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A demon as a mendicant monk, Kawanabe Kyôsai, 1850 - 1889. Rijks Museum (AK-RAK-2000-14). https://t.co/djOdt0vw47.
Paul Helleu dibujando, con su esposa, 1889. Museo Brooklyn, Nueva York. John Singer Sargent
Today in Comics History: R.F. Outcault, the creator of the Yellow Kid and Buster Brown (and a seminal figure in American cartooning, both creatively and from a business standpoint), was born on January 14, 1863. (RFO was born “Outcalt” and added the “u” in 1889.)
Bored so here are a few more of #MyFavoritePaintings! Frederic Edwin Church - Moonrise - 1889.
Alice Havers, 'But Mary Kept all these Things and Pondered them in her Heart', c.1888.
Havers (1850-90), who was originally from Norfolk, exhibited this intense and affectionate portrayal of motherhood at the Royal Academy in 1888 and the Paris Salon in 1889. #MerryNMSmas
6 December 1889. Jefferson Davis died (aged 81). He was the first and only president of the US Confederate States from 1861 to 1865. As a Democrat, he had represented Mississippi in the US Senate and the House of Representatives before the American Civil War began.
Long before adult colouring books Walter Crane designed this children’s Painting Book, 1889. Disappointed in his artistic career he became the ‘academician of the nursery’. Here he gave a blank & a coloured plate for children to work from. #FolkoreThursday
Ending the week with 'Sous l'oranger' (Under the Orange Tree) by Berthe Morisot from 1889.
Berthe Morisot is one of my favourite artists of all time and she is such a fascinating artist when we look at the Impressionist movement as a whole. In fact… https://t.co/0rYOs0ii9u
Don't you just love Marie Spartali Stillman's artwork? Here's her "The Enchanted Garden of Messer Ansaldo," 1889.
“Campo de trigo verde con cipreses” es uña paisaje postimpresionista de Vincent Van Gogh realizado en 1889.
➡️Illustration pour le roman de Victor Hugo "Notre Dame de Paris", avant 1889.
➡️Esmeralda donnant à boire à Quasimodo sur le pilori, 1903.
Nicolas Luc-Olivier Merson (1846-1920), peintre illustrateur français.
His agreed masterpiece Christ’s Entry into Brussels was painted in 1889. It has been described as presaging the Expressionism of the 20th C. Ensor identified with Christ’s persecution! Brussels (1889), Masks Confronting Death (1888) & The Astonishment of the Mask Wouse (1889)
#VanGogh of the Day: Wheatfield with Cypresses, September 1889. Oil on canvas, 72.1 × 90.9 cm. National Gallery, London. @NationalGallery
English painter and printmaker C R W Nevinson made these powerful images of soldiers marching, resting and fighting during the First World War.
The artist was born #onthisday in 1889. See more of his work on our Collection online: https://t.co/mc65aIxM6x