Giovanni Boldini

Giovanni Boldini was an Italian genre and portrait painter who lived and worked in Paris for most of his career. According to a 1933 article in Time magazine, he was known as the "Master of Swish" because of his flowing style of painting.

31 December 1842

Born on the same birth day (31 December): Alex Salmond • Barry Hughes • Ben Hannant • Brent Barry • Carsten Schlangen • Henri Matisse • Henry I, Duke of Guise • John Frost (British Army officer) • John Radcliffe (died 1568) • Liveris Andritsos • Margaret Simpson • Phill Kline • Simon Forman • Steve Bruce

Born in the same month (December 1842): Adolf Bötticher • Calixa Lavallée • Charles Alfred Pillsbury • Ellen Swallow Richards • Osman Hamdi Bey • Peter Kropotkin • Phoebe Hearst • Sophus Lie