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Born #onthisday1690 Nicolas Lancret master of #Rococo art form & brilliant #painter of balls fairs & weddings showing French social tastes & manners under the regent Orleans Later his pastels palette deftly captured a sense of harmony between art & nature Many of Lancret’s…
#ArtHistory 1929
Evelyn Jane Williams was #bornonthisday in London
"My goal has always been to find the moment when all goes still, when my heart cocooned in calm allows the tiny seed of an idea to grow."
#art #artist #artists #modernart #fineart #painting #paintings #britishart
Born #OnThisDay in 1716: German painter active in Russia #GeorgChristophGrooth (1716-49)
Portrait of Empress Elisabeth of Russia (1709-62)
#Grooth #Гроо́т
Born #OnThisDay in 1845: Norwegian painter #HarrietBacker (1845-1932)
Portrait of Vedastine Aubert, ca. 1910
#WomenArtists #NorwegianArt
Born #onthisday1820 Joseph Wolf German #artist & the father of wildlife painting At British Museum from 1848 Wolf’s accurate lifelike illustrations made him preferred illustrator for explorers & naturalists Lanseer described him as "...best all-round animal artist who ever lived"
Born #OnThisDay in 1716: #CharlesIII, King of Spain (1716-88)
Portrait byMariano Salvador #Maella (1739-1819) after Anton Raphael #Mengs (1728-79), ca. 1783-4
#CarlosIII #Bourbon
The Austrian botanical artist Ferdinand Lukas Bauer was born #OnThisDay in 1760. The RHS Lindley Library holds some beautiful watercolour foxgloves by Bauer, which were published in John Lindley’s ‘Digitalium Monographia’ (1821). #BotanicalArt
#OnThisDay 1735 the future Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, was born. He had a full and sometimes controversial @RoyalNavy career but is most famous for defeating 27 Spanish ships with his Fleet of 15 off Cape St Vincent. The action resulted in him being made, Earl St Vincent.
Edgar Allan Poe was born #onthisday in 1809. This drawing is an illustration by Dante Gabriel Rossetti for Edgar Allan Poe's poem 'The Raven'
The Raven - Angel Footfalls, 1847.
Paul Cézanne born #onthisday
#PaulCezanne - The Boy in the Red Vest, 1888-1890
Died #OnThisDay in 1636: Netherlandish painter active in England Marcus #Gheeraerts the Younger (ca. 1561/2-1636)
Portrait of Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland (d. 1633), 1603
#Gerards #Geerards #Elizabethan
Died #OnThisDay in 1636: Netherlandish painter active in England Marcus #Gheeraerts the Younger (ca. 1561/2-1636)
Portrait of Mary Rogers, Lady Harington (1565-ca.1634), 1592
#Gerards #Geerards #Elizabethan
Born #OnThisDay in 1839: French Post-Impressionist painter Paul #Cézanne (1839-1906)
Self-portrait, 1881-2
#FrenchArt #PostImpressionism
He influenced so many & laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new & radically different world of art in the 20th century
The french painter & master Paul Cezanne was born on this day in 1839
#paulcezanne #BornOnThisDay
#ArtHistory 1882
Franco-Russian #painter and theatre #designer Aleksandra Ekster was #bornonthisday in what is now #Białystok #Poland.
#art #artist #artists #modernart #fineart #painting #paintings #frenchart #russianart #cubism #futurism #stilllife #BOTD #onthisday #discoverher
Born #OnThisDay 18Jan1752 English architect John Nash who created the Royal Pavilion. Shown Royal Pavilion and the music room and long gallery in it. #royalpavilion #johnnash #architecture
Born #OnThisDay in 1795: #AnnaPavlovnaofRussia (1795-1865), Queen of the Netherlands as spouse of King #WillemII, daughter of Emperor #PavelI
Portrait by Jan Baptist van der Hulst (1790-1862), 1841
#Romanov #OrangeNassau
Born #OnThisDay in 1732: #StanisławAugustPoniatowski, King of Poland as #StanisławIIAugustus (1732-98), lover of Empress #CatherineTheGreat
Portrait by Marcello #Bacciarelli (1731-1818), 1793
#Poniatowski
Born #OnThisDay in 1706: American Founding Father #BenjaminFranklin (1706-90)
Portrait by Joseph #Duplessis (1725-1802), ca. 1785
#FoundingFathers #FrenchArt