Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840)

Caspar David Friedrich (5 September 1774 – 7 May 1840) was a German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation.[1]

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Images

Works

Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840), Cairn in Snow, 1807, oil on canvas, h 61 x w 80 cm, Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caspar_David_Friedrich

Constance Mayer (1775-1821)

Constance Mayer

Marie-Françoise Constance Mayer La Martinière (9 March 1775 – 26 May 1821) was a French painter of portraits, allegorical subjects, miniatures and genre works. She had "a brilliant but bitter career."[1]

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Quotes·Quotations by Constance Mayer

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Images

 

 

Self-Portrait. Oil on canvas. Bibliothèque Marmottan

 

 

 

Works by Constance Mayer

 

 

The Sleep of Venus and Cupid, 1806, oil on canvas, 97 x 145 cm, The Wallace Collection, London

 

 

 

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Mayer

William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

Born	7 April 1770 Wordsworth House, Cockermouth, England
Died	23 April 1850 (aged 80) Cumberland, England
Occupation	Poet
Alma mater	Cambridge University
Literary movement	Romanticism
Notable work(s)	Lyrical Ballads, Poems in Two Volumes, The Excursion

William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with the 1798 joint publication Lyrical Ballads.

Wordsworth's magnum opus is generally considered to be The Prelude, a semiautobiographical poem of his early years which he revised and expanded a number of times. It was posthumously titled and published, prior to which it was generally known as the poem "to Coleridge". Wordsworth was Britain's Poet Laureate from 1843 until his death in 1850.

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Quotes

Nature never did betray the heart that loved her.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wordsworth

Henry Clay (1777-1852)

Henry Clay (1777-1852)

Henry Clay, Sr. (April 12, 1777 – June 29, 1852), was a lawyer, politician and skilled orator who represented Kentucky separately in both the Senate and in the House of Representatives. He served three different terms as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and was also Secretary of State from 1825 to 1829.

Clay was a dominant figure in both the First and Second Party systems. As a leading war hawk, he favored war with Britain and played a significant role in leading the nation to war in 1812. Later he was involved in the "Corrupt Bargain" of 1824, after which he was appointed Secretary of State by newly elected President John Quincy Adams. He was the foremost proponent of the American System, fighting for an increase in tariffs to foster industry in the United States, the use of federal funding to build and maintain infrastructure, and a strong national bank. He opposed the annexation of Texas, fearing it would inject the slavery issue into politics. Clay also opposed the Mexican-American War and the "Manifest Destiny" policy of Democrats, which cost him votes in the close 1844 election.

Dubbed the "Great Compromiser," Clay brokered important compromises during the Nullification Crisis and on the slavery issue. As part of the "Great Triumvirate" or "Immortal Trio," along with his colleagues Daniel Webster and John C. Calhoun, he was instrumental in formulating the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850. He was viewed as the primary representative of Western interests in this group, and was given the names "Henry of the West" and "The Western Star." A plantation owner, Clay held slaves during his lifetime but freed them in his Will.

Abraham Lincoln, the Whig leader in Illinois, was a great admirer of Clay, saying he was "my ideal of a great man." Lincoln wholeheartedly supported Clay's economic programs. In 1957, a Senate Committee selected Clay as one of the five greatest U.S. Senators, along with Daniel Webster, John C. Calhoun, Robert La Follette, and Robert Taft.

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Quotes·Quotation

Advice

¶ Prepare! The time will come when winter will ask what you were doing all summer.

Politics·Government

¶ Sir, I would rather be right than be President.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Clay