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Born #OnThisDay in 1750: German painter Johann Friedrich August #Tischbein (1750-1812)
Portrait of Cornelia Rijdenius (1746-1826), 1790-5
#LeipzigerTischbein #GermanArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1750: German painter Johann Friedrich August #Tischbein (1750-1812)
Portrait of Amalie Wolff-Malcolmi (1780-1851), 1798-1805
#LeipzigerTischbein #GermanArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1750: German painter Johann Friedrich August #Tischbein (1750-1812)
Portrait of Jaques Ferdinand Dufour-Feronce with his daughter Constance Aimée, 1802
#LeipzigerTischbein #GermanArt #ChildrenInArt
#Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel
Born #OnThisDay in 1769: French painter #AdélaïdeBinart (1769-1832)
Portrait by #MarieGenevièveBouliard (1772-1825), 1796
#Binart #WomenArtists #FrenchArt
Born #onthisday1882 Arthur Carles American #Modernist #painter & one of most brilliant colourists in history of American art Highly intuitive he saw art as an affair of the emotions His style spanned #Tonalism to #Impressionism & foresaw emergence of #AbstractExpressionism
William Matthews was born #onthisday. He was ICE President 1907 and partner in Coode, Son and Matthews company, overseeing harbour works including Singapore and Colombo. Also Hodbarrow Barrier and naval harbour, Dover. https://t.co/EqCpeKcYz2
Spring
In grace of smell.
Spring
In love's grace.
Sleep unveiled,
Rare sensation
What bee has been entered
In my heart?
Uruguayan poet, Juana Fernandez de Ibarbourou was born #OnThisDay in 1892 #ReadMoreWomen
Born #OnThisDay in 1748: #WilliamV (1748-1806), Prince of Orange, last Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic
Miniature portrait by an Unknown Dutch Artist, ca. 1768-95
#WillemV #OrangeNassau #DutchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1802: English painter #EdwinLandseer (1802-73)
Portrait of Donald McIntyre, ca. 1830
#Landseer #EnglishArt #BritishArt
#OnThisDay in 1981: Memphis TV airs: Dream Machine quits @RealJimmyHart's First Family in Memphis in a fantastic
#OnThisDay in #Batman history, 1940’s Detective Comics #38 was published, marking the debut of both #DickGrayson and the mantle of #Robin The Boy Wonder! Happy 80th anniversary Robin!! https://t.co/aZipZPFaQ1 #Robin80 ✌🏼❤️💚💛🦇🎊
📖✏️: Bill Finger
🎨: Bob Kane + Jerry Robinson
Died #OnThisDay in 1638: Dutch painter #PaulusMoreelse (1571-1638)
Portrait of a Girl wearing a Gold Chain, 1623
#Moreelse #DutchArt #ChildrenInArt
Born #onthisday1872 Piet Mondrian Dutch #painter theoretician & one of greatest 20th century artists Pioneer of #abstractart utopian art searched for universal values & aesthetics Changed artistic direction from figurative to an abstract style reduced to simple geometric elements
Born #OnThisDay in 1808: Swedish painter #SofiaAdlersparre (1808-62)
Self-portrait, 1849
#Adlersparre #WomenArtists #SwedishArt
"I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship."
American author, Louisa May Alcott died #OnThisDay in 1888 #ReadMoreWomen
Born #OnThisDay in 1806: English poet #ElizabethBarrettBrowning (1806-61)
Portrait by #FieldTalfourd (1815-74), 1859
#BarrettBrowning #WomenAuthors #EnglishLiterature #Victorian
Boron on this day in 1475, the Renaissance artist, Michelangelo. Read about this giant of the Art world here; https://t.co/V3T1n9OeJq #Michelangelo #BornOnThisDay
"The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection."
🎨 The Italian Renaissance master #Michelangelo was born #onthisday 1475. He excelled in #architecture, #painting, #poetry and #sculpture.
#TodayInMystery 1770
Soldiers fire into an armed mob of hundreds outside the #Boston Custom House, with ultimately 6 fatalities. The Massacre exacerbated public outrage over taxation and troop deployment and would prove a catalyst for revolution.
#OnThisDay #OTD #TodayinHistory
Happy Birthday illustrator Peter Newell born #onthisday in 1862 🖌️
Most well known for his Mother Goose Menagerie artwork https://t.co/q6unNDdLV9