John Gould died in 1881. He did as much as anyone to popularise Australian mammals. The artworks - by HC Richter - in his books remain among the most used images of several extinct species today, including oolacunta, crescent nailtail wallabies and rabbit-rats.

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Born in 1796: American painter (1796-1881)

Portrait of James Armstrong Thome (1813-73), ca. 1840

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The Angel of Death | 1881 |
Evelyn De Morgan >> turned it

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🐼 [Plates prepared for an unpublished monograph on the mammalian orders Cete and Sirenia]
Washington, D.C.?: U.S. G.P.O.?, 1881?
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🐳 Histoire naturelle de Lacépède: .
Paris: Furne, Jouvet et cie ; Jouvet et cie, succ., 1876-1881.
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Fuga di Rochefort 1881 Édouard Manet (1832–1883)

143 × 114 cmKunsthaus Zurich

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The avant-garde Russian painter Mikhail Larionov was born in 1881, from the very beginning of his career, he was making an enormous impact on the formation and evolution of the 20th century New Art. He is regarded as the forefather of abstract art.
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Léon de Smet ( 1881 - 1966 ) Women

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PABLO PICASSO (1881-1973)
Jaqueline Lisant, 1964

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アンリ・ファンタン=ラトゥール『ボウルの薔薇』1881年 シカゴ美術館

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🌷💐 Happy Tulip day!

"Album van Eeden. Haarlem's Flora. Afbeeldingen in kleurendruk van verschillende bol- en knolgewassen", from 1872-1881. You can enjoy this complete catalogue of a tulip farmer online! https://t.co/T3NLrkkX4A

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🎨Leo Gestel (Dutch, 1881 - 1941)

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Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910)

On the Beach, Tynemouth, 1881

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prints
Yoshimoto Gesso (Japanese, 1881 - 1936)

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Born in Belfast, he attended the Académie Julian (1870s). He returned & was associated with the Glasgow School. In 1888 he was chosen to depict the Queen & Glasgow Int’nl Exhibit. Pious Reflections (1879-80), a Lady Sewing (1881) A Conquest(1881) & Between the Sittings (1882)

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