Great news: in England it is #NationalTeaDay Meaning it's time for Pieter van Roestraten, a Dutch painter working in England. And, by a wonderful coincidence, he was born on this day in 1630.

2/2 Boy with capitalist goose again. Was hilarious in the Dutch Golden Age, when Jacob Cuyp kept painting it.

Two jaguars (one, I'm sure, just napping!), painted in 1639 by Jacob Gerritsz. Cuyp of Dordrecht, whose day is today.

Looking right at you: a goat (possibly demonic). With a kid (non-demonic). By today's artist, Jacob Cuyp of Dordrecht. Portrait specialist & father of Aelbert Cuyp.

cheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeese

Blessed are the cheesemakers 🧀

A young woman with a fantastic outfit. Also the column behind her is v. intriguing! Painted in 1567 by Steven van der Meulen, whose day is today.

#PIcturingPregnancy

2/2 Enter the butterfly. Action! Three peaches on a stone ledge, with painted lady butterfly, 1694. By Adriaen Coorte, whose day is today.

fun fact: Ethel Haythornthwaite has a blue plaque in the student village just up the road from me. sheffield.ac.uk/news/universit…

EARLY MODERN HAT TROUBLE

(there is a bit in my phd thesis somewhere about men knocking each other's brains out because somebody disrespected their hat)

Ruskin Spear (British, 1911-1990). Cat in a cardboard box (oil on board).

Thank you!

Yes, it was in a reply to someone I don't follow so I didn't see it, but it's *still* my bad for not checking the rest of the thread before leaping in!

Oops my bad! I missed that one.

You've omitted to mention the joy of regnal years...

Reprise for #NationalSiblingsDay!

A cute figurine of a bear made from amber. It looks like a gummy bear

A figurine of a hippo with a hole in his back and a loop of gold going through the hole. The figurine is made of a transparent glassy material. Rock crystal, perhaps. It looks not unlike a Foxe's glacier mint.

A carved bust of a bearded man in a brown material, against a red background. If you told us it was carved from chocolate, we wouldn't argue.

A figurine of a hippo in a green material (nephrite, apparently, whatever that is). It looks like it could be a wine gum, but one of the green ones that no one really likes.

Today we will be mainly posting pictures of artefacts that look like sweets. 🍬🍫

A very stocky Exmoor Horn ram.

Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

FT Correction: Researcher Brené Brown was misquoted in an interview published on April 6. She described herself as “solidly in my fuck it era” rather than “solidly in my fucking era”.

Within you there are two eras. www.ft.com/content/5269...

Jacques Hnizdovsky, The Cat, 1968, woodcut on paper

I didn't know that but it hardly comes as a surprise.

Shurely not the same Sir James Dyson who moved his factories to Malaysia? That Sir James Dyson is complaining that *politicians* make us rely on imports?

Rabbits in the Garden, by Rosa Bonheur.
#HappyEaster!

A small wooden netsuke in the shape of a rabbit. It is brown in colour with green eyes.

🐰 Happy Easter to everyone celebrating!

This little rabbit netsuke is only 2.5 centimetres high. A netsuke is an ornamental toggle or counterweight used to attach small containers to the sash worn with the traditional Japanese kimono.

The Manchester Passion 2006 YouTube video by Eddie Pearson

Today is the 20th anniversary of the Manchester Passion, a live BBC production in Albert Square of the last hours of Jesus. The Passion told through Mancunian pop songs.

"Love Will Tear Us Apart” was sung at the Last Supper, beginning at 9:50.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAfL...

Maruska the cat, at the window, very interested in something down there, and drawn by Leonid Pasternak whose day is today.

The Passion of Jesus in Trafalgar Square 2026 Watch 100 Wintershall players bring their moving portrayal of the final days of Jesus to life in Trafalgar Square.

Not sure there are any b-list celebs, but here you go in London www.london.gov.uk/events/passion…

Spectacled Caiman and a False Coral Snake by artist-naturalist Maria Sibylla Merian, born on this day in 1647.