Events from the year 1880 in art.
Events 3 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1880 opens at Burlington House in Londonhttps://chronicle250.com/1880#catalogue October – Vincent van Gogh enrolls in a beginners art course at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Fifth Impressionist exhibition in Paris, at 10 rue des Pyramides. The realist painter Jean-François Raffaëlli is also invited by Degas to exhibit. Silver Studio founded by Arthur Silver in London for textile and wallpaper design. Anton Mauve paints Changing Pasture; his palette and usage of colour influences Vincent van Gogh. Michael Ancher marries fellow painter Anna Brøndum. National Gallery of Canada established in Ottawa.
Awards Grand Prix de Rome, painting: Henri Lucien Doucet. Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture: Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Grand Prix de Rome, music: Lucien Joseph Edouard Hillemacher.
Works
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi – The Lion of Belfort Marie Bashkirtseff – Self-portrait Arnold Böcklin – Isle of the Dead (, first two versions) Marie Bracquemond – On the terrace at Sèvres John Brett – Britannia's Realmhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/britannias-realm-197997 Thomas Brock – A Moment of Peril (equestrian bronze) Lady Butler – The Defence of Rorke's Drift Alexandre Cabanel – Phèdre Gustave Caillebotte A Balcony Boulevard des Italiens Boulevard Seen from Above The Bezique Game In a Café Interior Interior, Woman reading A refuge, boulevard Haussmann Man on the balcony, boulevard Haussmann Man with a top-hat, seated by a window Nude on a divan Paul Cézanne – View of Auvers-sur-Oise Carl Conrads – Statue of Alexander Hamilton (granite, Central Park, New York) Pierre Auguste Cot – The Storm Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville – The Defence of Rorke's Drift, 1879 Edgar Degas – Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery (etching) Thomas Eakins – The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand Giovanni Fattori – Quadrato di Villafranca William Powell Frith – Tenby Fisherwomanhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/tenby-fisherwoman-181589 Charles Gauthier – Cléopâtre (plaster) James Clarke Hook – Home with the Tide Daniel Huntington – Portrait of John Adams Dix Ivan Kramskoi Sergey Botkin Ivan Shishkin Edward Lear – The Plains of Lombardy from Monte Generoso (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) Édouard Manet Émilie Ambre as Carmen A Bundle of Asparagus A Sprig of Asparagus Albert Joseph Moore – Rose Leaves Adolph Alphonse de Neuville – The Defence of Rorke's Drift Frank O'Meara – Autumnal greys (Forest of Fontainbleau) William Quiller Orchardson – Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon Edward Poynter – A Visit to Aesculapius Pierre-Auguste Renoir Portrait of Irène Cahen d'Anvers By the Water Annie Robinson – Susan Isabel Dacre Dante Gabriel Rossetti – The Day Dream Fritz Schaper – Goethe Monument (Berlin) Viktor Vasnetsov – Flying Carpet Henry Tanworth Wells – Victoria Regina
Births February 1 – C. T. Loo, Chinese-born art dealer (died 1957) February 3 – Frances Darlington, English relief sculpture (died 1940) February 8 – Franz Marc, German painter and printmaker, co-founder of Der Blaue Reiter (killed in action 1916) March 2 – Joseph Ehrismann, German-born painter and stained-glass maker (died 1937) March 21 – Hans Hofmann, German-born abstract expressionist painter and teacher (died 1966) April 4 – William Russell Flint, Scottish-born watercolourist (died 1969) April 7 – Alexander Bogomazov, Ukrainian painter, artist and modern art theoretician of Russian avant-garde (died 1930) May 6 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German expressionist painter, co-founder of Die Brücke (suicide 1938) June 10 – André Derain, French Fauvist painter (died 1954) August 2 Arthur Dove, American painter (died 1946) Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire, French sculptor (born 1798) August 22 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (died 1944) November 19 – Jacob Epstein, American-born British sculptor (died 1959)
Deaths January 4 – Anselm Feuerbach, German classicist painter (born 1829) February 19 – Constantino Brumidi, American historicist fresco painter (born 1805) September 8 – Wilhelm August Rieder, Austrian painter and draughtsman (born 1796) October 10 – Giampietro Campana, Italian art collector (born 1808) November 20 – Léon Cogniet, French historical and portrait painter (born 1794) December 21 – Henry O'Neill, Irish illustrator and antiquarian (born 1798) date unknown – Nicolae Teodorescu, Moldavian, later Romanian church painter (muralist) (born 1797)
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