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Born #OnThisDay in 1798: Archduchess #ClementinaofAustria (1798-1881), Princess of Salerno as wife of Leopold of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
Portrait as a child by Joseph Hickel (1736-1807), ca. 1800s
#Habsburg #ChildrenInArt
Reggia di Caserta
🌄 Porte-feuille instructif et amusant pour la jeunesse: .
Àvienne, Chez Antoine Pichler, 1807.
🌄https://t.co/fiWOviOPWc
Le Brun continued to travel & paint in London (1803) & Geneva (1807 & 1808) Portrait of Louisa, Queen of Prussia (nd), Duchess of Polignac (nd) & Self-Portrait (1808). Her self-portrait is of a modern woman, a sense of self & an artist who succeeded on her own terms.
Once her name was removed from a list of counter-revolutionaries she was able to return home (1802). Queen of Naples & her Daughter (1807), Portrait of Madame de Staël (1809) & Portrait of Angelica Catalani (nd). Her work is more classical reflecting the now fashionable style
Sacred Egyptian Bean — one of the many exquisite illustrative plates to be found in Robert John Thornton's "The Temple of Flora" (1807).
Read more in our Martin Kemp essay here: https://t.co/SOboV41G6h
And see our Temple of Flora prints for sale here: https://t.co/XkcvZo1qro
It's been more than a bit blustery here in Great Yarmouth with the ongoing weather #StormCiara #StormDennis
It's reminds us of our amazing shipwreck paintings that show the power of weather in its full force.
Saving a Crew near GY Pier, 1830
The 'Snipe' Gunbrig aground at GY 1807
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins was #BornOnThisDay in 1807. #Artist & #sculptor, known for the #dinosaurs in Crystal Palace Park in London. The #SpecialCollections in #ZSLLibrary includes a few original #paintings by Hawkins.
#SciArt #BOTD #OTD
Born #OnThisDay in 1761: German-Baltic noble, salonnière and diplomat #DorotheavonMedem (1761-1821), Duchess of Courland
Portrait by #AngelicaKauffman (1741-1807), 1785
#DorotheaofCourland #DorotheavonKurland #WomenArtists
Born #OnThisDay in 1754: Charles Maurice de #Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838), French politician under #LouisXVI, #Napoleon, #LouisXVIII & #LouisPhilippe
Portrait by Pierre-Paul #Prudhon (1758-1823), 1807
#FrenchArt
#古楽の楽しみ きょうは聴けるかわからないけれど、ひとまずロシアホルンなるものの絵図はお届けしておきますね…Wikimedia Commonsより。左は1803年、右は1807年、いずれもフォミーンの『オルフェイとエフリヂカ』(←ロシア語劇なので本来こんなタイトル)とそう年代的にも離れてない絵。
Woman Resting Her Head on a Book, 1770, by #AngelicaKauffmann (#AngelicaKauffman, #AngelikaKauffmann, Swiss, 1741-1807). Held at the @artinstitutechi, https://t.co/Nkktgk2E4h #womenartists #artherstory
New Post: Morning Discussion #1807 https://t.co/bbPynDlMsy #brony #mlp #Mylittlepony
Gillray satire from December 1807 showing the perils of going hunting carrying too much ballast
One of my fav portraits @metmuseum Esp. like how her red hair is artfully braided across her brow & held in place with a curving pearl comb. "Mrs. Robert Dickey (Anne Brown)" by John Wesley Jarvis, 1807-10 https://t.co/nv0ZfWorHx
#BornOnThisDay 'quinologist' John Eliot Howard (1807-1883) - expert in botany and chemistry of #cinchona, #quinine, government advisor and collector of many of @KewScience specimens. https://t.co/YSdzg7LMfk