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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
Born #OnThisDay in 1815: Spanish painter #FedericoMadrazo (Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz) (1815-94)
Portrait of #CarolinaCoronado (1820-1911), ca. 1855
#SpanishArt #Romanticism #SpanishLiterature #WomenWriters
Born #OnThisDay in 1815: Spanish painter #FedericoMadrazo (Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz) (1815-94)
Portrait by #RaimundoMadrazo y Garreta (1841-1920), 1875
#SpanishArt
Died #OnThisDay in 1612: #VincenzoGonzaga, Duke of Mantua (1562-1612)
Portrait by Frans #Pourbus the Younger (ca.1569-1622), ca. 1605-8
#Gonzaga #SouthernNetherlandishArt #FransPourbus
#GalleriaRizzi
Born #onthisday1896 Alberto Vargas iconic Peruvian watercolour & airbrush painter of pin-up girls Regarded as one of finest artists in his genre Early career worked as artist for Ziegfeld Follies & Hollywood studios Vargas' most famous film poster was 1933 The Sin of Nora Moran…
Born #OnThisDay in 1876: German painter Paula #ModersohnBecker (1876-1907)
Self-portrait on the 6th wedding anniversary, 1906
#WomenArtists #GermanArt #Expressionism
Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum
"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 #onthisday in 1819, author of The King of The Golden River.
Illustration by Arthur Rackham https://t.co/Z7LU9I0vDk
Born #OnThisDay in 1772: French-born Belgian portrait miniature painter Louis-Marie #Autissier (1772-1830)
Self-portrait, 1817
#FrenchArt #BelgianArt
Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins was #BornOnThisDay in 1807. #Artist & #sculptor, known for the #dinosaurs in Crystal Palace Park in London. The #SpecialCollections in #ZSLLibrary includes a few original #paintings by Hawkins.
#SciArt #BOTD #OTD
Born #onthisday1880 Franz Marc one of key figures of the German #Expressionist movement & a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter artistic journal Fascinated by #Cubism & #Futurism Marc’s art used bright primary colours & profound emotion but increasingly became starkly #abstract
Born #OnThisDay in 1622: #VittoriadellaRovere (1622-94), Grand Duchess of Tuscany as wife of #FerdinandoIIdeMedici
Portrait with husband by Justus #Sustermans (1597-1681), ca. 1660s
#DellaRovere #Medici
#OnThisDay (7 February 1813) The British frigate HMS #Amelia and the French frigate #Aréthuse clash near the Îles de Los, off #Guinea in what became known as The Action of 7 February 1813. Both ships sustain heavy damage but the action effectively ends in a stalemate.
Born #OnThisDay in 1812: English writer #CharlesDickens (1812-70)
Portrait drawing by Samuel Laurence (1812-84), 1838
#Dickens #EnglishLiterature #Victorian
Charles Dickens was born #OnThisDay 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.
#OTD #history #literature