1874 in art
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Events
- April 15 - First ImpressionistImpressionismImpressionism was a 19th-century art movement that originated with a group of Paris-based artists whose independent exhibitions brought them to prominence during the 1870s and 1880s...
exhibition opens in a private studio (belonging to NadarNadar (photographer)Félix Nadar was the pseudonym of Gaspard-Félix Tournachon , a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist. Some photographs by Nadar are marked "P. Nadar" for "Photographie Nadar" .-Life: born in April 1820 in Paris...
) outside the official Paris SalonParis SalonThe Salon , or rarely Paris Salon , beginning in 1725 was the official art exhibition of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France. Between 1748–1890 it was the greatest annual or biannual art event in the Western world...
; Louis LeroyLouis LeroyLouis Leroy was a French 19th century engraver, painter, and successful playwright. However, he is remembered as the journalist and art critic for the French satirical newspaper Le Charivari, who coined the term "impressionists" to satirise the artists now known by the word.Leroy's review was...
in the French satirical newspaper Le Charivari coins the term "impressionism". - Berthe MorisotBerthe MorisotBerthe Morisot was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.In 1864, she exhibited for the first...
marries Eugene, brother of Édouard ManetÉdouard ManetÉdouard Manet was a French painter. One of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism....
. - Helen PatersonHelen Allingham__NOEDITSECTION__Helen Allingham was an English watercolour painter and illustrator of the Victorian era.-Biography:...
marries William AllinghamWilliam AllinghamWilliam Allingham was an Irish man of letters and a poet.-Biography:He was born in Ballyshannon, County Donegal, Ireland and was the son of the manager of a local bank who was of English descent...
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Works
- Louis BuvelotLouis BuvelotLouis Buvelot , born Abram-Louis Buvelot, was a Swiss-born landscape painter who emigrated to Australia in 1865 and influenced the Heidelberg School of painters.-Early life:...
- Macedon Ranges - 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...
- The Dancing Lesson - Emmanuel FrémietEmmanuel FrémietEmmanuel Frémiet was a French sculptor. He is famous for his sculpture of Joan of Arc in Paris and the monument to Ferdinand de Lesseps in Suez....
- Joan of Arc (formerly in the Place des Pyramides, Paris) - Henri Fantin-LatourHenri Fantin-LatourHenri Fantin-Latour was a French painter and lithographer best known for his flower paintings and group portraits of Parisian artists and writers.-Biography:...
- Still Life with Pansies (Metropolitan Museum of ArtMetropolitan Museum of ArtThe Metropolitan Museum of Art is a renowned art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided into nineteen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the...
, New YorkNew York CityNew York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
) - Armand GuillauminArmand GuillauminArmand Guillaumin , was a French impressionist painter and lithographer.Born Jean-Baptiste Armand Guillaumin in Paris, he worked at his uncle's lingerie shop while attending evening drawing lessons. He also worked for a French government railway before studying at the Académie Suisse in 1861...
- La Seine (Metropolitan Museum of Art) - Winslow HomerWinslow HomerWinslow Homer was an American landscape painter and printmaker, best known for his marine subjects. He is considered one of the foremost painters in 19th century America and a preeminent figure in American art....
- Farmer with a Pitch Fork - Vilhelm KyhnVilhelm KyhnPeter Vilhelm Carl Kyhn, was a Danish landscape painter who belonged to the generation of national romantic painters immediately after the Danish Golden Age and before the Modern Breakthrough...
- Sildig Sommeraften ved Himmelbjærget ("Late Summer Evening near Himmelbjerget") - Édouard ManetÉdouard ManetÉdouard Manet was a French painter. One of the first 19th-century artists to approach modern-life subjects, he was a pivotal figure in the transition from Realism to Impressionism....
- Boating (Metropolitan Museum of Art) - Claude MonetClaude MonetClaude Monet was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting. . Retrieved 6 January 2007...
- The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil - Berthe MorisotBerthe MorisotBerthe Morisot was a painter and a member of the circle of painters in Paris who became known as the Impressionists. She was described by Gustave Geffroy in 1894 as one of "les trois grandes dames" of Impressionism alongside Marie Bracquemond and Mary Cassatt.In 1864, she exhibited for the first...
- The Butterfly Hunt - John PettieJohn PettieJohn Pettie RA was a Scottish painter. He was born in Edinburgh, the son of Alexander and Alison Pettie. In 1852 the family moved to East Linton, Haddingtonshire...
- Jacobites - Camille PissarroCamille PissarroCamille Pissarro was a French Impressionist and Neo-Impressionist painter born on the island of St Thomas . His importance resides in his contributions to both Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, as he was the only artist to exhibit in both forms...
- Portrait of Cézanne - Dante Gabriel RossettiDante Gabriel RossettiDante Gabriel Rossetti was an English poet, illustrator, painter and translator. He founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848 with William Holman Hunt and John Everett Millais, and was later to be the main inspiration for a second generation of artists and writers influenced by the movement,...
- Proserpine (Tate BritainTate BritainTate Britain is an art gallery situated on Millbank in London, and part of the Tate gallery network in Britain, with Tate Modern, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. It is the oldest gallery in the network, opening in 1897. It houses a substantial collection of the works of J. M. W. Turner.-History:It...
) - Alfred SisleyAlfred SisleyAlfred Sisley was an Impressionist landscape painter who was born and spent most of his life, in France, but retained British citizenship. He was the most consistent of the Impressionists in his dedication to painting landscape en plein air...
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Births
- March 23 - Henri ManguinHenri ManguinHenri Charles Manguin[p] was a French painter, associated with Les Fauves.Manguin entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts to study under Gustave Moreau, as did Matisse and Charles Camoin with whom he became close friends...
, painter (d. 19491949 in art-Events:*Formation of Penwith Society of Arts in St Ives, Cornwall.*Foundation of COBRA -Works:*Brenda Chamberlain - The Fisherman's Return...
) - April 7 - Frederick Carl FriesekeFrederick Carl FriesekeFrederick Carl Frieseke was an American Impressionist painter who spent most of his life as an expatriate in France. An influential member of the Giverny art colony, his paintings often concentrated on various effects of dappled sunlight...
, painter (d. 19391939 in art-Events:*First of the Madeline books, illustrated by Ludwig Bemelmans.*Release of Detective Comics #27, the debut of Batman.*Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth settle near St Ives, Cornwall, effectively establishing the St Ives School of abstract avant-garde artists.*Exhibition "Contemporary...
) - May 11 - Einar JónssonEinar JónssonEinar Jónsson was an Icelandic sculptor, born in Galtafell, a farm in southern Iceland.-Biography:...
, sculptor (d. 19541954 in art-Awards:*Archibald Prize: Ivor Hele - Rt Hon R G Menzies, PC, CH, QC, MP-Works:*Francis Bacon - Figure with Meat *John Brack - The bar *Franz Kline - Painting No 2 The Museum of Modern Art...
) - July 28 - Joaquín Torres García, Uruguayan painter (d. 19491949 in art-Events:*Formation of Penwith Society of Arts in St Ives, Cornwall.*Foundation of COBRA -Works:*Brenda Chamberlain - The Fisherman's Return...
) - October 16 - Otto MuellerOtto MuellerOtto Mueller or Müller was a German painter and printmaker of the Die Brücke expressionist movement.-Life and work:...
, painter (d. 19301930 in art-Events:*Malvina Hoffman begins sculpting life-size figures for the Field Museum's Hall of Man.*Great Bardfield Artists community established in England.-Works:*Pierre Bonnard - Pots*Patrick Henry Bruce - Peinture...
) - date unknown - Arnold FriedmanArnold FriedmanArnold Friedman was an American Modernist painter.He was born in Corona, Queens, worked for the Federal Art Project and studied at the Art Students League of New York under the tutelage of Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller. In 1909, he took a six-month leave of absence from his job to study...
, Modernist painter (d. 19461946 in art-Events:*The Vienna School of Fantastic Realism is founded by Ernst Fuchs, Rudolf Hausner, and others.-Works:*George Ault - Bright Light at Russell's Corners*Francis Bacon**Painting ...
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Deaths
- April 19 - Owen JonesOwen Jones (architect)Owen Jones was a London-born architect and designer of Welsh descent. He was a versatile architect and designer, and one of the most influential design theorists of the nineteenth century...
, architect, interior designer, and pioneer of chromolithographyChromolithographyChromolithography is a method for making multi-color prints. This type of color printing stemmed from the process of lithography, and it includes all types of lithography that are printed in color. When chromolithography is used to reproduce photographs, the term photochrom is frequently used...
(b. 18091809 in art-Works:*John Constable – Malvern Hall*Caspar David Friedrich – Mönch am Meer*Jacques-Louis David – Sappho and Phaon*Henry Raeburn – Mrs Spiers-Births:...
) - April 20 - Alexander Hunter MurrayAlexander Hunter MurrayAlexander Hunter Murray was a Hudson's Bay Company fur trader and artist.In 1847, he established the trading post at Fort Yukon at the juncture of the Yukon and Porcupine rivers in the land of the Gwichʼin people...
, fur trader and artist (b. 1818/18191818 in art-Events:*Sir Thomas Lawrence goes to Aachen to paint those present at the third congress.-Works:*Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog-Births:*January 26 – Amédée de Noé, caricaturist and lithographer...
) - May 5 - Marc-Charles-Gabriel GleyreMarc-Charles-Gabriel GleyreCharles Gleyre , was a Swiss artist. He took over the studio of Paul Delaroche in 1843 and taught a number of younger artists who became prominent, including Claude Monet, Pierre Auguste Renoir, Alfred Sisley and James Abbott McNeill Whistler.His father and mother died when he was eight or nine...
, 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:...
) - November 21 - Mariano FortunyMariano Fortuny (painter)Marià Fortuny i Marsal , known more simply as Marià Fortuny or Mariano Fortuny, was a Catalan painter...
, painter (b. 18381838 in art-Events:*August 31 - David Roberts sets sail for Egypt, with the encouragement of J. M. W. Turner, to produce a series of drawings for use as the basis for the paintings and lithographs.-Works:...
) - December 6 - Egide Charles Gustave WappersEgide Charles Gustave WappersEgide Charles Gustave, Baron Wappers is best known as the Belgian painter Gustave Wappers, while his oeuvre is also reckoned Flemish...
, painter (b. 18031803 in art-Awards:The Prix de Rome is expanded in 1803 to include musical composition as a category.* Grand Prix de Rome, painting:* Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:* Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:* Grand Prix de Rome, music: Albert Androt.-Births:...
) - October 28 - William Henry RinehartWilliam Henry RinehartWilliam Henry Rinehart was a noted American sculptor. He is considered "the last important American sculptor to work in the classical style."-Biography:...
, sculptor (b. 18251825 in art-Births:*February 4 – Myles Birket Foster, illustrator and watercolour painter *March 13 – Hans Gude, painter *May 1 – Eleanor Vere Boyle, watercolorist *May 9 – James Collinson, Pre-Raphaelite painter...
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