1834 in art
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Works
Paintings
- Edward HicksEdward HicksEdward Hicks was an American folk painter, a distinguished minister of the Society of Friends, and he also became a Quaker icon because of his paintings.-Early life:...
– Peaceable Kingdom - Jean Auguste Dominique IngresJean Auguste Dominique IngresJean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres was a French Neoclassical painter. Although he considered himself to be a painter of history in the tradition of Nicolas Poussin and Jacques-Louis David, by the end of his life it was Ingres's portraits, both painted and drawn, that were recognized as his greatest...
– Martyrdom of Saint Symphorian, (Autun Cathedral)
Sculptures
- Antoine-Augustin PréaultAntoine-Augustin PréaultAntoine-Augustin Préault was a French sculptor of the Romanticism movement. Born in the Marais district of Paris, his name is often recorded as Auguste Préault by which he was known during his lifetime....
– The Killing (Musée des Beaux-Arts, ChartresChartresChartres is a commune and capital of the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France. It is located southwest of Paris.-Geography:Chartres is built on the left bank of the Eure River, on a hill crowned by its famous cathedral, the spires of which are a landmark in the surrounding country...
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Births
- February 15 – Paul GuigouPaul GuigouPaul Camille Guigou was a French landscape painter.Guigou was born in Villars, Vaucluse in a wealthy family of farmers and notaries. He studied painting in Apt and later with Émile Loubon in Marseille...
, painter (d. 18711871 in art-Paintings:*The Narrows, Lake George by Daniel Huntington*The Old Stagecoach by Eastman Johnson*The Harbour at Bordeaux by Édouard Manet *The Barricade by Édouard Manet...
) - July 14 – James McNeill WhistlerJames McNeill WhistlerJames Abbott McNeill Whistler was an American-born, British-based artist. Averse to sentimentality and moral allusion in painting, he was a leading proponent of the credo "art for art's sake". His famous signature for his paintings was in the shape of a stylized butterfly possessing a long stinger...
, painter (d. 19031903 in art-Events:*Isadora Duncan develops free dance, a dance technique influenced by the ancient Greeks and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.*With the support of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jacques Villon, Auguste Rodin and others, the first Salon d'Automne opens in Paris as a reaction to the conservatism...
) - July 19 – Edgar DegasEdgar DegasEdgar Degas[p] , born Hilaire-Germain-Edgar De Gas, was a French artist famous for his work in painting, sculpture, printmaking and drawing. He is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism although he rejected the term, and preferred to be called a realist...
, painter and sculptor (d. 19171917 in art-Events:*January - A drunken Amedeo Modigliani is ejected from a party for Georges Braque, by the hostess, Marie Vassilieff.*January 29 - Rodin marries his mistress, Rose Beuret; she dies two weeks later.*Eric Kennington, William Orpen, C. R. W...
) - August 2 – Frédéric BartholdiFrédéric BartholdiFrédéric Auguste Bartholdi was a French sculptor who is best known for designing the Statue of Liberty.-Life and career:...
, sculptor of the Statue of LibertyStatue of LibertyThe Statue of Liberty is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, designed by Frédéric Bartholdi and dedicated on October 28, 1886...
(d. 19041904 in art-Events:*Georges Braque leaves the Academie Humbert.*Mary Cassatt is awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government for her services to the arts.-Works:-Paintings:*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Finding of Moses*Frederick McCubbin - The pioneer...
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- Caspar BuberlCaspar BuberlCaspar Buberl was an American sculptor. He is best known for his Civil War monuments, for the terra cotta relief panels on the Garfield Memorial in Cleveland, Ohio , and for the -long frieze on the Pension Building in Washington, D.C..-Biography:Born in Königsberg, Bohemia, Caspar Buberl (1834 –...
, sculptor (d. 18991899 in art-Works:*Pierre Bonnard - Little Girl with a Cat*Jules Dalou - Monument à Alphand*Paul Gauguin - Two Women*William Harnett - Violin*Peder Severin Krøyer - Summer evening by Skagen's beach. Artist and his wife...
) - Emily Mary OsbornEmily Mary OsbornEmily Mary Osborn , or Osborne, was an English painter of the Victorian era.She was born in Essex, the eldest of nine children of a clergyman. She was educated at Dickinson's Academy in London. In 1851, at the age of seventeen, Osborn began showing her work in the annual Royal Academy exhibits, and...
, painter (d. 19131913 in art-Events:* February 17 - The Armory Show opens in New York City. It displays works of artists who are to become some of the most influential painters of the early 20th century* The London Group formed and holds its first exhibition...
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- Caspar Buberl
Deaths
- February 26 – Alois SenefelderAlois SenefelderJohann Alois Senefelder was a German actor and playwright who invented the printing technique of lithography in 1796.-Actor, playwright:...
, inventor of lithography (b. 17711771 in art-Works:* John Singleton Copley – Ezekiel Goldthwait and Mrs. Ezekiel Goldthwait , Museum of Fine Arts, Boston-Births:*March 16 – Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter...
) - March 30 – Rudolph AckermannRudolph AckermannRudolph Ackermann was an Anglo-German bookseller, inventor, lithographer, publisher and businessman.- Biography :...
, printer and lithographer (b. 17641764 in art-Births:*April 14 – Firmin Didot, French printer, engraver, and type founder *April 20 – Rudolph Ackermann, printer and lithographer *May 11 – Grigory Ugryumov, Russian painter *May 20 – Johann Gottfried Schadow, sculptor...
) - March 31 – Landolin OhmachtLandolin OhmachtLandolin Ohmacht was a German sculptor.Ohmacht was born in Dunningen. Among other things, he created busts of Susette Gontard and Erwin von Steinbach and a monument to Jean-Frédéric Oberlin in the Saint Thomas Church . He died in Strasbourg....
, German sculptor (b. 17601760 in art-Births:*January 10 – Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, French neoclassical painter *January 20 – Ferdinand Bauer, Austrian botanical illustrator *March 2 – Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish artist, poet, and baroness...
) - April 27 – Thomas StothardThomas StothardThomas Stothard was an English painter, illustrator and engraver.-Life and work:Stothard was born in London, the son of a well-to-do innkeeper in Long Acre, London. A delicate child, he was sent at the age of five to a relative in Yorkshire, and attended school at Acomb, and afterwards at...
, EnglishEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
painter and engraver (b. 17551755 in art-Events:* Canaletto returns from England to Venice, where he continues painting until his death in 1768.-Paintings:* Jean-Honoré Fragonard – Musical Contest-Births:*April 16 – Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, French painter...
) - August – Peter Rindisbacher, painter (b. 18061806 in art-Events:*The Elgin Marbles are brought to Britain from Greece by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin.-Works:* Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres:*Napoleon on his Imperial Throne*Madame Rivière-Births:...
) - December 22 – Prince Hoare, EnglishEnglandEngland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
painter and dramatist (b. 17551755 in art-Events:* Canaletto returns from England to Venice, where he continues painting until his death in 1768.-Paintings:* Jean-Honoré Fragonard – Musical Contest-Births:*April 16 – Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun, French painter...
) - date unknown – Ulrika MelinUlrika MelinUlrika Melin was a Swedish textile artist, and a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.Born to major Lars Melin and sister to general major Henrik Georg Melin, and from 1788 married to the governor of Västerås Castle, Peter Thure Gerhard Drufva. Melin was a textile artist with the an unusual...
, textile artist and member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Art (b. 17671767 in art-Paintings:* Jean-Honoré Fragonard – The Swing* Canaletto spends his last full year painting, in Venice.-Births:* Jacques-Laurent Agasse – animal and landscape painter...
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