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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
#Words #Images
“Everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
#BornOnThisDay Susan Sontag
📷Andrew Whyte🇬🇧
@lomazzi_r @BrindusaB1 @AlessandraCicc6 @dadagioia @gherbitz @GiuseppeTurrisi @CleliaMussari @emanuelaneri14
#OnThisDay 16Jan1749 The Bottle Conjuror was supposed to appear on stage at the New Theater in Haymarket and when he didn't a riot ensued. Learn more: https://t.co/0Oe5q5AYpK #georgian #18thc #18thcentury
#Onthisday 1809 the Battle of Corunna was fought by Sir John Moore's Army.
After gruelling marches through inhospitable terrain & snow, they were almost ready to embark. Outside the town they turned back against the French. Among the casualties was Sir John Moore himself.
#OnThisDay 21 years ago, January 16, 1999: the episode "Mad Love"
aired on television
Direct by Butch Lukic
Written by @Paul_Dini
Story by Bruce Timm & Paul Dini
#OnThisDay 1780 Admiral Rodney in HMS SANDWICH defeated a Spanish Fleet off Cape St Vincent, Portugal. After the battle he re-supplied the besieged garrisons at Gibraltar and Minorca. The victory at St Vincent owes much to @RoyalNavy ships speed due to having copper sheath hulls.
#OnThisDay 1766 the marquess of Rockingham urged the king to offer Pitt the Elder a place in #government:
"the events of yesterday in the House of Commons have shown the amazing powers & influence which Mr. Pitt has whenever he takes part in debate"
#HistParl #Parliament
Happy Birthday Berthe Morisot!
https://t.co/FKszq2rH3a
Berthe Morisot - Julie Manet and her Greyhound Laerte, 1893
#art #arthistory #ArtLovers #DonneInArte #painting #museum #culture #ArteYArt #ScrivoArte #DonneAmiche #Artwit #ontheblog #OnThisDay #OTD #impressionism
Born #onthisday1913 Eugène Brands Dutch childlike #painter & early member of the COBRA #avantgarde art movement Participated in the 1946 group exhibition "Young Painters" in Amsterdam’s Stedelijk Museum filling a room with his work In 1949 he showcased his art in …
#ArtHistory 1857
Alice Pike Barney was #bornonthisday in #Cincinnati.
#art #artist #artists #fineart #americanart #modernart #painter #painting #paintings #portrait #portraits #discoverher
Artist Henri Fantin-Latour was born #onthisday in 1836. L'Aurore et la Nuit shows female figures representing Dawn and Night, with Night slipping away as the day awakes!
Born #OnThisDay in 1684: French Painter #JeanBaptistevanLoo (1684-1745)
Portrait of #AugustaofSaxeGotha, Princess of Wales (1719-72), 1742
#FrenchArt #Rococo #vanLoo #Hanover
Born #OnThisDay in 1841: French painter #BertheMorisot (1841-95)
Portrait of Julie Manet with a Parakeet, 1890
#WomenArtists #FrenchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1841: French painter #BertheMorisot (1841-95)
Portrait of a Young Girl with Hat, 1887-95
#WomenArtists #FrenchArt