Vue du canal Saint-Martin, 1870, by Alfred Sisley, British landscape artist, died #OTD 1899; a founding figure of French Impressionism, he painted en plein air with Monet & Renoir. Musée d’Orsay

Delighted to have the opportunity to talk about C19th philanthropy in the Red Heaven history podcast - www.redheavenproject.com/episodes/vic... See www.redheavenproject.com for all 81 episodes

Well this looks very interesting!

An Artist Visits Stonehenge in 1573 and Paints a Charming Watercolor Painting of the Ancient Ruins

Fascinating obit for Julia Margaret Cameron expert www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I'm talking online about Lord Overstone's philanthropy to international causes (famine, conflict and extreme weather events) in the late C19th

John Singer Sargent was born #OnThisDay in 1856 🎈 He worked on one of his most famous works for a few minutes each evening when the light was right. He started it in 1885 and continued in summer 1886. 'Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose' by John Singer Sargent (1856–1925) 📷 Tate

British-US printmaker Clare Leighton, #Snow Shovellers, #NewYork, 1929 #WomensArt

Christmas jigsaw completed! Blimey that was tricky because of the mirror imaging…

UK based stained glass artist Harriet Love #Womensart.

The Boxing Day jigsaw has commenced 🎄

Merry Christmas from all of us at Buckinghamshire Archives! We hope your day is full of joy, laughter, and several mysterious birds appearing in your Christmas tree, no doubt eager to learn more about local history.

It’s a time for sharing, so in a spirit of goodwill to all cinephiles, a dozen directors, including Guillermo del Toro, Wes Anderson, Alice Rohrwacher, Luna Carmoon and Steven Soderbergh, choose their favourite Christmas films

Mary Delany, Ilex Aquifolium - Holly with berries, 1775, British Museum #merrymerry

Christmas Eve by Stanhope Forbes was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1897. This large painting (1.8m high) shows a band playing outside the Dock Inn in Dock Street, at the foot of Chapel Street in Penzance, with the parish church of St Mary's in the background.

#OTD Christmas Eve 1867 Lord Overstone donated £20 to the Clerkenwell Explosion Fund - following an explosion on 13 December 1867 to aid a prisoner escape from Clerkenwell Prison which killed 12 and wounded 120 in neighbouring houses en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerken...

Not now, haunted Victorian shoes

David Klöcker Ehrenstrahl, Reindeer with sleigh (ackja), 1671, Oil on canvas, 224 x 348 cm (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm) #earlymodern #snow 🗃️

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 22 Durham Cathedral Artist: SRBadmin

A Dickens Christmas ”God bless us, everyone!” A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, published #OTD 1843. British Library

Merry Christmas everyone and thank you. #JoyeuxNoel The Nativity, painted by the Limbourg brothers 1412-16 Tempera on vellum Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, Musée Condé Château de Chantilly

In 1892, Charles Green contributed 28 fresh illustrations to a reprinting of Dickens's A Christmas Carol. To kick off my Christmas Carol illustration advent this year, here's his half-page title. (1/7)

The First Photographs of Snowflakes: Discover the Groundbreaking Microphotography of Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley (1885)

Better Homes and Gardens, December 1958 #DIY

Father Christmas Tree - 17th century, Nürnberger Schembart-Buch, Cod. ms. KB 395, p. 255

Town centre Artist: Frank Hampson (Stories of our Christmas Customs, 1964)

Christmas Tree New Yorker cover December 1942

The British Library have a searchable interim Archives & Manuscripts Catalogues up & running: searcharchives.bl.uk (posting for all the folks who, like me, had somehow managed to miss this important development)

Art Herstory Botanical Holly Holiday Cards - Art by Mary Vaux Walcott, Box of 10 Interior text: Season's Greetings etsy.me/48Y6c4b via Etsy

Great to see a big review of @wmmjenkins.bsky.social’s new edited book on the Famine in Canada in the Irish Times this morning, by Breandan Mac Suibhne 🙂 How Canada coped with an influx of destitute and diseased Irish people during the Famine www.irishtimes.com/culture/book...

Queen St. West, Study No. 2 - 1980 Artist: Arto Yuzbasiyan (1948- ) Medium: Oil painting Baldwin Collection of Canadiana, Toronto Public Library #1980s #oilpainting #queenwest #winter #city #streetcar #torontoart #streetscene #art #toronto #canada

I was today years old when I learned that James Edward Austen-Leigh, Jane Austen's nephew & memoirist, was a practitioner of cut-paper silhouettes! (Attn: @catrionamac.bsky.social !) Here's one Austen-Leigh created as an illustration for his aunt's Sense and Sensibility. This is Barton Cottage:

The king of biscuits - the M&S chocolate biscuit!

Carl Larsson (Swedish, 1853 – 1919) "Christmas Morning", 1894 Watercolor on paper Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

A French charity is testing an unusual fund-raising approach in the fine art world: Raffling off a Picasso painting worth more than 1 million euros to one winner. Each of the raffle tickets is on sale for 100 euros, and proceeds will go toward research into Alzheimer’s disease. trib.al/Xi9XqjE

Andrey Pilipenko (Russian Artist, born 1967) "Two Loneliness Just Met", 2020. Oil on Canvas Painting. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

"She seemed to walk in an atmosphere of things about to happen." ~ Lucy Maud Montgomery Decorating the Christmas Tree 🎨 Marcel Rieder (1898)

Lynn Chadwick, Moon in Alabama (colour variant), 1963 https://botfrens.com/collections/14375/contents/1118707

York Castle: In accordance with a bequest made many years ago by some charitably disposed person, the debtors - in the Castle on Christmas Day were regaled with roast beef and plum pudding. The prison chapel bad been very tastefully decorated for the season, and there were 1/5

I saw a rolling library ladder in real life yesterday 🪜 A majestic sight to behold 😍 #Bath

This is the Christmas card I sent this year - available from @royalacademy.bsky.social

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Produced by the Gas Council in the 1950s the leaflet "Christmas in the Happy Home" was, as you would imagine for the date, aimed at what is frequently termed the "housewife" Not one mention of anyone else, sharing in the work. No wonder it refers to a lot of extra work.

This is such a sad story! An important collection that had been sent for digitisation (though why from Kent to Scotland, I'm not sure) 📜 www.bbc.com/news/article...

Morris & Co

We're sharing a festive artwork each day until Christmas for our art advent 🎄 Here's day two 🌵🌟 'Christmas Cacti' by Winifred Nicholson (1893–1981) © Trustees of Winifred Nicholson. 📷 Peter Scott Gallery

Holly and Mistletoe 1929 Louis Valtat French #art

Irish artist Mildred Anne Butler, Shades of Evening, 1904 #womensart #November

The Internet Archive just released tens of thousands of seed catalogs, spanning over two centuries! They are both lovely and interesting. Check them out! archive.org/details/usda... 🗃️ #c18th #c19th #c20th #illustration

The now Grade II listed headstone of railway fireman Edward Booth is a reminder of the tragic Ulleskelf accident which occurred OTD 24 November in 1906 when in fog, the train on which he was working missed a red signal and crashed into a coal train killing himself and the driver.