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"When the sun had set to everything else, his beams still shone full upon this waterfall, so that it looked like a shower of gold"

Happy Birthday John Ruskin born in 1819, author of The King of The Golden River.

Illustration by Arthur Rackham https://t.co/Z7LU9I0vDk

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Born in 1772: French-born Belgian portrait miniature painter Louis-Marie (1772-1830)

Self-portrait, 1817

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Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins was in 1807. & known for the in Crystal Palace Park in London. The in includes a few original by Hawkins.

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Born Franz Marc one of key figures of the German movement & a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter artistic journal Fascinated by & Marc’s art used bright primary colours & profound emotion but increasingly became starkly

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Born in 1622: (1622-94), Grand Duchess of Tuscany as wife of

Portrait with husband by Justus (1597-1681), ca. 1660s

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(7 February 1813) The British frigate HMS and the French frigate clash near the Îles de Los, off  in what became known as The Action of 7 February 1813. Both ships sustain heavy damage but the action effectively ends in a stalemate.

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Born in 1812: English writer (1812-70)

Portrait drawing by Samuel Laurence (1812-84), 1838

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Charles Dickens was born in 1812 in Portsmouth.

Did you know that he hated sitting for photographs and portraits? Accounts from people who knew him can’t even agree on the colour of his eyes.

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2020-02-07

Principal Sam's Calendar

February 7

Laura Ingalls Wilder was born on this day in 1867.

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7 Feb 1971, women in Switzerland win the right to vote in federal elections after a national referendum.

Snail pic is from a suffrage protest in 1928.

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Born Henry Fuseli Swiss 200+ canvasses on art & “Master of the supernatural” thanks to his inventive designs & methodswho spent much of his life in Britain His style influenced many younger British artists such as William Blake

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Born in 1665: of Great Britain (1665-1714)

Portrait by (1659-1743), ca 1702

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On this day in 1987, the movie Light of Day was released starring Joan Jett and Michael J. Fox as siblings and members of a rock band. A young Trent Reznor appears in the film as a member of another band.

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2020-02-06

6 February 1649, the House of Commons voted to abolish the House of Lords (funnily enough, they hadn't been getting on too well....)

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Died in 1579: Italian painter Giovanni Battista (ca. 1520/4-79)

Portrait of a Lady, possibly Contessa Lucia Albani Avogadro ("La Dama in Rosso"), 1556-60

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Died in 1579: Italian painter Giovanni Battista (ca. 1520/4-79)

Portrait of Gian Gerolamo Grumelli, 1560

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Born in 1617: Southern Netherlandish painter van Ieperen (1617-73)

Portrait of Gundakar, Prince of Dietrichstein (1623-1690) on horseback in a ballet costume, ca. 1667

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Born in 1626: French aristocrat & writer: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, (1626-96)

Portrait after Louis Ferdinand Elle the Elder (1612-89), 17th Century

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2020-02-05

Born in 1626: French aristocrat & writer: Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, (1626-96)

Portrait by (1632-75), ca. 1665

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“Illuminated by the internal glow of electric hearts…”

The exciting, multifaceted + outrageous Futurist Manifesto published 1909

"Dynamism of A Soccer Player" Umberto Boccioni

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