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Tate Modern extension Switch House, London, England. (Tavatnik, museums). Photo dated 2017.
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"The Birth of Venus," tempera on canvas by Sandro Botticelli, c. 1485; in the Uffizi, Florence.
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Baptized December 11, 1609 • London • England
Died 1660 • Stockholm • Sweden
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Samuel Cooper's miniature portrait of Robert Blake; in the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, Eng.
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Hans Holbein the Younger: The Ambassadors
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Jean Clouet
French painter
Hendrik Goltzius: Hercules Killing Cacus
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Dutch painter and printmaker
Portrait of Marguerite de Valois, chalk drawing by François Clouet, c. 1559; in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France. 30.1 × 21.1 cm.
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French painter
Abdülcelil Levnî
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Malbone, Edward Greene
Edward Greene Malbone
American painter
Dumont, François: Mademoiselle de Montbrizon
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French painter
Joseph Severn
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William Blake
William Blake
British writer and artist
The Painter and His Pug, self-portrait by William Hogarth, oil on canvas, 1745; in the Tate Gallery, London.
William Hogarth
English artist
J.M.W. Turner: The Fighting Temeraire Tugged to Her Last Berth to Be Broken Up, 1838
J.M.W. Turner
English painter
Thomas Gainsborough
English painter
Self-portrait by John Constable
John Constable
British artist
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, photograph by Lewis Carroll, 1863
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
English artist
Joshua Reynolds: self-portrait
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