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Today’s outdoor exercise, a visit to the Italian Gardens in Hyde Park. There sits a statue to Edward Jenner (1749-1823) who pioneered vaccination against smallpox, which at the time killed c.10% of people in Britain. The statue is by Scottish sculptor William Calder Marshall. 1/3
Born #OnThisDay in 1807: #JosephineofLeuchtenberg (1807-76), Queen of Sweden & Norway as spouse of King #OscarI
Portrait by #JosephKarlStieler (1781-1858), 1823
#JoséphinedeBeauharnais #Beauharnais #Bernadotte
Pilgrimage to the Fountain of San Isidro / The Holy Office, 1823 https://t.co/dDEdgwc4be #franciscogoya #romanticism
The Admiral's House (The Grove), 1823 #johnconstable #englishart
Born #OnThisDay in 1756: Scottish portrait painter Henry #Raeburn (1756-1823)
Portrait of Portrait of James and John Lee Allen, early 1790s
#ScottishArt #BritishArt #Regency #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1756: Scottish portrait painter Henry #Raeburn (1756-1823)
Portrait of a Boy and Rabbit, 1814
#ScottishArt #BritishArt #Regency #ChildrenInArt
A fun part about early 19th Century history is the abundance of Cruikshank cartoons satirizing contemporary events. Like this about Louis XVIII’s 1823 invasion of Spain, “Old Bumblehead the 18th trying on the Napoleon boots.” From Episode 18: https://t.co/N5W51BxQug
Image: Northern Sea in the Moonlight🌕, Caspar David Friedrich, between 1823 and 1824
#art #landscape #painting #paintingoftheday
More Rotherhithe research. Edwin Edwards (1823-1879) the Upper Pool of London with St Pauls in the distance. Close to the Angel? Painting (Birmingham) and etching, neither appear to be dated.
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Caspar David Friedrich - The Northern Sea in Moonlight, 1823-24, oil on canvas, 22 x 30 cm, National Gallery, Prague
Pilgrimage to the Fountain of San Isidro / The Holy Office, 1823 #franciscogoya #spanishart
He was born in Marseille but moved to Paris & was always keen on art to his father’s distress. In 1822 he apprenticed to an artist & in 1823 he attended the Académie Suisse. His style was his own. Daumier’s self-portrait (1869)
#WellingtonWednesday - By Jove! He was a great general but a godawful shot, the Duke of Wellington blasts the nose clean off one of his friends when out on a hunting expedition in Ipswich on February 5th 1823
3/10 An illustration of a tawny owl, by #JemimaBlackburn (1823–1909), from plate 12 of Birds from Moidart and elsewhere (1895). Courtesy of @BioDivLibrary #SuberbOwl #artherstory #hernaturalhistory
Born #OnThisDay in 1754: Charles Maurice de #Talleyrand-Périgord (1754-1838), French politician under #LouisXVI, #Napoleon, #LouisXVIII & #LouisPhilippe
Portrait by Pierre-Paul #Prudhon (1758-1823), 1807
#FrenchArt
New Post: Morning Discussion #1823 https://t.co/8VCAjKaNq9 #brony #mlp #Mylittlepony
🎼🎼 Come On Eveline 🎼🎼
A French satire from January 1823 featuring a brave young lady preventing herself from being de-flowered by one of Dexy's Midnight Runners