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The Opening of Waterloo Bridge (‘Whitehall Stairs, June 18th, 1817’), 1832 https://t.co/9rJBpCKkFi #museumarchive #tatemuseum
The birth of Aphrodite (1887) by Ivan Ajvazovskij (Russia, 1817-1900). Private Collection. Depiction of the birth of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, by one of great masters of marine art. #Seascape #MythologyMonday
Born #OnThisDay in 1843: #MariaClotildeofSavoy (1843-1911), daughter of #VittorioEmanueleII, spouse of #NapoléonJérômeBonaparte
Portrait by #ErnestHébert (1817-1908), 1860
#Savoy #Bonaparte
John Callcott Horsley (1817-1903) Peintre académique anglais de scènes de genre et d'histoire, illustrateur et concepteur de la première carte de Noël. Il était membre de la colonie d'artistes de Cranbrook.
"La préférence"
🥕 American medical botany: .
Boston:Cummings and Hilliard, 1817-1820.
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Born #OnThisDay in 1817: British painter #GeorgeFredericWatts (1817-1904)
Portrait of Edith Bulwer-Lytton, Countess of Lytton, née Villiers (1841-1936), 1862
#Watts #BritishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1817: British painter #GeorgeFredericWatts (1817-1904)
Portrait of John Whichel, 1839
#Watts #BritishArt
National Gallery of Slovenia
G. F. Watts was #bornonthisday in 1817 🥳 Here are some jewels from @WattsGallery - a place very close to my heart.
Time Death and Judgement, 1900
Fiesole, Tuscany, 1844-5
Paolo and Francesca, 1872-5
Lady Augusta Holland, c.1844
#watts #BOTD #art #arthistory
"The Birth of Aphrodite" & "Travel of Poseidon by the Sea", Ivan Aivazovsky (1817 – 1900), Russian.
Baptized as Hovhannes Aivazian, he was born into an Armenian family in the Black Sea port of Feodosia in Crimea and was mostly based there.
The boudoir is beckoning so I wish all of you a good night with a stunning sky of golds and purples.
Ivan Aivazovsky (1817-1900), Russian romantic painter
Odessa at Night
Born #OnThisDay in 1817: #WilliamIII (1817-90), King of the Netherlands
Portrait by #PieterdeJosselindeJong (1861-1906), 1887
#WillemIII #OrangeNassau
Lewis Armistead was born #OTD in 1817 in New Bern, NC, into a distinguished military family. His father and 4 uncles served during the War of 1812. His uncle George Armistead commanded @FtMcHenryNPS during the battle that led to the writing of The Star Spangled Banner.
A Mother Depositing Her Child at the Foundling Hospital in Paris (1855) by Henry Nelson O'Neil (1817–1880). The Foundling Museum. #Childhood
On this day in 1817, French painter Charles-François #Daubigny was born in Paris.
A painter of the Barbizon school, Daubigny broke with classical conventions, committed to capturing nature precisely “as it was”.
#OTD #OnThisDayInArtHistory