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Born #OnThisDay in 1758: French painter Pierre-Paul #Prudhon (1758-1823)
Portrait of David Johnston, 1808
#FrenchArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1758: French painter Pierre-Paul #Prudhon (1758-1823)
Portrait of Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck (1761-1825), Catharina Nahuys (1770-1844) and their children Catharina (1790-1842) & Gerrit (1794-1863), 1801-2
#FrenchArt #FamilyPortrait #ChildrenInArt
Born #OnThisDay in 1758: French painter Pierre-Paul #Prudhon (1758-1823)
Portrait of Lavinie Barbiet-Walbonne, later Baronne Darriule
#FrenchArt
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
Henry Raeburn (4 March 1756 – 8 July 1823) was a Scottish portrait painter.
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
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
Happy Bday, Alfred Russel Wallace (born #OTD 1823)! 🎉
Wallace authored one of the most popular books on scientific exploration in the 1800s — "The Malay Archipelago" (1869), detailing his 8 year expedition to Southeast Asia. In #BHLib via @NHM_Library: https://t.co/7vVDUWh0wT
Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) :
- The Oaktree in the Snow (1829)
- Inside the forest in the moonlight (vers 1823-1830)
- Rocky ravine in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains (1822-1823)
- The Cross Beside The Baltic (vers 1815)
Saturn Devouring His Son (1823) by Francisco Goya (1746-1828). Many possible interpretations, inc. (1) conflict between youth & age (2) merciless of time (3) God's anger (4) the consumption by the state of it's people by wars & revolution. #SpanishArt #Romanticism
Saturn Devouring His Son (1823) by Francisco Goya (Spain, 1746-1828). Inspired by the Greek myth of the Titan, Cronus (Romanised to 'Saturn'). #SpanishArt #Victorian
New year, new merchandise!
We designed these t-shirts using an image from @RCSEdArchive's copy of 'A System of Anatomical Plates of the Human Body,' (1823) by John Lizars. They are available in kids and adults sizes!
Tausch's "Hortus Canalius" (1823) describes and illustrates a selection of the plants found at the botanical garden of Emanuel Joseph Malabaila von Canal. It features #SciArt lithographed after F. Both. Explore the work in #BHLib via @HarvardLibrary ➡️ https://t.co/vYmiWxL8gX
New to the #BHLib @Flickr: "Hortus Canalius" (1823), by Ignaz Friedrich Tausch, illustrating & describing a selection of the plants found at the botanical garden of Emanuel Joseph Malabaila von Canal. Explore the #SciArt thanks to @HarvardLibrary: https://t.co/dmfY17bGoo
Plate 28 : Colossal Head of Red Granite by Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778-1823) from Plates Illustrative of the Researches and Operations in Egypt and Nubia (1820).