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The Blind Girl & Self-Portrait, Sir John Everett Millais, born in 1829. We're having a change in our Pre-Raphaelite galleries after June 10th, so last chance to view in Birmingham for a while. Or you could buy a print... https://t.co/J36woqi69F

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2018-06-08

On All Things today we take a look at a sketch of a ball at Almack's in 1815, attended by Beau Brummell who was born 240 years ago 7th June 1778.
https://t.co/rghpFkWtmm

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2018-06-07

Born 7Jun1757 Georgiana Cavendish, was an English socialite, style icon, author, and activist. She married William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire and garnered much attention during her lifetime. https://t.co/Hy8yjsTUlL

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2018-06-07

Born the enfant terrible of the art world continues to shock and awe with his iconic body of work. You might not be able to own an original but we’ve got the next best thing waiting to be snapped up on our online marketplace > https://t.co/5K9ISFhiok

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2018-06-07

Today would have been Gladys MacCabe’s 100th birthday. Gladys formed the 'Ulster Society of Women Artists' in 1957 and was a fashion & arts correspondent during the 1960s. We're lucky to hold some of her works in our collection including 'The Bus Queue' (1948-49).

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2018-06-05

to who was in 1895 (making this his 123rd birthday!) This is 'The Shoe-Black' from 1955. See more of his Collection works here: https://t.co/HLdXulAZZL Image: © Estate of John David Roberts, courtesy of the William Roberts Society

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2018-06-05

🎂 🎂
Released in Europe 🇪🇺 26 years ago today

F-Zero (Nintendo)
https://t.co/Dp22lrkETj

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2018-06-04

in 1858, Italian astronomer Giovanni Battista Donati discovered his namesake comet, illustrated here in Edmund Weiß' Bilderatlas der Sternenwelt (1888). Further information on Donati's Comet via : https://t.co/SxSPCyawfy

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2018-06-03

25 years ago, 'Batman: The Animated Series' lost an Emmy Award for "Outstanding Children's Animated Program" to 'Tiny Toons Adventures'. (May 26, 1993)

This was Bruce Timm's reaction.

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2018-05-27

PRINCIPAL SAM'S CALENDAR:

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Miles Davis was born on this day in 1926.





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2018-05-26

PRINCIPAL SAM'S CALENDAR:

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Today is Turtle Day.

There is a turtle in my new book, Principal Sam and the Three Bears.




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2018-05-23

in 1907 cartoonist and creator of the the beloved comic was born! 🎉📚🎂

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2018-05-22

Born in 1844—Henri Rousseau was a self-taught artist known for his visionary paintings—in particular, those on the theme of the jungle. Though Rousseau depicted exotic, distant locales, he never set foot outside France.

See "The Waterfall" on view in Modern Art.

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2018-05-22

Landscape by Albrecht Dürer, who was born in 1471. While most of his work consisted of oil paintings and woodcut engravings, Dürer also painted a number of watercolour landscapes in his travels to and from Italy, particularly in the Alps of southern Tyrol, Italy.

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2018-05-21

Happy Birthday to Northern Renaissance painter and engraver Albrecht Dürer, who was born in 1471.
In 'Melencolia I' (1514), Dürer pictured an allegory of the creative melancholy of the artist, and this engraving has often been interpreted as a symbolic self-portrait.

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2018-05-21

in 1974 Marshal Josip Broz Tito is elected president for life of communist Yugoslavia. Here on the cover of Men Only, 1953

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2018-05-16

in 1890 Beatrix sells first drawings to Hildesheimer & Faulkner, London. Used as greetings cards and as illustrations to a book of rhymes, A Happy Pair by Frederic E. Weatherly.

Source picture: https://t.co/Yec9VSQyeI

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2018-05-15

Born in 1727, we celebrate acclaimed British artist Thomas Gainsbourgh. Discover paintings in our collection available as prints for your home: https://t.co/VCgcpWWawG

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2018-05-14