Nicholas #Hilliard (1547-1619)
Portrait of #MargaretDouglas (1515-1578), Countess of Lennox who was #BornOnThisDay
1575
Rijksmuseum
#Douglas #Tudor #Stewart #Stuart

Unknown Artist
Portrait of #MargaretDouglas (1515-1578), Countess of Lennox who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1572
Royal Collection
#Douglas #Tudor #Stewart #Stuart

#HappyBirthday to Sir Alfred #Munnings who was #Bornonthisday in 1878 🐴 🎂

“He was the stable, the artist, the poet, the very land itself!” - Dame Laura Knight described Munnings in her Autobiography.

Frans #Pourbus the Younger (1569-1622)
Portrait of #MariaMaddalenaofAustria (1589-1631), Grand Duchess of Tuscany , who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1603-4
Kunsthistorisches Museum
#Habsburg #Medici

#RobertLefèvre (1756-1830)
Portrait of #PaulineDuchambge (1778-1858), who was #BornOnThisDay
Before 1830
Château de Versailles
#Duchambge #PaulinedeMontet
#WomenComposers

🎉Happy Birthday to #KirinoNatsuo, #bornonthisday in 1951! She is a pioneering voice in Japanese feminist noir. Her acclaimed “OUT”, “Grotesque” and “Real World” explore violence, inequality, patriarchy and the dark psychology of contemporary Japan. #CrimeFiction

For Magda Szabó, #BornOnThisDay in 1917, my thoughts on THE DOOR (tr Len Rix).

An extraordinary portrayal of a complex, co-dependent relationship between a Hungarian writer & her enigmatic housekeeper. This phenomenal novel contains multitudes! #BookSky 💙📚

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Venetian painter Francesco Guardi was #BornOnThisDay in 1712 👨‍🎨

Like Canaletto, he painted scenes of 18th century Venice.

'View of the Palazzo Loredan dell'Ambasciatore on the Grand Canal, Venice' by Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) 📸 Amgueddfa Cymru

#INKTOBER2026, DAY FOUR. The legendary Susan Sarandon turns 80 today! (Not sure that this is finished, but it's what I've got. 😛) #inktober #humanartist #blackandwhiteart #bornonthisday

Sidney Paget, Illustrator, #BornOnThisDay in 1860, in Clerkenwell, London

He was responsible for the illustrations accompanying the original publication of Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories in ‘The Strand Magazine’.

#VittorioMatteoCorcos (1859-1933), who was #BornOnThisDay
Portrait of Countess Lia Silvia Goldman Clerici
1911
#Corcos

#VittorioMatteoCorcos (1859-1933), who was #BornOnThisDay
Portrait of Diane de la Bouchère
1903
#Corcos

#VittorioMatteoCorcos (1859-1933), who was #BornOnThisDay
Portrait of the Contessa Nerina Pisani Volpi di Misurata
1906
#Corcos

#VittorioMatteoCorcos (1859-1933), who was #BornOnThisDay
Portrait of Corinna Salmon
1893
#Corcos

#VittorioMatteoCorcos (1859-1933), who was #BornOnThisDay
Portrait of the Countess Carolina Sommaruga Maraini
1901
#Corcos

#VittorioMatteoCorcos (1859-1933), who was #BornOnThisDay
Portrait of Lucia Vecchi
1888
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Firenze
#Corcos

#VittorioMatteoCorcos (1859-1933), who was #BornOnThisDay
Portrait of Jane Crum-Ewing (1830-1908)
1885
#Corcos

#VittorioMatteoCorcos (1859-1933), who was #BornOnThisDay
Portrait of a woman with a pearl necklace
1895
#Corcos

#VittorioMatteoCorcos (1859-1933), who was #BornOnThisDay
Portrait of Franca Viviani della Robbia
1923
Gallerie degli Uffizi, Firenze
#Corcos

#HansvonAachen (1552-1615)
Portrait of #AnnaofTyrol (1585-1618), Holy Roman Empress, Queen of Hungary & Bohemia, who was #BornOnThisDay
1604
Kunsthistorisches Museum
#AnnavonÖsterreichTirol #Habsburg