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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
Read more: https://t.co/Wsm7CMOVzz
#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
Born #OnThisDay in 1773, Prince #AugustusFrederick of the United Kingdom, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), son of King #GeorgeIII
Portrait by Peter Edward #Stroehling (1768-c. 1826), ca. 1805-10
#Hanover
Happy Birthday, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart! He was born #onthisday 264 years ago. Read all about his life in WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART by @JVK_Creative and @isabelmgart https://t.co/5OISdvRrtd
Hester Thrale, diarist, was born #onthisday in 1741. This quintessential #GloriousGeorgian’s writings are a joy - if you haven’t encountered her yet, what’re you waiting for?
#BornOnThisDay: #BessieColeman #Pilot #Inspiration #Noisemaker
Art by @shannondrewthis from NOISEMAKERS: 25 WOMEN WHO RAISED THEIR VOICE & CHANGED THE WORLD!
#ThisDayInHistory #OnThisDayShe
#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