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⁦Two posts for the last day of the fabulous ⁩‘s special session for ⁦⁩ The first shows three plates of c. 1755 featuring botanical specimens culled from London‘s Chelsea Physic Garden, expanded under Hans Sloane in 1713

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2020-05-07

"After the return of the Wheat Ear...there is seldom any severe frost," wrote Alex Berger in May, 1755. "When you see the White Wagtail, you may turn your sheep into the fields; and when you see the Wheat Ear, you may sow your grain."

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2020-05-05

Tiepelo was arguably the greatest decorative painter from Italy. He’s best known for his magnificent painted ceilings. In this case it’s a mythological canvas of Apollo pursuing Daphne (c1755/60)

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2020-05-05

Born in 1764: (1764-94), granddaughter of King

Portrait by Élisabeth Louise (1755-1842), ca. 1782

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2020-05-03

Adriaan de Lelie (19 May 1755, Tilburg – 30 November 1820, Amsterdam) was a Dutch painter.

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2020-05-02

04/25　スーパージャンピング地団駄

1755

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2020-04-27

As the first shoots of St. John's Wort and Bryony crept from the earth, Norfolk botanist Benjamin Stillingfleet found Lilac and Cranesbill in flower in 1755.

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2020-04-27

Baronne de Crussol (1785) by Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun [Madame Le Brun] (France, 1755-1842).

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2020-04-26

Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun (1755-1842). Although she's best known for her portraits of Marie Antointette - especially the casual one of the queen looking like a shepherdess -Vigee-Lebrun was also a pioneering self-portraitist: Cindy Sherman waiting to happen! Artist of many faces.

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2020-04-23

C is for Cheese, well to be exact! From Capodimonte cheese seller with a wheel of it, Italy, c. 1755, and in London, you could buy it from Mrs Holt's on the Strand, along with some Genoese Trade card after Hogarth, engr. c. 1794 by Anna Maria Ireland

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2020-04-22

18 avril 1773: naissance de Giuseppina Grassini, chanteuse d'opéra italienne.
➡️Giuseppina Grassini dans le rôle de Zaïre, 1805, par Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (1755-1842).
➡️Giuseppina Grassini, par Marie-Guilhelmine Benoist.

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2020-04-17

Καλημέρα Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (16 April 1755 – 30 March 1842) was a French painter.Marie Antoinette 1783

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2020-04-17

🎨🇷🇺
Exilée loin d'une France alors livrée au chaos, la portraitiste Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun (née le 16 avril 1755) retrouva la "douceur de vivre" à la Cour de la Tsarine Catherine II et finit par considérer la comme sa seconde patrie. Quelques œuvres de cette période👇.

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2020-04-17

Born in 1755: (1755-1842), French Portrait Painter

Portrait of Marie Antoinette of Austria, Queen of France (1755-93), 1783

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2020-04-17

Born in 1755: (1755-1842), French Portrait Painter

Portrait of Marie Thérèse Charlotte of France, Madame Royale, and Louis Joseph, Dauphin of France, 1784

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2020-04-17

Born in 1755: (1755-1842), French Portrait Painter

Portrait of Princess Anna Alexandrovna Galitzin (1763-1842), 1797

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2020-04-17

Born in 1755: (1755-1842), French Portrait Painter

Portrait of Jeanne Bécu, Madame du Barry (1743-93), 1781

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2020-04-17

Born in 1755: (1755-1842), French Portrait Painter

Portrait of Hyacinthe Gabrielle Roland, Marchioness Wellesley, 1791

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2020-04-17

Born in 1755: (1755-1842), French Portrait Painter

Portrait of Blanche Charlotte Marie Félicité de Narbonne Pelet (1761-1840), La maréchale-comtesse de Mailly, 1783

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2020-04-17

Born in 1755: (1755-1842), French Portrait Painter

Portrait of Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps, Comtesse de la Châtre (1762-1848), 1789

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2020-04-17