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Born #onthisday1879 Kazimir Malevich Russian #avantgarde #artist pioneer of geometric #abstractart & originator of #suprematist movement trying to develop a form of expression removed from natural forms & subject matter to access "the supremacy of pure feeling & spirituality”
Burried #OnThisDay in 1664: English miniature painter #JohnHoskins (1589/90-1664)
Portrait of #HenriettaMaria of France, Queen of England (1609-69), 1632
#EnglishArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1550: #CharlesdeLigne, Prince of Arenberg (1550-1616), leading aristocrat of the #HabsburgNetherlands
Portrait with wife Anne de Croÿ and their family by circle of Frans #Pourbus II (1569-1622), ca.1593
#deLigne #FamilyPortrait #ChildrenInArt #Arenbergkasteel
Born #onthisday1899 Dechko Uzunov Bulgarian #artist & member of Native Art Society achieved recognition for his powerful #painting especially his #landscapes #portraits monumental art #drawing applied graphics & #decorativeart were distinguished by free brushwork & rich colors
One of the worst actors in history, died #OnThisDay 21Feb1848. He was Robert “Romeo” Coates, a very bad #Regency actor and an eccentric man. https://t.co/YvPwV46XjB #19thcentury
#onthisday 1804 An early locomotive won a bet by hauling 11.24 tons of coal, five wagons and 70 men from Pen-y-darren to Abercynon at a speedy 2.4 mph 🚂 Its designer was Richard Trevithick whose work went on to influence the Stephensons and others 🚂 https://t.co/eu46uj2lyI
#words & #Photography
"All human beings are BORN FREE AND EQUAL in dignity and rights...and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood."
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 1
#BornOnThisDay Ansel Adams
Manzanar War Relocation Center, 1943
Born #OnThisDay in 1633: Dutch painter #JandeBaen (1633-1702)
Portrait of Johanna le Gillon, Wife of Hieronymus van Beverningk, 1670
#DutchArt #DutchBaroque
Born #OnThisDay in 1633: Dutch painter #JandeBaen (1633-1702)
Self-portrait with His Wife Maria, ca. 1674
#DutchArt #DutchBaroque
Museum Bredius
Born #onthisday1633 Jan de Baen Dutch #portrait #painter during the Dutch Golden Age Hugely popular he painted the most distinguished people of his time Worked in Charles II’s exiled court & at The Hague from 1660 Also painted #cityscapes #history paintings & #genrepaintings
#Onthisday Khumaar Barabankavi died in 1999. His real was Mohammad Haidar Khan. He was born at Barabanki, a town 30 km to east of Lucknow in 1919. Khumaar had a very melodious voice and soon became popular in Mushairas.
Sir William Fairbairn was born #onthisday 1789. Fairbairn and Eaton Hodgkinson carried out experiments for the tube or box girder for Stephenson's Britannia Bridge, see extracts from Fairbairn letter to Stephenson 20 Sept 1845. See Scot Eng Hall of Fame https://t.co/vbGtlDjTBl
Born #OnThisDay in 1594: #HenryFrederick, Prince of Wales (1594-1612), son of King #JamesI/VI of England & Scotland
Portrait with Sir John Harington (1592–1614), in the Hunting Field by #RobertPeake (1551-1619), ca. 1603
#Stuart #ChildrenInArt #DogsInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1594: #HenryFrederick, Prince of Wales (1594-1612), son of King #JamesI/VI of England & Scotland
Portrait by #RobertPeake (1551-1619)
#Stuart #ChildrenInArt
#OnThisDay 1694 a fleet of over 200 @RoyalNavy and merchant ships entered the Straits of #Gibraltar under the command of Rear Admiral Francis Wheler in HMS SUSSEX. SUSSEX and 12 other ships were sunk in a storm with only 2 survivors. SUSSEX was carrying over £500Million in gold
#words and #art
"She is not very old but the cigarettes help to feel like she is."
Samantha Hunt
🖌#BornOnThisDay Anders Zorn 🇸🇪The Cigarette Girl, 1892
@AlessandraCicc6 @lomazzi_r @BrindusaB1 @gherbitz @bmarczewska @redne2013 @dadagioia @Papryka5 @lagatta4739 @NadiaZanelli1
Born #OnThisDay in 1860: Swedish painter and sculptor #AndersZorn (1860-1920)
Portrait etchings of Maja von Heijne, 1911
#Zorn #SwedishArt #Impressionism #Realism
Born #OnThisDay in 1860: Swedish painter and sculptor #AndersZorn (1860-1920)
Portrait drawing of Master tailor Boberg, 1880
#Zorn #SwedishArt #Impressionism #Realism
Born #OnThisDay in 1860: Swedish painter and sculptor #AndersZorn (1860-1920)
Portrait of Lisen Lamm, 1885
#Zorn #SwedishArt #Impressionism #Realism
Born #OnThisDay in 1860: Swedish painter and sculptor #AndersZorn (1860-1920)
Portrait of a Spanish Lady, 1884
#Zorn #SwedishArt #Impressionism #Realism