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He travelled to Wales & Devon. The Waterfalls, Pistil Mawddach, N Wales (1835-6), Llywyngwynedd & Part of Llyn-y-ddina (1835), N Coast of Devon with Lundy Island (c1835) & Harlech Castle (c1830-60s). He was continuing the tradition of artists exploring Burke’s sublime & beautiful

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2020-05-25

Vigée Le Brun died in Paris, aged 86. Her ravishing work is her epitaph & demonstration of her determination to paint no matter what challenges were thrown at her. Madame Baudin (1835), A Lady (1831) & Aglaé Angélique Gabrielle de Gramont (1824)

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2020-03-30

Antoine-Jean Gros (16 March 1771 – 25 June 1835) was a French painter.

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2020-03-27

Born in 1771: French painter (1771-1835)

Portrait of Celeste Coltellini, Madame Meuricoffre, 1790s

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2020-03-17

Born in 1771: French painter (1771-1835)

Portrait of (1763-1814), 1808


Musée Masséna, Nice

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2020-03-17

Born in 1771: French painter (1771-1835)

Portrait of Count Jean-Antoine Chaptal (1756-1832), 1824

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2020-03-17

Vigée Le Brun died in Paris, aged 86. Her ravishing work is her epitaph & demonstration of her determination to paint no matter what challenges were thrown at her. Madame Baudin (1835), A Lady (1831) & Aglaé Angélique Gabrielle de Gramont (1824)

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2020-02-22

Born in 1768: Holy Roman Emperor / Emperor of Austria (1768-1835)

Portrait by (1803-87), 1834

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2020-02-12

Don't forget to keep your pets inside tonight on Night Here's some animal art. The Boa Constrictor (1867), The Cheetah (1886), The Hoolock Gibbon (1835) and The Striped Hyena (1831) - by artist, Aloys Zötl (Austria, 1803-1887).

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2019-11-06

Sparrows and Amaranthus Tricolor by Tanomura Chikuden (1777–1835)

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2019-10-13

Desplein, a doctor of medicine, is a character from Honoré de Balzac's "Comédie humaine". It was created after the surgeon Guillaume Dupuytren (1777-1835).
He is a famous surgeon at the Hôtel-Dieu in Paris and the professor of Horace Bianchon.

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2019-10-11

ANIMAL ART. The Constrictor (1867), The (1886), The Hoolock (1835) and The Striped (1831). By Austrian painter, Aloys Zötl (1803-1887).

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2019-10-05

Today marks the 50th anniversary of the historic Apollo 11 moon landing!

Long before that was possible, James Arthur O’Connor painted this moon-gazing nocturnal beauty.

Moonlight Scene (c.1835) from our collection is currently on loan to .

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2019-07-20

Charles Nicolas Lafond (1774–1835) Sapho singing to Homer

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2019-07-15

It’s still

These spectacular are from Férussac & D’Orbigny’s ‘Histoire naturelle: generale et particuliere des cephalopodes’ (1835)

copy was digitised by for last year —> https://t.co/ESbAIsI12V

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2019-06-26

John Constable (b. 11-6-1776)
'Stonehenge' (1835)
Watercolour
38.7 x 59.7 cm

You were expecting 'The Hay Wain'?

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2019-06-11

Today's Classic:

.時鳥我身ばかりに降雨か
hototogisu waga mi bakari ni furu ame ka

cuckoo--
is this rain falling
only on me?

Kobayashi Issa

Image (ukiyo-e): 'Cuckoo Flying in the Rain' (ca.1835), Utagawa Hiroshige

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2019-05-06

🙏🏻Donato👏🏼e per la x te/voi ...

“Di tutte le stelle tu sei la più bella, stella della sera.”
(Saffo)

Antoine-Jean Gros (1771-1835)
“La morte di Saffo” 1801
Museo Baron Gérard, Bayeux

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2019-04-19