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Born #OnThisDay in 1729: Sophie of Anhalt-Zerbst (1729-96) aka Empress #CatherineII of Russia
Portrait by #VladimirBorovikovsky (1757-1825), 1794
#CatherineTheGreat #Екатери́наВели́кая
#Romanov #Ascania
Sobre Jean-Jacques Lequeu (1757-1826), dibujante visionario de temas arquitectónicos repletos de fantasía 💙 https://t.co/8GEO2f2UgA
22 avril 1757: naissance de Joseph Mathias Grassi, peintre autrichien.
➡️ Autoportait.
➡️Louise de Mecklenburg-Strelitz, 1802.
Born #OnThisDay in 1673: Wilhelmine Amalia of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1673-1742), Holy Roman Empress as the spouse of #JosephI
Portrait by #RosalbaCarriera (1675-1757), 1730
#Hanover #Habsburg
Клод Жозеф Верне. «Ночь, порт в лунном свете». 1757 г. Лувр. Париж. Франция.
#TongueOutTuesday
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Jean-Jacques Lequeu
(1757–1826)
He Sticks Out His Tongue
https://t.co/RY6nSF3iK4
Καλημέρα.Vladimir Lukich Borovikovsky (July 24 1757 – April 6 1825) was a Russian painter.
1757, Edmund Burke wrote what defined at the time, on the aesthetics of #sublime & #beauty influencing an entire genre of painters,poets & writers during what we know as the #Romantic period. FayCollins’ “Lord’s Rake” fulfils such Sublime characteristics. https://t.co/w2bUU5X5CD
Born #OnThisDay in 1745: English painter #JohnRussell (1745-1806)
Portrait of Elizabeth Bannister (née Harpur) (1757-1849), 1799
#BritishArt #Georgian
"The composer" // "Portrait of a Woman, Said to be Madame Charles Simon Favart" (1757)
Birthday in the park: James Sowerby, 1757-1822, naturalist and illustrator........https://t.co/GmreiqYRCU
男性の楽器ハープ…といえば、アイルランドのカロラン(ぎりぎりヘンデルとすれちがっていて、彼のハープ協奏曲の同時代人)のほかウェールズの盲目のハープ奏者ジョン・パリー(1710〜1782)も…彼に捧げられた『吟遊詩人The Bard』という詩(1757)には後年W.ブレイクも絵を寄せた #古楽の楽しみ
アマビエ、神社姫系の妖怪は、宝暦7年(1757)、
津軽の陸奥湾に面した平舘村石崎にも出現した。
これは特に予言はせず、人々は「異形の魚」とも呼んだらしい。
当時の三橋家の記録などにある
Born #OnThisDay in 1720: Infante #PhilipofSpain, Duke of Parma (1720-65), son of King #PhilipV
Portrait with his family by #GiuseppeBaldrighi (1722-1803), 1757
#Bourbon #ChildrenInArt #FamilyPortraits
Galleria nazionale di Parma
Future PM, the 3rd Duke of Grafton, had superb friends in high places from an early age. In 1757, George II told the 21 year old: 'I always honoured and loved your grandfather, and lament his loss. I wish you may be like him; I hear that you are a very good boy.' #LuckyDuke
Reynolds was a fine painter but his priority was in flattering the sitter rather than revealing their psychology. Mrs John Barrington (1757-8), Elizabeth Gunning (1758-9), Duke of Cumberland (1758) & Thomas Reynolds (1758)