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#OnThisDay 1797 a @RoyalNavy Fleet under Adm Jervis in HMS VICTORY defeated a Spanish Fleet off Portugal at Cape St Vincent. The battle also featured one Horatio Nelson in HMS CAPTAIN & Cuthbert Collingwood in HMS EXCELLENT. The victory was a success of teamwork #C2DRIL
Edward Berry, commander at the Battle of the Nile at at Trafalgar, died #onthisday in 1831. Along with Nelson and Collingwood, he was one of only three Royal Navy officers to be awarded three Naval Gold Medals. A naval Bananarama, if you like. #gloriousGeorgians
Born #onthisday1682 Giovanni Battista Piazzetta Venetian Rococo #painter #illustrator 1 of Venice’s outstanding 18th-century artists as art matured it evolved from 17th-century Italian Baroque traditions & embraced Rococo manner Director life drawing Venetian Academy (1750)
#OnThisDay in 1809, #CharlesDarwin was born. He is described as the founding father of #zoology & #biology. To celebrate, I want to share with you a couple of my #scientificIllustrations!
How are you celebrating #DarwinDay?
Born #OnThisDay in 1768: Holy Roman Emperor #FrancisII / Emperor #FrancisI of Austria (1768-1835)
Portrait by #FriedrichvonAmerling (1803-87), 1834
#FranzII #FranzI #Habsburg
Almack's Assembly Rooms opened #onthisday 12 February 1765 'The seventh heaven of the fashionable world' Gronow https://t.co/hhuqKzXs6o
Born #onthisday1884 Max Beckmann German #painter #printmaker #draughtsman channeled WWI experiences into haunting expressive images saturated in emotion symbolism & mesmerising narrative flirted with Expressionism to emerge as a leading Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) artist
William Shenstone, poet and landscape gardening pioneer, died #onthisday in 1763. His garden at The Leasowes made him famous, but cost him his fortune. #gloriousGeorgians
#ArtoftheDay
Ellen Day Hale (1855–1940) was #bornonthisday in #Worcester, #Massachusetts.
#art #artist #artists #artistoftheday #fineart #modernart #painter #painting #paintings #paintingoftheday #portrait #portraits #americanart #botd #discoverher
Died #OnThisDay in 1822: English painter Arthur William #Devis (1762-1822)
Portrait of The Hon. William Monson and His Wife, Ann Debonnaire and an Indian Servant, ca. 1786
#BritishArt #ColouredPeopleInArt
Died #OnThisDay in 1822: English painter Arthur William #Devis (1762-1822)
Portrait of a Gentleman, Possibly William Hickey, and an Indian Servant, ca. 1785
#BritishArt #ColouredPeopleInArt
Died #OnThisDay in 1681: Dutch Painter active in England Gerard #Soest (ca. 1600-1681)
Portrait of Lady Margaret Hay, Countess of Roxburghe (ca. 1657-1753), ca. 1675
#DutchArt #EnglishArt #DogsInArt
Died #OnThisDay in 1681: Dutch Painter active in England Gerard #Soest (ca. 1600-1681)
Portrait of Thomas Bulwer, 1654
#DutchArt #EnglishArt
Died #OnThisDay in 1681: Dutch Painter active in England Gerard #Soest (ca. 1600-1681)
Portrait of the Poet #SamuelButler (1612-1680), 1670s
#DutchArt #EnglishArt #EnglishLiterature #Hudibras
Died #OnThisDay in 1681: Dutch Painter active in England Gerard #Soest (ca. 1600-1681)
Portrait of Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk (1628-84), ca. 1670-5
#DutchArt #EnglishArt
Died #OnThisDay in 1681: Dutch Painter active in England Gerard #Soest (ca. 1600-1681)
Portrait of an Unknown Woman, ca 1670
#DutchArt #EnglishArt
Carlo Carrà was born #onthisday in 1881.
Together with Umberto Boccioni and Luigi Russolo he drafted the Manifesto of the Futurist Painters and the Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting (both 1910), issuing his own manifesto The Painting of Sounds, Noises and Smells in 1913.
Married #OnThisDay in 1840: #QueenVictoria of the United Kingdom & #PrinceAlbert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Portrait of Victoria in het wedding dress by Franz Xaver #Winterhalter (1805-73), 1847
#RoyalWedding #Hanover #SaxeCoburgGotha
Married #OnThisDay in 1840: #QueenVictoria of the United Kingdom & #PrinceAlbert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
Family Portrait by Franz Xaver #Winterhalter (1805-73), 1846
#RoyalFamily #Hanover #SaxeCoburgGotha #ChildrenInArt
Died #OnThisDay 10Feb1879 Honoré-Victorian Daumier was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor. He is perhaps best known for his caricatures of political figures. #caricatures #19thcentury #Victorian