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Foote was promoted to Commodore, and received the Thanks of Congress twice for leading his flotilla in the Battles of Fort Henry, and Island Number Ten. He was promoted to Rear Admiral in late 1862.

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2021-06-26

Tonight's goodnight image is 'Sunset, Winter', by Louis Rémy Mignot, oil on canvas, 1862.
Sleep tight.

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2021-06-23

Good morning - I hope you slept like a bilberry stuffed capercaillie. I'm starting with 'The Eye of God', by the extraordinary Victorian artist, Georgiana Houghton. Watercolour, 1862.

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2021-06-18



Considered the leader of the French Romantic school of painting, Eugene Delacroix was a prolific artist, producing over 9,000 works during his lifetime, ranging from paintings, to watercolors, pastels and drawings.

Winter Juno And Aeolus, 1862.

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2021-04-11

2/2 Josephine & Lydia in the nursery, 1908. By their father Leonid Pasternak who was born OTD in 1862.

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2021-04-04

Max Lieberman opening an exhibition at the Berlin Academy in 1930. By Leonid Pasternak, who was born OTD in 1862.

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2021-04-04

Another great writer: Boris Pasternak by the Baltic at Merekule, 1910. Painted by his father Leonid Pasternak, who was born this day 1862.

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2021-04-04

Fantástica litografía del Templo de Isis en 1830-1862. Dibujo realizado por Giacinto Gigante (litógrafo anónimo).

©️📸 Museo del Prado

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2021-03-30

May Morris (seated) b. 1862. Her embroiderers included Florence Farr (with psaltery) who funded first staged play + Lily Yeats, both part of ambience that inspired his dream of heavens' embroidered cloths - listen at https://t.co/VqqvXy6HrW

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2021-03-25

The Goblin Market, a poem by Christina Rossetti, 1862. Two sisters: one is tempted by the fruit at the goblin market & almost wastes away. The other saves her sibling in body & soul by resisting the goblins with their fruit, at all costs. Img: A. Rackham, 1933

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2021-03-18

The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou ended in 1862. Troops of Gen. William T. Sherman’s XIII Corps of the Army of the Tennessee assaulted the positions of Gen. John Pemberton’s command north of .

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2020-12-29

Two baseball teams made up of soldiers played each other on the Union base at in 1862. The teams, representing different regiments of New York troops, were watched by as many as 40,000 spectators.

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2020-12-26

Foote was promoted to Commodore, and received the Thanks of Congress twice for leading his flotilla in the Battles of Fort Henry, and Island Number Ten. He was promoted to Rear Admiral in late 1862.

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2020-09-12

Wood Warblers; two birds perched on the branch of a pine tree, by (Scottish, 1823-1909), who died (Aug 9). Pl 38 in “Birds drawn from Nature,” Edinburgh, 1862. Held at the , https://t.co/wNuM2i1hYZ

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2020-08-09

Louis Rémy Mignot (1831–1870). Sunset, Winter, 1862.

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Tiger with a Tortoise, French artist Eugène Delacroix, 1862.

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2020-07-21

Born on Bornholm, to a middle class family, he was one of 9 kids. He attended Sorø Academy where he learnt painting aged 17, graduating in 1862. From 1863-8 he studied art in Copenhagen. Elisabeth Zahrtmann (1866) & Vilhemine Erichsen (1867)

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