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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
Born #OnThisDay in 1637: #HenrietteCatherineofNassau (1637-1708), Princess & Regent of Anhalt-Dessau, daughter of Stadtholder #FrederikHendrik, Prince of Orange
Portrait by Gerard van #Honthorst (1592-1656), ca. 1650-60
#OrangeNassau
Born #OnThisDay in 1637: #HenrietteCatherineofNassau (1637-1708), Princess & Regent of Anhalt-Dessau, daughter of Stadtholder #FrederikHendrik, Prince of Orange
Portrait by Johannes #Mijtens (1614-70), ca. 1655-65
#OrangeNassau #DogsInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1637: #HenrietteCatherineofNassau (1637-1708), Princess & Regent of Anhalt-Dessau, daughter of Stadtholder #FrederikHendrik, Prince of Orange
Portrait with sister #AlbertineAgnes by Gerard van #Honthorst (1592-1656), ca. 1650
#OrangeNassau
Born #OnThisDay in 1815: Spanish painter #FedericoMadrazo (Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz) (1815-94)
Portrait of Sabina Seupham Spalding, 1846
#SpanishArt #Romanticism
Born #OnThisDay in 1815: Spanish painter #FedericoMadrazo (Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz) (1815-94)
Portrait of María Encarnación Cueto de Saavedra, Duchess of Rivas, 1878
#SpanishArt #Romanticism
Museo del Romanticismo de Madrid