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French Impressionist Painter Claude Monet born #OnThisDay in 1840*
Claude Monet Reading by Pierre-Auguste Renoir*
Today we remember artist Edward Ardizzone who died #OnThisDay Nov 8 1979
He illustrated A Child's Christmas in Wales
#OnThisDay in 1847, Bram Stoker, author of the best seller novel “Dracula” is born in Dublin, Ireland (167 years ago)
#OnThisDay in 1605, Guy Fawkes is arrested in an attempt to blow up the British Parliament (The Gunpowder Plot)
#OnThisDay in 1962…Baby Jane Hudson made her comeback. #HappyHalloween #BetteDavis
There is no enjoyment like reading.. Jane Austen's first novel, Sense and Sensibility, was published #onthisday 1811*
Georges Bizet, French 19th Century composer famous for the opera Carmen, born #onthisday in 1838* Happy Birthday!
Everything you can imagine is real. - Pablo Picasso born #OnThisDay in 1881*
Young Girl Reading a Book on the Beach*
#onthisdayillustrated October 24th, 1901: Annie Edson Taylor: the first person to go over Niagara Falls in a Barrel
Jean-Antoine Watteau was born #OnThisDay in 1684. His painting 'The Scale of Love' is on display in Lower Gallery E
Edgar Alan Poe who died #OnThisDay in 1849. #poe #alanpoe #portrait #illustration #ilustración #retratoPoe
"The reader became the book." -Wallace Stevens is born #OnThisDay in 1879*
·Patti Smith reading Wallace Stevens*
#onthisdayillustrated September 22nd, 1994: Friends debuts on US TV. #illustration #friends http://t.co/XR8MKdeIOQ
#onthisdayillustrated August 13th 1964: Gwynne Evans and Peter Allen become the last two men to be hung in Britain.
―George R.R. Martin's 'A Game of Thrones' is published by Bantam Spectra/US & Voyager Books/UK*
#OnThisDay in 1996*
#onthisdayillustrated August 3rd 1936: Jesse Owens wins the 100 m at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. http://t.co/krZEjSShDr
Artist Vincent van Gogh died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Auvers, France, at age 37* #OnThisDay 1890*
Raymond Chandler, creator of detective Philip Marlowe, is born in Chicago #onthisday in 1888*
#onthisdayillustrated July 7th 1953: Che Guevara goes on a trip from Bolivia. Which features in Motorcycle Diaries