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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
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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
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Born #OnThisDay in 1832: French painter Édouard #Manet (1832-83)
Portrait of Lola de Valence, 1862
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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
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…
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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.