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#ArtOfTheDay
Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (1872–1945)
#bornonthisday in what is now London
#art #artist #artists #arthistory #fineart #modernart #painter #painting #paintings #medieval #englishart #britishart #illustration #botd #discoverher
Born #OnThisDay in 1615: Dutch painter #GovertFlinck (1615-60)
Portrait of a Young Woman, ca. 1645
#DutchArt
Happy Birthday to our very own @StephenGeoRae 😊🥳🎂🍾🥂
#BornOnThisDay #filmmaker #artist #performanceartist #Indiefilmmaker #indiefilm #FilmTwitter #Cumbria
Born #OnThisDay in 1779: Princess #LouiseofBaden (1779-1826), aka Empress #ElizabethAlexeievna of Russia as wife of Tsar #AlexanderI
Portrait by Jean-Laurent #Mosnier (1743-1808), 1805
#ЕлизаветаАлексеевна #Zähringen #Romanov
Born #OnThisDay in 1746: #GustavIII (1746-92), King of Sweden
Portrait by #LorensPasch the Younger (1733-1805), 1777
#HolsteinGottorp #SwedishArt
Today in #history: Emperor Hadrian is born. (76 CE) #OnThisDay
Read more: https://t.co/E0bWmKi6gs
Born #OnThisDay in 1746: #GustavIII (1746-92), King of Sweden
Portrait as a child by #UlrikaPasch (1735-96), 1756
#HolsteinGottorp #WomenArtists #ChildrenInArt
He had "no consideration on earth but for what was useful to his own ends. You have heard me say that I thought he had no malice or rancour; I think so still... But I think he has no feeling, neither, for anyone but himself."
Charles James Fox born #OnThisDay 1749
#HistParl
Born #OnThisDay in 1832: French painter Édouard #Manet (1832-83)
Portrait of Mme Guillemet, 1880
#FrenchArt #Realism #Impressionism
Born #OnThisDay in 1832: French painter Édouard #Manet (1832-83)
Portrait of Eugénie-Désirée Fournier, Madame Auguste Manet, the artist’s mother, 1863
#FrenchArt #Realism #Impressionism
Born #OnThisDay in 1832: French painter Édouard #Manet (1832-83)
Portrait of Mademoiselle Isabelle Lemonnier (1857-1926), 1879-82
#FrenchArt #Realism #Impressionism
Born #OnThisDay in 1832: French painter Édouard #Manet (1832-83)
Portrait of #EvaGonzalès (1849-83), 1870
#FrenchArt #Realism #Impressionism #WomenArtists
Born #OnThisDay in 1832: French painter Édouard #Manet (1832-83)
Portrait of #VictorineMeurent (1844-1927), ca. 1862
#FrenchArt #Realism #Impressionism
Born #OnThisDay in 1832: French painter Édouard #Manet (1832-83)
Portrait of Lola de Valence, 1862
#FrenchArt #Realism #Impressionism
Born #OnThisDay in 1832: French painter Édouard #Manet (1832-83)
Self-portrait, 1879
#FrenchArt #Impressionism
Steven A. Cohen collection Greenwich, Connecticut
#onthisday in 1943, a rare cross-code was held between a #rugbyleague XV and a Union XV at Headingley. The game, played under union rules, was only made possible because the RFU had temporarily suspended its ban on professionalism during the War. #RFL125 @TheRFL
Born #onthisday1832 Edouard Manet #artoftheday French #Modernist #painter heeding Baudelaire’s call for artists to become painters of modern life Manet scandalized Paris’ Salon public & was one of most influential French #painters & pivotal figure in transition from #Realism …
Today in #history: Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople. (613 CE) #OnThisDay
Image: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.
Prior to the Convention meeting #OnThisDay 1689 some feared the bishops might be pushed out of the Lords:
"the 1st vote will be the exclusion of the bishops out of #Parliament. The bps in general are not pleased & the Or[ange] mob are equally dissatisfied with them."
#HistParl