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Born #OnThisDay in 1728: Saxon (born) painter #AntonRaphaelMengs (1728-79)
Portrait of Welsh painter #RichardWilson (1714-1782), 1752
#Mengs #GermanArt #WelshArt
#OnThisDay in 604, Pope Gregory the Great died; he had made great strides in the spreading of Catholicism
Born #OnThisDay in 1637: #AnneHyde (1637-1671), Duchess of York as wife of the later #JamesII, mother of Queen #MaryII & #QueenAnne
Portrait by Peter #Lely (1618-80), ca. 1661
#Stuart #EnglishArt
Pierre Jean François Turpin was born #OnThisDay in 1775. He learned botany from his collaborator Pierre Antoine Poiteau, but taught himself how to draw; and he didn’t do too bad a job judging by these fine examples held in the Lindley Library.
#BotanicalArt #RareBooks
#OnThisDay in 1975, Alice Cooper released his iconic concept album "Welcome To My Nightmare", taking us on a journey through the nightmares of a boy named Steven. The album peaked at #5 on the Billboard charts and is certified platinum #ClassicRock #ShockRock #70s #AliceCooper
Wishing #DavidGentleman a very Happy 90th Birthday #OnThisDay . A student @RCA taught by Edward Bawden & John Nash, also Shell artists, these beautiful watercolour #paintings of the British countryside for the 1964 @Shell_UKLtd Book of Roads shows his great talent
#OnThisDay 11 March 1645 at #Devizes in Wiltshire Parliamentary forces under Sir William Waller and Oliver Cromwell surprised a party of 400 Royalist Horse on their way to join Lord Goring; only thirty escaped. #EnglishCivilWar #17thCentury #OTD
Born #OnThisDay in 1844: British #PreRaphaelite painter #MarieSpartaliStillman (1844-1927)
Self-portrait, 1871
#SpartaliStillman #Spartali #WomenArtists
Born #OnThisDay in 1750: German painter Johann Friedrich August #Tischbein (1750-1812)
Portrait of a family, 1795-1800
#LeipzigerTischbein #GermanArt
#Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel
Born #OnThisDay in 1750: German painter Johann Friedrich August #Tischbein (1750-1812)
Portrait of Caroline Henriette von Baumbach-Freudenthal (1741-1809), ca. 1785
#LeipzigerTischbein #GermanArt
#Museumslandschaft Hessen Kassel
#ArtoftheDay 1880
French #painter Sonia Lewitska was #bornonthisday in what is now #Poland.
#art #artist #artists #fineart #modernart #frenchart #polishart #landscape #landscapepainting #painting #paintings #botd #onthisday #otd #discoverher
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