Thread: Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808-79) died on this day. He is considered the greatest caricaturist in history (by me 😉) & he even went to gaol for lampooning the French king. His painting style employs an impressionist approach combined with acute observation.

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February 5, 1770, birthday of French naturalist & mineralogist Alexandre Brongniart. Together with Cuvier he published one of the 1st stratigraphic sections & geological maps in 1808, showing the stratigraphy of the basin of Paris
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Spain was invaded in 1808 & although he did produce work for the imposed court he sought to remain neutral. Lady with Fan (1806-7), Knife Grinder (1808-12), Maja & Celestina (1808-12) & The Colossus (1808)

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Born Carl Spitzweg German Viewed as 1of the most important Biedermeier era artists Later & drawings are often humorous with many of his works depicting sharply characterized eccentrics like The Hypochondriac (1865)

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He was born in Suffolk to a family who owned Flatford Mill. After school he took over the family business before enrolling in the RA schools. He was influenced by Ruisdael & Gainsborough. Church in Trees (c1800), Trentham Park (c1801) & Landscape, 1808

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Initially he painted landscapes before, as his reputation grew, he turned to genre by 1808. His first works were shown at the 1804 RA exhibition. Suffolk Landscape (c1810), John Varley (1814) & Horses (1816). Varley was his brother-in-law.

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This is How Useful Men Usually End Up c.1808

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Born in 1779: Princess (1779-1826), aka Empress of Russia as wife of Tsar

Portrait by Jean-Laurent (1743-1808), 1805

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Alexandre-Charles Guillemot.1786-1831. Erasistratus Discovering the Cause of Antiochus' Disease.1808.

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Warrior with drawn sword(1808)
Jean-Eugène-Charles Alberti
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Hexenritt [Witches’ Ride] (c. 1875) by Carl Spitzweg (Germany, 1808-1885).

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Be Vd. que expresión, pues no lo cree el marido - Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (1808 - 1814)

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アンヌ=ルイ・ジロデ=トリオゾン『アタラの埋葬』1808年 ルーヴル美術館

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The Great Morning by Philipp Otto Runge, 1808
Morning by Hans Dieter

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