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"The Angel Binding Satan", Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg (31 October 1740 – 11 March 1812), French-born British painter

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2023-02-25

"Out of silent mountains and storms of affliction, rusheth my soul into the valleys" (Nietzsche)

Richard Strauss's "An Alpine Symphony" premiered 1915 in Berlin

🎨 Loutherbourg "An Avalanche in the Alps" (1803)

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2022-10-28

The battle of Camperdown (Zeeslag bij Kamperduin) was fought 1797. The British fleet defeated the Batavian Navy (the Dutch were allied of Revolutionary France).
In 1801 Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg RA painted the flagship ‘Vryheid’ at the moment of her surrender.

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2022-10-11

The Vision of the White Horse, 1798
by Philip James De Loutherbourg

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2022-09-10

It’s the last week of ‘Earth: Digging Deep in British Art 1781-2022’ and last chance to see stunners like this fantasy landscape by Thomas Gainsborough and cinematic masterpiece ‘An Avalanche in the Alps’ by Philip James de Loutherbourg

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2022-09-07

It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better ~ Sir Francis Drake (P. Loutherbourg's painting of Drake and the English fleet defeating the Spanish Armada)

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2022-08-21

Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 'A philosopher in a moonlit churchyard' (1790)

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2022-08-08

Philip Jacques de Loutherbourg (1740-1812)

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2022-05-11

Philip James De Loutherbourg - The Vision of the White Horse (1798)

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2022-03-16

11 mars 1812 : mort à Londres de Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, peintre de marine.

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2022-03-11

"... the Beauties of Nature and Wonders of Art”

Anglo-French Romanticist painter Philip James de Loutherbourg died 1820 in Chiswick

🎨 "Avalanche" (1803)

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2022-03-11

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“A man who governs his passions is master of the world. We must either command them, or be enslaved by them. It is better to be a hammer than an anvil.”
Artist: Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, 1740–1812

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2022-01-25

"Ramsgate"

Fine aquatint by William Pickett after the artist Philippe Jacques de Loutherbourg.

Published ca 1824.
https://t.co/FuKSyx1p1q

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2021-10-30

Painting by Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg of the victory of the 1st Coalition on the Glorious First of June (#OnThisDay 1794).
https://t.co/04c447xuFT

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2021-06-01

Fought 1st June 1794, the (not very imaginatively named) 'Glorious First of June'.

Painting by Philip James de Loutherbourg

Some imaginative tactics from British commander Lord Howe, though both sides claimed victory.
For full details see thread by Navy Queen

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2021-06-01

11 mars 1812 : mort de Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg, peintre de marine.

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2021-03-12

The sense of detail of Philippe-Jacques de Loutherbourg (1740-1812 )

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2021-02-26

"An Avalanche in the Alps" (1803) - Philip James De Loutherbourg.

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2020-10-13

"The Angel Binding Satan", Philip James de Loutherbourg (1740 – 1812), French-born British

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2020-10-06