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#WilliamBeechey (1753–1839)
Portrait of #DorotheaJordan (née Bland) (1761-1816), who was #BornOnThisDay, as Rosalind in Shakespeare's ‘As You Like It’
Late 18th century
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November 22, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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Portrait of #AmeliaoftheUnitedKingdom (1783-1810), who was #BornOnThisDay
1797
Royal Collection
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August 7, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Kitty (Hart) Packe by William Beechey (British) - Oil on canvas / 1820 - Oklahoma City (Oklahoma) Museum of Art #womeninart #portrait #art #williambeechey #artwork #okcmoa #britishart #portraitofawoman #okcmuseumofart #bsky.art #artoftheday #aotd #europeanart #bskyart #fineart
Kitty Packe is seated in a neoclassical setting with a lavish indoor setting and lush landscape through an open air patio. She holds an open book in her hand wile wearing an elegant cream colored gown with gold accents and layers of sheer lace. She was the only daughter of Thomas Hart and married Charles William Packe, member of Parliament, three years later in 1823. The book she is holding deals with domestic skills and a cultured upbringing.
December 27, 2024 at 3:40 AM
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September 23, 2026 at 10:53 AM
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Portrait of #MaryoftheUnitedKingdom (1776-1857), Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1795-7
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#Hanover
April 25, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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Portrait of #VictoriaofSaxeCoburgSaalfeld (1786-1861), Duchess of Kent, who was #BornOnThisDay, with her daughter #QueenVictoria
1821
Royal Collection
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August 17, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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Look down, not up. That crossed pair of red rackets on the ground - abandoned, forgotten mid-game - says more about childhood than the boy's frozen pose ever could. Portrait of Kennett Dixon Playing Shuttlecock, William Beechey, c. 1788-1792.

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A young child, Kennett Dixon, dressed in an 18th-century black velvet suit with a white ruffled collar and an oversized black hat topped with dark feathers, stands on a stone step in a wooded park landscape. He gazes upward with one arm raised, watching a shuttlecock fly overhead against a cloudy blue sky. In his other hand he holds a red-framed hand mirror. Below him, near the base of the stone step, a pair of red battledore rackets lie crossed and discarded on the ground, along with a small blue-handled i
September 26, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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#WilliamBeechey (1753-1839)
Portrait of Princess #AugustaSophiaoftheUnitedKingdom (1768-1840), who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1797-1802
Royal Collection
#Hanover
November 8, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Portrait of #SophiaMatildaofGloucester (1773-1844), who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1803-5
Royal Collection
#Hanover
May 29, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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#WilliamBeechey (1753-1839)
Portrait of Princess #AugustaSophiaoftheUnitedKingdom (1768-1840), who was #BornOnThisDay
1795-97
Royal Collection
#Hanover
November 8, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Portrait of #AugustaofHesseKassel (1797-1889), Duchess of Cambridge, who was #BornOnThisDay
1818
Royal Collection
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July 25, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Portrait of Princess #AugustaSophiaoftheUnitedKingdom (1768-1840), who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1819-40
Royal Collection
#Hanover
November 8, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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Portrait of #ElizabethoftheUnitedKingdom (1770-1840), Landgravine of Hesse-Homburg, who was #BornOnThisDay
1797
Royal Collection
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May 22, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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Portrait of #CharlotteofMecklenburgStrelitz (1744-1818), Queen of United Kingdom & Ireland, who was #BornOnThisDay
1796
Royal Collection
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May 19, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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#WilliamBeechey (1753-1839)
Portrait of #AdelaideofSaxeMeiningen (1792-1849), Queen of the United Kingdom, who was #BornOnThisDay
ca. 1831
National Portrait Gallery
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August 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM