisaofSpain (1745-92), Holy Roman Empress as spouse of Emperor #LeopoldII
Portrait by workshop of #AntonvonMaron (1733-1808), ca. 1772
#Bourbon #Habsburg
Born #OnThisDay in 1745: #MariaLuisaofSpain (1745-92), Holy Roman Empress as spouse of Emperor #LeopoldII
Portrait as a child by #GiuseppeBonito (1707-89), ca. 1748
#Bourbon #Habsburg #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1724: #MariaAmaliaofSaxony (1724-60), Queen of Spain as spouse of #CarlosIII
Posthumous portrait by #AntonRaphaelMengs (1728-79), ca. 1761
#Wettin #Bourbon
"This extraordinary Man never tastes either Wine or Spirits; takes but one Meal a day & every Morning plunges into an Ice Bath", a 1799 British print incredulously describes famed 🇷🇺 general Alexander Suvorov, born #OnThisDay 290 years ago (prints from @britishmuseum collection)
@arteeblog @albertopetro2 @BrindusaB1 @AlessandraCicc6 @lagatta4739 @claudioborlotto @Make_u2_happy @smarucci461 @marmelyr @MariangelaSant8 Good morning dear Betty and everyone. Thank you so much for this wonderful sharing ❤
#ArteYArt
#BornOnThisDay
Henri de Toulouse - Lautrec 🎨
#ArtLovers #ScrivoArte #Artwit #ontheblog #TweeterWorld
#ToulouseLautrec #OnThisDate
#ODT