February 10, 1840~ Queen Victoria weds Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg & Gotha

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The Marriage of Queen Victoria by Sir George Hayter

1840-42 / Oil on canvas / 77”x107 5/8” / Royal Collection Trust, UK

Queen Victoria in her wedding veil by Franz Xaver Winterhalter

1847 / Oil on canvas | 21”x17” / Royal Collection Trust, UK
Commissioned by Queen Victoria and given to Prince Albert as a present on their wedding anniversary, 1847

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February 10~ African-American visual artists

Leontyne Price: born on February 10, 1927

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February 8, 1828~ Author Jules Verne is born

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Illustration by N.C. Wyeth for Jules Verne’s book “The Mysterious Island”
Originally published 1874; N.C. Wyeth version first published 1918

1918 / Oil on canvas / 38 5/8”x28 3/16” / Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA

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February 8~ First Opera in North America

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February 7, 1813~ Fight of the Aréthuse and the Amelia

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HMS Amelia and the French Frigate Arethuse in Action, 1813
by John Christian Schetky

1852 / Oil on canvas / 23 9/10”x35 9/10” / Norfolk Museums Collections, UK

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February 7~ African-American visual artists

February 7, 1904: The Great Baltimore Fire Begins

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February 4, 960~ The coronation of Zhao Kuangyin as Emperor Taizu of Song

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Seated Portrait of Song Taizu / Anonymous, Song dynasty (960-1279)

No date / Hanging scroll, ink and colors on silk / 75 1/5”x66 1/2” / National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

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February 4~ African-American visual artists

Louis-Ernest Barrias (April 13, 1841-February 4, 1905)

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February 2~ Groundhog Day

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Illustration by Arthur Rackham of woodchuck* family
for Margery Williams Bianco’s book “Poor Cecco”

Originally published 1925 / Illustrations: photomechanical color process /
175 pages / George H. Doran Company, New York

* Groundhogs are also variously referred to as woodchucks, whistle-pigs, or land-beavers

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February 2~ African-American visual artists

Loren MacIver: Born February 2, 1909

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