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#ArtHistory 1897
Germaine Krull was #BornOnThisDay in what is now #Poland.
"With just one click, the lens captures the exterior world at the same time it captures the #photographer’s inner world."
#art #artist #artists #modernart #fineart #fineartphotography #bnwphotography #otd
Born #OnThisDay 1489 in Westminster Palace, #London: Margaret Tudor, the first #Tudor princess and sister of Henry VIII. Read all about her life in this new #biography by @MmeGuillotine, out now: https://t.co/7D876J7Bce #TudorHistory
Happy Birthday to William Blake #bornonthisday in 1757! 'The Ancient of Days', from our collection, was first painted by Blake in 1794. He repeatedly returned to it, redrawing & repainting it for the rest of his life. This one was coloured by Blake just before his death in 1827.
The Queens has come! “Off with her head!” #onthisday in 1865 Lewis Caroll's #aliceinWonderland has been published in the US https://t.co/RbeAyr5GDI
Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct was opened #onthisday 1805 tocarry the Llangollen canal across the river Dee valley. It became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2005. #ice200 find out more at https://t.co/eX5q91NLpo
Dem Unersättlichen in jeglichem Genuss wird selbst das Glück zum Überdruss.
Ludwig Bechstein
* 24.11.1801
#Zitat #BornOnThisDay
#ArtHistory 1890
Jeanne Mammen was #BornOnThisDay in #Berlin
“I have always wanted to be just a pair of eyes, walking through the world unseen, only to be able to see others.”
#art #artist #fineart #modernart #paintings #painting #portrait #germanart #BOTD #OnThisDay #OTD #quotes
#ArtHistory 1819
Elisabeth Jerichau-Baumann was #BornOnThisDay in what is now @Warsaw.
#art #artist #artists #fineart #modernart #paintings #painting #portrait #portraits #polishart #germanart #danishart #BOTD #OnThisDay #OTD
Illustration from The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf, who was born #OnThisDay in 1858 and in 1909 became the first female writer to win the Nobel Prize. Read Jenny Watson on the complex depths beneath her seemingly simple tales: https://t.co/QSVOZsRbmk #OTD
#OnThisDay in 1759 Admiral Hawke defeated the French at the Battle of Quiberon Bay during the 7 years war. This action ended French Naval superiority and prevented a planned invasion of 🇬🇧. @RoyalNavy
#OnThisDay in 1950, writer Jack Kerouac (28) married Joan Haverty, who gave birth to his only daughter, Jan Kerouac.
#OnThisDay 2008 The 4th Type 45 Destroyer, @HMSDragon is launched at Scotstoun on the Clyde. The ship was launched with Y Ddraig Goch (The Red Dragon) of #wales painted on the bow. It was removed on 2011 but restored by 2016 following a campaign that sees it proudly worn today.
#ArtHistory 1930
Dame Elisabeth Frink was #bornonthisday in #Suffolk.
#art #artist #artists #fineart #modernart #britishart #figurativeart #sculpture #sculptor #botd #onthisday #otd #discoverher
The founder of french #impressionist #painting #monet was #BornOnThisDay
#OnThisDay in 1995, the Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders episode “Love Struck” debuted. Watch it here: https://t.co/ZIrz5P0k3h
#jewelriders
#OnThisDay 1035 King Cnut died. Here he is at Dover, famously ordering the sea to turn back, before admitting 'I hadn't quite understood the full extent of this.' #StupidCnut
#ArtHistory 1935
Esther Mahlangu was #bornonthisday in #SouthAfrica.
#art #artists #artist #fineart #contemporaryart #paintings #painting #mural #africanart #folkart #botd #onthisday #otd #discoverher
#WW1OnThisDay Cartoon by Captain Bruce Bairnsfather, 'Fragments from France', keeping-up morale with shared experiences..
'Dr Livingstone, I presume?'
#OnThisDay in 1871, Henry Morton Stanley, a journalist and explorer, found David Livingstone ill and despondent in Tanzania, having abandoned his search for the source of the Nile.
Explore this story at https://t.co/9zFy76ox2v