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Born #OnThisDay in 1754: #LouisXVI, King of France (1754-93)
Portrait Joseph #Duplessis (1725-1802), 1775
#Bourbon
Born #OnThisDay in 1836: #MarieHenrietteofAustria (1836-1902), Queen of Belgium as spouse of King Leopold II
Portrait by #LouisGallait (1810-87), 1876
#Habsburg #SaxeCoburgGotha
#Bridge engineer William Tierney Clark was born #OnThisDay, 1783. Engineer for Marlow Bridge, original Hammersmith Bridge and Szecheny chain bridge in Budapest. https://t.co/aztQmuAeCx Archives online at https://t.co/MBBzeO5EhZ
Born #onthisday1924 David Boyd OAM Australian #artist & member of Boyd artistic dynasty Widely known as leading Australian potters before #painting controversial symbolic paintings on Australian explorers focused on the tragic history of Aboriginal Tasmanians (1957)
Born #onthisday1875 Eugene Lanceray Russian #painter #graphicdesigner #sculptor #illustrator & #mosaicist associated stylistically with influential pre-Revolution art movement the World of Art Fascinated with #Rococo Became infatuated with #Orientalism living in Dagestan
#OnThisDay 8 years ago: working on a 9 cell Superconducting Radio Frequency Cavity at the cavity processing facility in IB4 @Fermilab.
#onthisday in 1922 Michael Collins was shot dead in an ambush in West Cork https://t.co/NxzdAEYyX7
#OnThisDay 1485 Lancastrian contender for the crown Henry Tudor defeats Richard III Yorkist forces, concluding the Wars of the Roses at the Battle of Bosworth, establishing the Tudor dynasty on the English throne. Books on the Wars of the Roses can be found shelved at 942
#OnThisDay 22 August 1620 Oliver Cromwell married Elizabeth Bourchier, daughter of a London fur dealer, at St Giles Church, Cripplegate. They had a devoted relationship & a family of 9 children (8 surviving infancy). Portraits in our collection. #17thCentury #OTD
Did you know that we have a range of prints, accessories and gifts available to purchase at our shop or on @artukdotorg’s website?
A range of Barber artworks are featured, including ‘The Battle of the Beaux and the Belles’ by Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898), born #OnThisDay 1872.
#OnThisDay 1940, the exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky, Marxist theorist and former Red Army head, was assassinated in Mexico by an agent of Stalin. In this work, they are depicted as bloody snakes, battling for eggs symbolizing the future of communism.
Born #OnThisDay in 1725: French painter #JeanBaptisteGreuze (1725-1805)
Portrait of Nicolas-Pierre-Baptiste Anselme, called Baptiste aîné, ca. 1790
#Greuze #FrenchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1765: #WilliamIV, King of the United Kingdom (1765-1837)
Portrait by #MartinArcherShee (1769-1850), ca. 1800
#Hanover
Born #OnThisDay in 1765: #WilliamIV, King of the United Kingdom (1765-1837)
Portrait by #EdwardHarding (1755-1840)
#Hanover
Born #OnThisDay in 1765: #WilliamIV, King of the United Kingdom (1765-1837)
Portrait as a boy with brother #Edward by #BenjaminWest (1738-1820), 1778
#Hanover #ChildrenInArt #BrothersInArt
#OnThisDay
32年前の1990年8月21日、アリス・イン・チェインズのファースト・アルバム『Facelift』がリリースされた。「We Die Young」( UK Vinyl 9位 ) 、「Man in the Box」(US Mainstreem Rock 18位) がヒット、全米アルバム・チャートは42位。
#AliceInChains
#OnThisDay 1996 ist
Rio Rhaiser
Sänger und Texter der Band "Ton, Sthaine, Scherben" verstorben.
Rio, du fehlst
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Died #OnThisDay in 1821: French painter #MarieDeniseVillers (1774-1821), née Lemoine
Portrait by the Artist's sister #MarieVictoireLemoine (1754-1820)
#Villers #FrenchArt #WomenArtists
Born #OnThisDay in 1743: #JeanneBécu, Comtesse du Barry (1743-93), mistress of #LouisXV
Portrait by Élisabeth Louise #VigéeLeBrun (1755-1842), 1782
#MadameduBarry #Bourbon
Corcoran Gallery of Art
Born #OnThisDay in 1743: #JeanneBécu, Comtesse du Barry (1743-93), mistress of #LouisXV
Portrait by Élisabeth Louise #VigéeLeBrun (1755-1842), 1781
#MadameduBarry #Bourbon