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Born #OnThisDay in 1703: French painter #FrançoisBoucher (1703-70)
Portrait of #MadamedePompadour (1721-64), 1756
#Boucher #FrenchArt #Rococo
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Born #OnThisDay in 1703: French painter #FrançoisBoucher (1703-70)
Portrait of #AlexandrineLeNormantdÉtiolles (1744-54), daughter of #MadamedePompadour, 1749
#Boucher #FrenchArt #Rococo #ChildrenInArt
#OnThisDay 29 September 1654, Oliver Cromwell narrowly escaped death or serious injury during a coaching accident in Hyde Park, the crash also causing a loaded pistol in his pocket to go off! Equestrian portrait of Cromwell c.1657 in our collection. #OTD #17thCentury
Born #onthisday1518 Tintoretto Italian #Mannerist #painter & masterful exponent of the Venetian Renaissance school Renowned for the boldness & dynamism of his brushwork & speed he worked at Known as Il Furioso (The Furious) work is characterised by dramatic gestures muscular …
Born #OnThisDay in 1597: Southern Netherlandish painter active in Italy #JustusSustermans (1597-1681)
Portrait of #GalileoGalilei (1564-1642), ca. 1640
#Sustermans
Born #OnThisDay in 1601: #LouisXIII (1601-43), King of France
Portrait by #SimonVouet (1590-1649), 1630s
#Bourbon
Died #OnThisDay 1719 "without a groan" George Smalridge, bishop of Bristol.
Very wrong, but always struggle not to equate him with von Smallhausen of Allo Allo fame...
#HistParl #twitterstorians
American folk hero #DanielBoone died #onthisday in 1820. #USA #history #trivia
The #Welsh landscape painter Thomas Jones was born in #Cefnllys, #Radnorshire #Wales #onthisday 1742 https://t.co/Pq7INqP9co #WelshHistory
#Words #art #GN
“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.”
#BornOnThisDay William Faulkner
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#OnThisDay 23 years ago, September 25, 1999 - The episode "Earth Mover" aired on television.
Directed by Dan Riba
Story by Stan Berkowitz & Alan Burnett
Written by Stan Berkowitz #BatmanBeyond
#ThisDayInMetal #OnThisDay #HeavyMetal
Sept 25th 1972 #BlackSabbath released the GREAT album "Vol. 4"
What’s your favourite song off the album?
Born #onthisday1899 Sir William Dobell OBE iconic 20th-century Australian #portrait #landscape #artist Won Archibald Prize for portraits 3 times (1943 1948 & 1959) Won Wynne Prize for landscape (1948) 1st solo exhibition in 1944 Unique style adapted 2 reflect character of subject
𝔗𝔥𝔢𝔯𝔢'𝔰 𝔟𝔢𝔢𝔫 𝔞 𝔤𝔯𝔞𝔳𝔢 𝔪𝔦𝔰𝔲𝔫𝔡𝔢𝔯𝔰𝔱𝔞𝔫𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔤...
Tim Burton’s CORPSE BRIDE was first released #onthisday in 2005! 🐛
Happy 6th Anniversary of The Loud House episode “April Fools Rules” 🏡🧡🎉 it aired on @Nickelodeon in September 23, 2016 🏠🎊🤡 I Love how Luan pranks the entire household every year on April Fools' Day. 💕🏡 #TheLoudHouse #OnThisDay #Happy6thAnniversary
Born #OnThisDay in 1628: Swedish painter #DavidKlöckerEhrenstrahl (1628-98)
Portrait of Anna Dorotea of Holstein-Gottorp (1640-1713)
#Ehrenstrahl #SwedishArt #DogsInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1734: American painter #MatthewPratt (1734-1805)
Portrait of Cadwallader Colden and His Grandson Warren De Lancey, ca. 1772
#Pratt #AmericanArt
#OnThisDay 1889 died Wilkie Collins, English novelist, short story writer, and playwright. https://t.co/1Hez7VttFV #LibriVox #audiobook
OnThisDay 1874 Gustav #Holst, English #composer, born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England