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Born #OnThisDay in 1599: Southern Netherlandish painter #AnthonyvanDyck (1599-1641)
Portrait of Lady Elizabeth Thimbelby and her Sister, Viscountess Andover, ca. 1637
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Born #OnThisDay in 1599: Southern Netherlandish painter #AnthonyvanDyck (1599-1641)
Portrait of the Balbi Children, 1625-7
#vanDyck #AntoonvanDyck #SouthernNetherlandishArt #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1599: Southern Netherlandish painter #AnthonyvanDyck (1599-1641)
Portrait of a Genovese Noblewoman, ca. 1625–27
#vanDyck #AntoonvanDyck #SouthernNetherlandishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1599: Southern Netherlandish painter #AnthonyvanDyck (1599-1641)
Portrait of Nicolas Lanier (1588-1666), 1628
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Born #OnThisDay in 1599: Southern Netherlandish painter #AnthonyvanDyck (1599-1641)
Portrait of Marten Pepijn, 1632
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Born #OnThisDay in 1599: Southern Netherlandish painter #AnthonyvanDyck (1599-1641)
Portrait of Anna Wake (1605-before 1669), 1628
#vanDyck #AntoonvanDyck #SouthernNetherlandishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1599: Southern Netherlandish painter #AnthonyvanDyck (1599-1641)
Self-portrait with Endymion Porter (1587-1649), ca. 1635
#vanDyck #AntoonvanDyck #SouthernNetherlandishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1459: #MaximilianI, Holy Roman Emperor (1459-1519)
Portrait woodcut by Albrecht #Dürer (1471-1528), ca. 1518
#Habsburg #GermanRenaissance
Born #OnThisDay in 1855: English painter #DorothyTennant (1855-1926)
Portrait by #GeorgeFredericWatts (1817-1904)
#WomenArtists #BritishArt
Anthony van Dyck was born #OnThisDay in 1599. At over 3.5 metres high, his 'Equestrian Portrait of Charles 1' is one of our giants. Over the last year we've cleaning, relined and retouched the painting, filming its journey along the way: https://t.co/7tgb5tvajy
#OnThisDay, 21 Mar 1944, Virginia Hall returns to Nazi-occupied France.
Having escaped over the Pyrenees mountains whilst with the British Special Operations Executive, she returns with the American Office of Strategic Services. She trains 3 battalions of resistance fighters.
#OnThisDay 1815 Napoleon Bonaparte marched into #Paris setting in motion the 'Hundred Days' that would conclude with his defeat at Waterloo & final abdication.
The allied powers were forced once again to search for a #cure
#twitterstorians #Wellington
Born #OnThisDay in 1751: Archduchess #MariaJosephaofAustria (1751-67), daughter of Holy Roman Emperors #MariaTheresa & #FranzI
Portrait by Jean-Étienne #Liotard (1702-89), 1762
#Habsburg #ChildrenInArt
#ArtistoftheDay
Nina Vatolina (1915—2002) was #bornonthisday in #Russia.
#art #artist #artists #artoftheday #arthistory #graphics #illustration #graphicdesign #graphicdesigner #poster #posters #WWII
Born #OnThisDay in 1749: Princess #LouisaofGreatBritain (1749-68), granddaughter of King #GeorgeII
Portrait with sister Caroline Matilda (1751-75) by #FrancisCotes (1726-70), 1767
#Hanover #ChildrenInArt #SiblingsInArt
It is remarkable that first and second future-based Simpsons episodes ("Lisa's Wedding" and "Bart to the Future") aired on the same day five years apart from each other (March 19, 1995 and 2000). #OnThisDay threads coming later today!
#OnThisDay seven years ago, Clockwork Princess by @cassieclare was published!
#TheInfernalDevices
Much more than a number, Patrick McGoohan was born on this date in 1928.
#BornOnThisDay
#PatrickMcGoohan
#ThePrisoner
All About Royal Families: OTD March 19th.1851 Frederick Francis III Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin: https://t.co/tz4B1KwmPH
#Onthisday in royal #History
Born #OnThisDay in 1842: French symbolist poet #StéphaneMallarmé (1842-98)
Portrait by Édouard #Manet (1832-83), 1876
#Mallarmé #FrechLiterature #PoètesMaudits