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Born #OnThisDay in 1735: English painter #NathanielDanceHolland (1735-1811)
Portrait of Tobias Smollet (1721-71), ca. 1764
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Born #OnThisDay in 1735: English painter #NathanielDanceHolland (1735-1811)
Portrait of #Mari Walpole, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1736-1807), ca. 1766-9
#DanceHolland #BritishArt #Georgian
Born #OnThisDay in 1735: English painter #NathanielDanceHolland (1735-1811)
Self-portrait, ca. 1773
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Happy birthday
Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland
(1735-1811)
One of the earliest cartoonists and painter
#cartoon #cartoonart #classiccartoons #satire #drawing #penandinkdrawing #art #artwork #artist #caricature #happybirthday #theyellowpaintbrush
A Lesson in Politeness, #London May 6th 1811 -Old git placed in a tricky situation: "I am sorry to intrude in this abrupt manner, but do you know Sir you are in bed with my Wife?"
Lover: "I beg ten thousand pardons... she shall be at your service in the course of half an hour!"
Flatford Mill from a Lock on the Stour, 1811 #englishart #johnconstable
From Yarmouth to Wales
A satire that the Prince Regent tried to suppress after news that his sprained ankle from 'dancing' at Oatlands in autumn 1811 was in fact the result of a spat with Lord Yarmouth, who reportedly booted him right up the arse for trying it on with his missus.
Throwing my best Regency "hats" in the ring for #besthat themed #curatorbattle today. Here's some outrageous headgear in the shape of dragons, ships, ostrich feathers and lightning bolts: 'Lumps of Pudding', a cartoon from 1811 by William Heath after HW Bunbury @BrightonMuseums
In 1811 he visited Salisbury to paint the spire. Barges on the Stour (1811), E Bergholt (c1813) & Golding Constable’s Flower Garden (1815) The latter is a breath of fresh air!
Barges on the Stour, with Dedham Church in the Distance by John Constable 1811
Oil on Paper
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Born #OnThisDay in 1746: Spanish romantic painter and printmaker Francisco José de #Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828)
Portrait of Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos (1744-1811), 1798
#FranciscoGoya #SpanishArt
Laskarina Boubouli(na) (1771-1825) was a heroine of the Greek War of Independence. Born in Constantinople in prison while her mother was visiting her prisoner father, who participated in the Orlov revolt. After her second husband died in battle 1811 she took over family’s ships.
We have a gem of a #rarebook for you today, John Mawe's 1813 Treatise on Diamonds. Mawe was a British mineralogist who opened a shop on The Strand in 1811 close to where the IET is now based in Savoy Place.
Half a long life spent as sailor and the other half as painter, unsurprisingly (but not exclusively) of marine art of the Age of Sail: Nicholas Pocock, b. #OTD 1740 in Bristol.
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Wreck, 1811
Fleet of East Indiamen, 1803
'Victory' in Naples Bay, 1804
Duckworth's Action, 1808
Natural history and the park: A new work of animals: principally designed from the fables of Æsop, Gay, and Phædrus: containing one hundred plates, by Samuel Howitt, 1811.....https://t.co/0DJp5ep4jI
The Dutch Burgomaster, Giuseppe Longhi, 1811 https://t.co/b2TeH47i05 #cmaopenaccess #cmaprints
「フィンランドの衣装」(1811)
https://t.co/NPUkhcWZPD
19世紀初期イギリスで刊行されたロシアの民族衣装図集「ロシア帝国の衣装」より。
北欧〜中央アジア〜シベリアまでの広大な地域に住む様々な民族の衣装を、美しい手彩色銅版画で記録した貴重な民族学資料です。
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Por no tener piernas - Goya y Lucientes, Francisco de (1810 - 1811)
Interior of a cottage at #Rievaulx, by Charles West Cope RA, (1811-1890). The watercolour shows the interior of the cottage and the garden beyond.' (Image courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum) #Victorian #Yorkshire #artist