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Born Edouard Manet French heeding Baudelaire’s call for artists to become painters of modern life Manet scandalized Paris’ Salon public & was one of most influential French & pivotal figure in transition from …

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Today in Eight-month-old Constantine is crowned as co-emperor (Caesar) by his father Heraclius at Constantinople. (613 CE)

Image: Classical Numismatic Group, Inc.

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Prior to the Convention meeting 1689 some feared the bishops might be pushed out of the Lords:
"the 1st vote will be the exclusion of the bishops out of The bps in general are not pleased & the Or[ange] mob are equally dissatisfied with them."

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Born Nicolas Lancret master of art form & brilliant 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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1929
Evelyn Jane Williams was 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."

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Born in 1716: German painter active in Russia (1716-49)

Portrait of Empress Elisabeth of Russia (1709-62)

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Born in 1845: Norwegian painter (1845-1932)

Portrait of Vedastine Aubert, ca. 1910

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Born Joseph Wolf German & 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"

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Born in 1716: King of Spain (1716-88)

Portrait byMariano Salvador (1739-1819) after Anton Raphael (1728-79), ca. 1783-4

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The Austrian botanical artist Ferdinand Lukas Bauer was born in 1760. The RHS Lindley Library holds some beautiful watercolour foxgloves by Bauer, which were published in John Lindley’s ‘Digitalium Monographia’ (1821).

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1735 the future Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, was born. He had a full and sometimes controversial 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.

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Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809. This drawing is an illustration by Dante Gabriel Rossetti for Edgar Allan Poe's poem 'The Raven'
The Raven - Angel Footfalls, 1847.

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Paul Cézanne born

- The Boy in the Red Vest, 1888-1890

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Paul Cézanne born

- The Boy in the Red Vest, 1890

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Died in 1636: Netherlandish painter active in England Marcus the Younger (ca. 1561/2-1636)

Portrait of Henry Cary, 1st Viscount Falkland (d. 1633), 1603

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Died in 1636: Netherlandish painter active in England Marcus the Younger (ca. 1561/2-1636)

Portrait of Mary Rogers, Lady Harington (1565-ca.1634), 1592

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Born in 1839: French Post-Impressionist painter Paul (1839-1906)

Self-portrait, 1881-2

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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

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