Millet was considering the idealised nudes of the academic painters & sought to create an honest version. The Goose Girl (c1863), A Winnower (1866-8), the Reaper (c1866-8) & Path with Chestnut Trees nr Cusset (c1867)

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Oswald Stoll born 20 Jan 1866, Melbourne, Australia. Theatre entrepreneur who started out in Liverpool at Parthenon building an 'empire' of entertainment venues inc

Very keen on entertainment 'free from all vulgarity.'

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Продолжая рубрику «Музейный вояж» мы отправляемся в Ялту - город и порт Крыма на южном побережье полуострова.В экспозиции Картинной галереи представлена картина «Приморский город. Вид Ялты» (1866г), которая относится к периоду зрелости и славы живописца. https://t.co/zghWdXrdfq

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John Masey Wright ( 14-1-1777–1866) was an English painter

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Ippolito Caffi (1809 - 1866)

Venezia, veduta notturna con la Piazzetta San Marco e il Molo, con vista sull'Isola di San Giorgio

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What links Galadriel with Dante Gabriel Rossetti’s Helen of Troy (1863) and Lady Lilith (1866–1868)? Find out in my 2020 keynote on Unfinished Tales of Númenor and Middle-earth (from about 19 minutes in): https://t.co/F4NkVNSq9A

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🔸Morning, by Ramon Casas i Carbó (1866-1932), a Catalan artist.

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Scottish Symbolist John Duncan's (1866-1945) icy palette of colours (frequently painted in tempera) often evokes a crisp, chilly day by the coast: today's is 'The Turn of The Tide' (c.1919, The Fleming Collection, London)

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Auguste Levêque.
Belgian, 1866-1921.
La Parque. The Fates. 1900

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Composition VI - 1913
Vasili Kandinsky (1866 – 1944)
Saint Petersburg, Hermitage Museum


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"A Woman at the Fountain with Rising Moon." 1866. Ferdinand Knab, artist (1834-1902). via Facebook.

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When Thomas Nast published a series of drawings of Santa Claus for Harper’s Weekly from 1863-1866 he helped create the fatherly figure in red that we know today, proving his white bearded, fur-cloaked, pipe-smoking Pelznickel predated Coca Cola's Santa by almost 70 yrs 🎅

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On June 12, 1920, Russian born French surgeon Serge Voronoff (1866-1951), aka “the monkey gland man”, first transplanted thin slices of testicles from chimpanzees and baboons into a human scrotum. His rejuvenation technique was very popular before being debunked by 1935.

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