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Born #OnThisDay in 1736: Swiss painter #AntonGraff (1736-1813)
Portrait of Corona Elisabeth Wilhelmine Schröter, 1787
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Schlossmuseum, Weimar
Born #OnThisDay in 1736: Swiss painter #AntonGraff (1736-1813)
Portrait of Ekaterina Samoylova (1763-1830), 1790s
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Born #OnThisDay in 1736: Swiss painter #AntonGraff (1736-1813)
Portrait of Karl Anton Graff (1774-1832), 1809
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Born #OnThisDay in 1736: Swiss painter #AntonGraff (1736-1813)
Self-portrait, 1813
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Gemäldegalerie der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin
Born #OnThisDay in 1736: Swiss painter #AntonGraff (1736-1813)
Self-portrait, ca. 1808
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Schweizerische Institut für Kunstwissenschaft
Born #OnThisDay in 1630: #EleonoraGonzaga (1630-86), Holy Roman Empress as spouse of #FerdinandIII
Portrait by an Unknown Artist, 1651-7
#Gonzaga #Habsburg
Born #onthisday1901 Sybil Craig Australian #painter Kept a studio on Collins Street Melbourne from 1936 to 1951 Appointed by Australian War memorial as an official war artist & was first woman to paint women working in the munitions’ factories
#OnThisDay 19 years ago, November 17th, 2001: the 3 part episode "Secret Origins" aired on television. The Series premiere of Justice League.
Directed by Butch Lukic and Dan Riba
Written by Rich Fogel #JLReunion
Born #OnThisDay in 1755: #LouisXVIII , King of France (1755-1824)
Portrait by #AntoineJeanGros (1771-1835), ca. 1817
#Bourbon
French inventor and father of canning Nicolas Appert was born #OnThisDay 1749. He was the first to develop a method of preserving food by subjecting it to heat in airtight, sterile containers (glass bottles and then tin cans). This process became known as Appertisation.
November 16: #OnThisDay, one #artist was born...
Francis Danby was an #Irish #painter born #OTD in 1793. He was a part of the #Romantic #art movement & was known for his dramatic #landscape #paintings.
Photo credit: @Tate, "The Deluge" by #FrancisDanby, 1837-39.
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Born #onthisday1901 Sybil Craig Australian #painter Kept a studio on Collins Street Melbourne from 1936 to 1951 Appointed by Australian War memorial as an official war artist & was first woman to paint women working in the munitions’ factories
Born #onthisday1503 Bronzino Florentine #mannerist and court #painter to Cosimo I de’ Medici Grand Duke of Tuscany Bronzino was predominantly a #portraitist but also #painted elegant stylish religious & allegorical subjects inc. his renowned Venus Cupid Folly & Time (c. 1544–45)
Charles Waterhouse, peintre et illustrateur américain, décède #OnThisDay 16 novembre 2013 à 89ans. Ses peintures très réalistes témoignent de la campagne du Pacifique (Iwo Jima) où il combat dans les Marines ou de la guerre du Vietnam en tant que peintre de l'armée. #war #painter
Died #OnThisDay in 1625: Italian painter #SofonisbaAnguissola (ca. 1532-1625)
Portrait of the Artist’s Father Amilcare Anguissola and her siblings Minerva and Astrubale, ca. 1559
#Anguissola #WomenArtists #ChildrenInArt #SiblingsInArt
Nivaagaards Malerisamling
Died #OnThisDay in 1625: Italian painter #SofonisbaAnguissola (ca. 1532-1625)
Self-portrait, 1550s
#Anguissola #WomenArtists
Born #OnThisDay 16Nov1811 John Bright was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade policies. A Quaker, Bright is most famous for battling the Corn Laws. #19thcentury #British
Born #OnThisDay in 1528: #JeanneIII (1528-72), Queen of Navarre, mother of King #HenriIV of France
Portrait drawing by an Unknown French Artist, ca. 1565
#JeannedAlbret #Albret #Bourbon
Born #OnThisDay in 1528: #JeanneIII (1528-72), Queen of Navarre, mother of King #HenriIV of France
Portrait drawing by François #Clouet (ca.1510-72), ca. 1559
#JeannedAlbret #Albret #Bourbon
#Onthisday in 1839, William De Morgan, Artist, inventor, designer, ceramicist, & author was born. If you haven't already, why not take a '360 virtual' tour of the Family of Artists exhibition at @CannonHall1760
Take the tour - https://t.co/vWqNh23gn8
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