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Born #OnThisDay in 1707: Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707-51), son of King #GeorgeII, father of King #GeorgeIII
Portrait as a boy by an Unkown British Artist, ca. 1720-3
#Hanover #BritishArt #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1707: Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707-51), son of King #GeorgeII, father of King #GeorgeIII
Portrait as a child by an Unkown British Artist, ca. 1718-20
#Hanover #BritishArt #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1707: Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707-51), son of King #GeorgeII, father of King #GeorgeIII
Portrait with Thomas Bloodworth, Groom of the Bedchamber, by Bartholomew #Dandridge (1691-ca.1754), ca. 1732
#Hanover #BritishArt #HorsesInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1707: Frederick, Prince of Wales (1707-51), son of King #GeorgeII, father of King #GeorgeIII
Portrait with his sisters, princesses Amelia, Anne & Caroline by #PhilippeMercier (1689-1760), 1733
#Hanover #SiblingsInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1756: #MariaTheresaofSavoy (1756-1805), Countess of Artois by marriage to Charles Philippe of Bourbon (later King #CharlesX)
Portrait with children Louis-Antoine, Sophie & Charles-Ferdinand by #CharlesLeClercq (1753-1821),1780-2
#Savoy #Bourbon #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1756: #MariaTheresaofSavoy (1756-1805), Countess of Artois by marriage to Charles Philippe of Bourbon (later King #CharlesX)
Portrait by Jean-Baptiste André #GautierDagoty (1740-86), 1775
#Savoy #Bourbon #FrenchArt
2000 years ago #OnThisDay Romans finished a 1km bridge over #Donau River, wt plans by Apollodorus of Damacus. It took them only 2 years. The bridge facilitated #Roman invasion of #Dacia & the genesis of Trajan & Dochia #myth. #TodayInHistory
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German botanist and entomologist George Dionysius Ehret was born #OnThisDay in 1708. He was also a dab hand at illustration, as can be seen in his work of the 1750s 'Plantae and rariores papiliones', a copy of which is housed at the RHS Lindley Library. #BotanicalArt
#OnThisDay in 1838, Dickens set off from London by coach to visit the Yorkshire schools. This research trip was the basis for Nicholas Nickleby, which was serialised from March 1838: https://t.co/ecR5Sjze4r #OTD #literature #history
Born #onthisday1920 Patrick Heron CBE British abstract & figurative #artist critic & polemicist recognised as one of leading #painters of his generation Made major contribution to dissemination of modernist ideas of painting through his art & critical writing …
Happy Birthday Patrick Caulfield! Born today in 1936, he is often associated with the British Pop Art movement of the 1960s. “One reason I chose restaurant interiors is that they give more scope to introduce space and objects than in a normal domestic setting”. #prints #onthisday
Horatia Nelson, daughter of Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton, was born #onthisday in 1801. #GloriousGeorgians
There’s nothing as cool and #classic as a bottle of #CocaCola, which introduced its fizzy freshness to the world on this day 128 years ago! #WatercolorWednesday #OnThisDayInHistory #coke
🎨 - “Cola Girl” by Katerina Chep
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Born #OnThisDay in 1584: #FrederickHenryofNassau (1584-1647), Prince of Orange, stadholder of Holland etc in the Dutch Republic
Portrait after Anthony #VanDyck (1599-1641), 1625-75
#FrederikHendrik #NassauOrange
#ArtOfTheDay
Alice Neel (1900–1984), #bornonthisday in #Pennsylvania
"I know all the theory, but when I paint I don't think of anything except the subject and me."
#art #artist #artists #fineart #contemporaryart #portrait #painter #painting #paintings #americanart #arthistory
Today in #history: Charlemagne dies after suffering from pleurisy. (814 CE) #OnThisDay
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#OnThisDay 1596 legendary sailor Sir Francis Drake died from yellow fever in W. Indies. Famous as a privateer who rose to Vice Admiral and served in the English Fleet that defeated the Spanish Armada, claimed #California for England and circumnavigated the world.@HMNBDevonport
Viscount Hood, Nelson's mentor, died #onthisday in 1816. #GloriousGeorgians
Born #onthisday1912 Jackson Pollock influential American #painter & leading force in #abstractexpressionism & #surrealism movements famous “drip paintings” represents one of 20th-century’s most original bodies of work redefining painting & detaching line from colour …
Born #OnThisDay in 1773, Prince #AugustusFrederick of the United Kingdom, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), son of King #GeorgeIII
Portrait by #Henri-Pierre Danloux (1753-1809), 1794
#Hanover
#FondationBemberg