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Born #OnThisDay in 1863: #VictoriaofHesse and by Rhine (1863-1950), later #VictoriaMountbatten, Marchioness of Milford Haven, granddaughter of #QueenVictoria
Portrait as a girl by #ChristianKarlAugustNoack (1822-1905), 1870
#HesseDarmstadt #Mountbatten #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1732: French painter Jean-Honoré #Fragonard (1732-1806)
Portrait of Jean-Claude Richard de Saint-Non (1725-91), ca. 1769
#FrenchArt #Rococo
Born #OnThisDay in 1732: French painter Jean-Honoré #Fragonard (1732-1806)
Portrait of dancer Marie-Madeleine Guimard (1743-1816), ca. 1770
#FrenchArt #Rococo
#Happybirthday to #JeanHonoréFragonard, born #onthisday 1732.
Fragonard’s #TheSwing, painted c. 1767 – 1768, is emphatically the artist’s most famous #painting, and one of the most recognisable paintings in the Wallace Collection.
Find out more: https://t.co/DFKEeauDZ1
Jean-Honoré Fragonard was born #OnThisDay in 1732. This is an early work by him, which was presented to Louis XV at Versailles in 1753. It illustrates an episode from the classical story of Cupid and Psyche: https://t.co/SgO78LiOJF
#Words & #art
“Lying, thinking...
I came up with one thing
And I don’t believe I’m wrong
That nobody,
But nobody
Can make it out here alone.
Alone, all alone
Nobody, but nobody
Can make it out here alone.”
#BornOnThisDay Maya Angelou (1928-2014)
🖌Serena West🇨🇦Perspective
Born #OnThisDay in 1758: English portrait painter #JohnHoppner (1758-1810)
Portrait of The Honourable Elizabeth Ingram (1762-1817), later Mrs Hugo Meynell, ca. 1789
#Hoppner #BritishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1758: English portrait painter #JohnHoppner (1758-1810)
Portrait of Mary Anne Nugent-Temple-Grenville, Lady Arundell of Wardour (1787-1845)
#Hoppner #BritishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1758: English portrait painter #JohnHoppner (1758-1810)
Portrait of the Hoppner Children, 1791
#Hoppner #BritishArt #SiblingsInArt #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1758: English portrait painter #JohnHoppner (1758-1810)
Portrait of the Frankland Sisters, ca. 1795
#Hoppner #BritishArt #SiblingsInArt
Rothesay Castle, Bute (Scotland) reconstruction suggestion. King Robert III died here #OnThisDay in 1406 on hearing his Son and Heir James I has been captured by English pirates off Flamborough Head while heading for safety in France. #RothesayCastle #HistoryRebuilt
Born #OnThisDay in 1758: English portrait painter #JohnHoppner (1758-1810)
Portrait of Charlotte Walsingham, Lady Fitzgerald (1769-1831), 18th Century
#Hoppner #BritishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1758: English portrait painter #JohnHoppner (1758-1810)
Portrait of the Right Honourable #WilliamPitt the Younger (1759-1806), after 1804
#Hoppner #BritishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1758: English portrait painter #JohnHoppner (1758-1810)
Portrait of #GeorgeIV (1762-1830), when Prince of Wales, ca. 1790-6
#Hoppner #BritishArt #Hanover
Born #OnThisDay in 1758: English portrait painter #JohnHoppner (1758-1810)
Portrait of William Henry Meyrick, ca. 1805
#Hoppner #BritishArt #ChildrenInArt
#OnThisDay in 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated.
https://t.co/sJOkLseZxR
Born #OnThisDay in 1758: French painter Pierre-Paul #Prudhon (1758-1823)
Portrait of David Johnston, 1808
#FrenchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1758: French painter Pierre-Paul #Prudhon (1758-1823)
Portrait of Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (1761-1825), Catharina Nahuys (1770-1844) and their children Catharina (1790-1842) & Gerrit (1794-1863), 1801-2
#FrenchArt #FamilyPortrait #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1758: French painter Pierre-Paul #Prudhon (1758-1823)
Portrait of Lavinie Barbiet-Walbonne, later Baronne Darriule
#FrenchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1812: #LouiseMarieofOrléans (1812-50), Queen of Belgium as wife of #LeopoldI
Posthumous Portrait by #NicaisedeKeyser (1813-87), 1856
#BourbonOrléans #SaxeCoburgGotha #BelgianArt