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BIRTH: 1690 LANCRET
^ Born on 22 January 1690: Nicolas Lancret, French genre painter who died on 14 September 1743.
      His brilliant depictions of fêtes galantes, or scenes of courtly amusements taking place in Arcadian settings, reflected the society of his time.
      — He was, with Pater, the principal imitator of Watteau. After failing as a history painter he was influenced by Gillot's theatrical scenes as Watteau had been, and he spent the rest of his life painting fêtes galantes.
      — Lancret came from a family of Parisian artisans. After an apprenticeship with the history painter Pierre Dulin, and a term at the Royal Academy's school, he entered Claude Gillot's studio in 1712. Gillot, then director of scene designs and costumes for the Opera, probably introduced him to Jean-Antoine Watteau, with whom he developed a close stylistic affinity. In 1719 he was elected to membership in the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture as a painter of fêtes galantes, a category created two years earlier for Watteau. Lancret participated in the Exposition de la Jeunesse from 1722 to 1725, and exhibited regularly at the official Salons from 1737. He received a number of royal commissions (e.g., decorations for the Chateau de la Muette, the Louvre, and Versailles) and enjoyed the patronage of many prominent amateurs, including Frederick II of Prussia. Lancret gradually evolved an individual style, more decorative but less poetic and symbolic than Watteau's. Although he produced portraits and history paintings, his work is devoted primarily to aristocratic genre scenes- outdoor gatherings with themes of the dance, music, the hunt, and elegant repasts. Lancret's charming works are a perfect reflection of the spirit and customs of eighteenth-century French society.
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— Breakfast Before the Hunt (1740) — The Music Party (1740) — End of the Hunt (1740) — Baigneuses (1740) — Le Moulinet
Mauldin
Died on a 22 January:
2003 William Henry “Bill” Mauldin [photo >], of pneumonia while suffering from Alzheimer's disease. Born on 29 October 1921, he was the US cartoonist who created the WW II characters Willie and Joe, grimy, irrepressible infantrymen who triumphed over the German army and their own rear-echelon officers. Then he went on for more than 50 years to caricature bigots, superpatriots, doctrinaire liberals and conservatives, and pompous people of all kinds. He won the Pulitzer prize in for his war caricatures and again in 1958 for his Pasternak picture I won the Nobel Prize for Literature. What was your crime? — MORE
1942 Walter Richard Sickert, British Post-Impressionist painter born on 31 May 1860.— Novelist tries to prove that Sickert was sicker than thought: that he was Jack the Ripper, the 1888 murderer of 5 prostitutes.. — LINKS
1919 Carl Olof Larsson, Swedish painter born on 28 May 1853. — LINKS
1905 Robert Brough, Scottish painter born on 20 March 1872. — Fantaisie en Folie (1897, 102x126cm)
1900 William Louis Sonntag, US Hudson River School painter specialized in Landscapes, born on 02 March 1822. — LINKS
1737 Jean-Baptiste Vanmour, Flemish artist born on 09 January 1671.
1649 Alessandro Turchi “L'Orbetto” (Veronese), Italian painter born in 1578. — LINKS

Born on a 22 January:
1891 Moïse Kisling, French artist who died on 29 April 1953.
1889 Willi Baumeister, German abstract artist who died on 31 August 1955. — LINKS — Aru With Dots (1955) — Motif (1937) — Figures On Gray (1954) — Spiral On Yellow (1952) — Composition (1946) — Magic Stone — Amenophis (1950, 60x69cm) — Standing Figure with Blue Plane
1879 Francis Martínez de Picabia, French Dadaist-Surrealist painter who died on on 30 November 1953. (The titles of his paintings have no recognizable relation to their content) — LINKS — Portrait de Cézanne - Portrait de Rembrandt - Portrait de Renoir - Nature Morte (1920, momie d'un singe?) — I See Again in Memory My Dear Udnie (1913, an abstraction that doesn't resemble anything) — Ici C'est Ici Stieglitz (1915) — Amorous Parade (1917, une espèce d'alembic biscornu?) — La Fille Née Sans Mère (1917, portion d'une machine à vapeur?)
1863 Joseph Bail, French artist who died on 26 November 1921.
1856 Walter Gay, US artist who died in 1937.
1849 August John Strindberg, Swedish artist who died on 14 May 1912.
1849 Christian Rohlfs, German painter who died in 1938. — LINKS
1822 Karoly Marko II, Hungarian artist who died in 1891.
1762 Jean-Baptiste Joseph Wicar (or Vicart), French Neoclassical painter who died on 27 February 1834. — LINKS

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