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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.
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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
Born #OnThisDay in 1812: #LouiseMarieofOrléans (1812-50), Queen of Belgium as wife of #LeopoldI
Portrait by #ClaudeMarieDubufe (1790-1864), 1836-7
#BourbonOrléans #SaxeCoburgGotha
Born #OnThisDay in 1461: #AnnedeBeaujeu (1461-1522), Regent of France for brother #CharlesVIII, daughter of #LouisXI
Portrait with daughter Suzanne on the right shutter of the Moulins Triptych by #JeanHey (fl. ca. 1480-1500), ca. 1498-9
#MadamelaGrande #Valois #FrenchArt
Did you know #OnThisDay in 1968, a new Barbara Hepworth retrospective opened at Tate. This poster for the exhibition features her 1946 work Pelagos which was inspired by a view of the bay at St Ives in Cornwall, where two stretches of land surround the sea on either side.
Today in #history Charlemagne is born. (742 CE) #OnThisDay
Read more: https://t.co/Wsm7CMOVzz
#ArtQuotes
"Art & #Nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another."
Maria Sibylla Merian (1647–1717)
#art #artist #artists #fineart #illustrator #illustration #germanart #painting #paintings #painter #discoverher #artoftheday #bornonthisday #botd
#ArtHistory 1647
Maria Sibylla Merian was #bornonthisday in #Frankfurt.
"Art & #Nature shall always be wrestling until they eventually conquer one another."
#art #artist #artists #fineart #illustrator #illustration #germanart #painting #paintings #painter #discoverher #botd
Born #OnThisDay 2Apr1740 Armand-Gaston Camus a French revolutionist who was exchanged for Marie Thérèse of France (the daughter of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette) in November of 1795. Learn more about this exchange: https://t.co/fzUfQwQRUT #history #18thcentury
Born #OnThisDay in 1827: English painter #WilliamHolmanHunt (1827-1910)
Portrait of Stephen Lushington (1782-1873), 1862
#PreRaphaeliteBrotherhood #PreRaphaelites
Born #OnThisDay in 1653: Prince #GeorgeofDenmark and Norway, Duke of Cumberland (1653-1708), son of #FrederikIII, husband of #QueenAnne of Great-Britain
Portrait by #GodfreyKneller (1646-1723), ca. 1704
#Oldenburg #Stuart
Banana Tree Flower with Io Moth, by Maria Sibylla Merian — who was born #onthisday in 1647.
From her pioneering Metamorphosis insectorum Surinamensium (Insects of Suriname), first published in 1705.
See more prints by her in our online prints shop: https://t.co/ASX37Nx31n
#HansChristianAndersen born #OnThisDay in 1805. https://t.co/Ac4BGfSHmf
Some pretty vignettes from 'De Europische insecten' by Maria Sibylla Merian, who was born #OnThisDay in 1647
I've just had the most pleasurable and relaxing few minutes flicking through this on @BioDivLibrary and I recommend you do the same!
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