1882 in art
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- Walter LangleyWalter LangleyWalter Langley was an English painter and founder of the Newlyn School of plein air artists. He was born in Birmingham and his father was a journeyman tailor. At 15 he was apprenticed to a lithographer. At 21 he won a scholarship to South Kensington and he studied designing there for two years...
moves to NewlynNewlynNewlyn is a town and fishing port in southwest Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.Newlyn forms a conurbation with the neighbouring town of Penzance and is part of Penzance civil parish...
, CornwallCornwallCornwall is a unitary authority and ceremonial county of England, within the United Kingdom. It is bordered to the north and west by the Celtic Sea, to the south by the English Channel, and to the east by the county of Devon, over the River Tamar. Cornwall has a population of , and covers an area of...
, becoming the first resident artist of the Newlyn SchoolNewlyn SchoolThe Newlyn School is a term used to describe an art colony of artists based in or near to Newlyn, a fishing village adjacent to Penzance, Cornwall, from the 1880s until the early 20th century. The establishment of the Newlyn School was reminiscent of the Barbizon School in France, where artists...
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Works
- John Atkinson GrimshawJohn Atkinson GrimshawJohn Atkinson Grimshaw was a Victorian-era artist, a "remarkable and imaginative painter" known for his city night-scenes and landscapes....
- Under the Moonbeams - Edward Burne-JonesEdward Burne-JonesSir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, 1st Baronet was a British artist and designer closely associated with the later phase of the Pre-Raphaelite movement, who worked closely with William Morris on a wide range of decorative arts as a founding partner in Morris, Marshall, Faulkner, and Company...
and William MorrisWilliam MorrisWilliam Morris 24 March 18343 October 1896 was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement...
- David's Charge to Solomon (stained-glass window, Trinity Church, Boston, Massachusetts) - Wilhelm LeiblWilhelm LeiblWilhelm Maria Hubertus Leibl was a German realist painter of portraits and scenes of peasant life.Leibl was born in Cologne and in 1861 began his first training with Hermann Becker, a local painter. He entered the Munich Academy in 1864, subsequently studying with several artists including Carl...
- Three Women in Church (KunsthalleKunsthalleKunsthalle is, generally, in German speaking regions a term for a facility mounting temporary art exhibitions. Some are run or supported by a local Kunstverein, an art association of local collectors and artists...
, HamburgHamburg-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
) - William Merritt ChaseWilliam Merritt ChaseWilliam Merritt Chase was an American painter known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. He is also responsible for establishing the Chase School, which later would become Parsons The New School for Design.- Early life and training :He was born in Williamsburg , Indiana, to the family...
- Azaleas and In the Studio - Paul CézannePaul CézannePaul Cézanne was a French artist and Post-Impressionist painter whose work laid the foundations of the transition from the 19th century conception of artistic endeavour to a new and radically different world of art in the 20th century. Cézanne can be said to form the bridge between late 19th...
- "Still Life With Compotier"
Births
- January 6 - Aleksandra EksterAleksandra EksterAleksandra Aleksandrovna Ekster was a Russian-French painter and designer.-Biography:-Childhood:...
, Russian-UkrainianUkraineUkraine is a country in Eastern Europe. It has an area of 603,628 km², making it the second largest contiguous country on the European continent, after Russia...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
(Cubo-FuturistCubo-FuturismCubo-Futurism was the main school of painting and sculpture practiced by the Russian Futurists.When Aristarkh Lentulov returned from Paris in 1913 and exhibited his works in Moscow, the Russian Futurist painters adopted the forms of Cubism and combined them with the Italian Futurists'...
, Suprematist, ConstructivistConstructivism (art)Constructivism was an artistic and architectural philosophy that originated in Russia beginning in 1919, which was a rejection of the idea of autonomous art. The movement was in favour of art as a practice for social purposes. Constructivism had a great effect on modern art movements of the 20th...
) and designerDesignerA designer is a person who designs. More formally, a designer is an agent that "specifies the structural properties of a design object". In practice, anyone who creates tangible or intangible objects, such as consumer products, processes, laws, games and graphics, is referred to as a...
(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 16 - André Edouard MartyAndré Edouard MartyAndré Edouard Marty or A.E. Marty was a Parisian artist who worked mainly in the classic Art Deco style.-Career:A.E. Marty studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and Atelier Fernand Cormon in Montmartre, Paris...
, French artist (d.19741974 in art-Births:* 31 May - Adrian Tomine, American cartoonist.* 16 June - Paul Lee, English artist.* 1 September - Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist, cartoonist and writer.* 8 November - Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga artist....
). - May 13 - Georges BraqueGeorges BraqueGeorges Braque[p] was a major 20th century French painter and sculptor who, along with Pablo Picasso, developed the art style known as Cubism.-Early Life:...
, French painter and sculptorSculptureSculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials—typically stone such as marble—or metal, glass, or wood. Softer materials can also be used, such as clay, textiles, plastics, polymers and softer metals...
(d. 19631963 in art-Exhibitions:*Visione e Colore, Palazzo Grassi, Venice*Morris Louis memorial exhibition, Guggenheim Museum, New York City-Works:*Georg Baselitz - Die große Nacht im Eimer *Romare Bearden - Prevalence of Ritual...
) - June 21 - Rockwell KentRockwell KentRockwell Kent was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, and writer.- Biography :Rockwell Kent was born in Tarrytown, New York, the same year as fellow American artists George Bellows and Edward Hopper...
, American painter, printmaker, illustrator and writer (d. 19711971 in art-Works:*Hans Haacke - Real Time Social System*David Hockney - Mr and Mrs Clark and Percy*Fritz Koenig - Great Spherical Caryatid , designed for the World Trade Center, now in Battery Park, NYC...
) - July 22 - Edward HopperEdward HopperEdward Hopper was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching...
, American painter and printmaker (d.19671967 in art-Events:*May 14 - Dedication of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral in England, designed by Frederick Gibberd, with stained glass by John Piper, Patrick Reyntiens and Margaret Traherne and a bronze crucifix is by Elisabeth Frink....
). - August 14 - Gisela RichterGisela RichterGisela Marie Augusta Richter , was a classical archaeologist and art historian.Gisela Richter was born in London, England; the daughter of Jean Paul and Louise Richter. Both of her parents and her sister, Irma, were historians of Italian Renaissance art...
, English archaeologist and art historian (d.19721972 in art-Events:* 16 September - Opening of A.I.R. Gallery at 97 Wooster Street, SoHo, the first artist-run, not-for-profit gallery for women artists in the United States.* Costantino Nivola becomes the first non-American member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters....
). - August - George BellowsGeorge BellowsGeorge Wesley Bellows was an American realist painter, known for his bold depictions of urban life in New York City, becoming, according to the Columbus Museum of Art, "the most acclaimed American artist of his generation".-Youth:Bellows was born and raised in Columbus, Ohio...
, American painter (d.19251925 in art-Events:*Josef Albers marries Anni Fleischmann.*In Paris, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry sponsors the Exposition Internationale des Arts Décoratifs et Industriels Modernes from April through October; the event gives a name to the Art Deco style...
). - October 3 - A. Y. JacksonA. Y. JacksonAlexander Young Jackson, was a Canadian painter and a founding member of the Group of Seven.- Early life and training :...
, Canadian painter (d.19741974 in art-Births:* 31 May - Adrian Tomine, American cartoonist.* 16 June - Paul Lee, English artist.* 1 September - Jhonen Vasquez, American comic book artist, cartoonist and writer.* 8 November - Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga artist....
) - November 18 - Wyndham LewisWyndham LewisPercy Wyndham Lewis was an English painter and author . He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art, and edited the literary magazine of the Vorticists, BLAST...
, painter and writer (d. 19571957 in art-Events:*Chicago's Lithuanian community opens the Čiurlionis Art Gallery.*John Lennon enrols at Liverpool College of Art.-Works:*Maurice Boitel - The Hens*Paul-Émile Borduas - Étoile noire*Arthur Boyd - Dreaming Bridegroom 1...
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- January 14 - Timothy H. O'SullivanTimothy H. O'SullivanTimothy H. O'Sullivan was a photographer widely known for his work related to the American Civil War and the Western United States.O'Sullivan was born in New York City. As a teenager, he was employed by Mathew Brady...
, photographer of the American Civil War (b. 18401840 in art-Works:*Francis Danby – The Deluge*Eugène Delacroix – Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople *Edwin Landseer – Laying Down The Law, or Trial by Jury...
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- John LinnellJohn Linnell (painter)John Linnell was an English landscape painter. Linnell was a naturalist and a rival to John Constable. He had a taste for Northern European art of the Renaissance, particularly Albrecht Dürer. He also associated with William Blake, to whom he introduced Samuel Palmer and others of the...
, British landscape painter (b. 17921792 in art-Events:*François-André Vincent becomes a professor at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris.-Births:*February 24 – István Ferenczy, Hungarian sculptor *June 16 – John Linnell, English landscape painter...
) - William Miller - Quaker line engraver from EdinburghEdinburghEdinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
, ScotlandScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
(b. 17961796 in art-Births:* February 3 – Jean Baptiste Madou, painter and lithographer *May 28 – William Miller, Scottish Quaker line engraver * July 2 – Michael Thonet, furniture designer * July 17 – Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot, French painter...
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- John Linnell
- March 30 - Henri LehmannHenri LehmannHenri Lehmann was a German-born French historical painter and portraitist.__NOEDITSECTION__-Life:Born Heinrich Salem Lehmann in Kiel, Schleswig, Germany, he received his first art tuition from his father Leo Lehmann and from other painters in Hamburg...
, painter (b. 18141814 in art-Works:* Francisco Goya – The executions of the Third of May 1808.* Jacques-Louis David – Leonidas at Thermopylae-Births:*March 3 – Louis Buvelot, Swiss-Australian painter *March 22 – Thomas Crawford, sculptor...
) - April 10 - 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,...
, Pre-Raphaelite painter (b. 18281828 in art-Births:*May 10 – James McDougal Hart, painter *May 11 – Alfred Stevens, painter *May 12 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite painter *June 13 – Elie Delaunay, painter...
) - June 3 - Christian WilbergChristian WilbergChristian Wilberg was a German painter.Wilberg was born in 1839 in Havelberg in the Margraviate of Brandenburg where he lived until 1861. He was originally a house painter before moving to Berlin where he studied painting at Eduard Pape's atelier...
, painter (b. 18391839 in art-Works:*Sir Edwin Landseer – Dignity and Impudence*Carl Spitzweg – The Poor Poet*J. M. W. Turner – The Fighting Temeraire-Births:*January 19 – Paul Cézanne, French painter *March 16 – John Butler Yeats, Irish painter...
) - June 20 - Auguste François BiardAuguste Francois BiardAuguste François Biard was a French genre painter.Born at Lyon, he traveled around the world, sketching on the way. He was particularly successful in rendering burlesque groups....
, genre painter (b. 17991799 in art-Works:*Jacques-Louis David – The Intervention of the Sabine Women*Anne-Louis Girodet – Mademoiselle Lange en Danaé*Francisco Goya – Los Caprichos*J. M. W. Turner – Norham Castle-Births:*January 7 – Eduard Magnus, German painter...
) - July 8 - Hablot Knight BrowneHablot Knight BrowneHablot Knight Browne was an English artist, famous as Phiz, illustrator of books by Charles Dickens, Charles Lever and Harrison Ainsworth.-Biography:...
, illustrator ("Phiz") (b. 18151815 in art-Works:*Antonio Canova – The Three Graces*Francisco Goya – Tauromaquia*J. M. W. Turner – Crossing the Brook-Births:*February 18 – Baron Leys, painter *June 11 – Julia Margaret Cameron, photographer...
) - August 29 - Johann HalbigJohann HalbigJohann Halbig, was a German sculptor of Classicism. He was born at Donnersdorf in Lower Franconia and was educated at the Polytechnical School and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich...
, sculptor (b. 18141814 in art-Works:* Francisco Goya – The executions of the Third of May 1808.* Jacques-Louis David – Leonidas at Thermopylae-Births:*March 3 – Louis Buvelot, Swiss-Australian painter *March 22 – Thomas Crawford, sculptor...
) - September 23 - John Wharlton BunneyJohn Wharlton BunneyJohn Wharlton Bunney was an English topographical and landscape artist of the nineteenth century.His father was a merchant captain whom Bunney, as a boy, accompanied on several voyages around the world. Bunney demonstrated a strong talent for drawing and draftsmanship from an early age...
, painter (b. 18281828 in art-Births:*May 10 – James McDougal Hart, painter *May 11 – Alfred Stevens, painter *May 12 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Pre-Raphaelite painter *June 13 – Elie Delaunay, painter...
) - October 25 - Emma StebbinsEmma StebbinsEmma Stebbins was among the first notable American woman sculptors.- Career :Born and raised in a wealthy New York family, Stebbins was encouraged by her family in her pursuit of art from an early age. In 1857, sponsored by her brother Col. Henry G...
, sculptor (b. 18151815 in art-Works:*Antonio Canova – The Three Graces*Francisco Goya – Tauromaquia*J. M. W. Turner – Crossing the Brook-Births:*February 18 – Baron Leys, painter *June 11 – Julia Margaret Cameron, photographer...
) - November 7 - Julius HübnerJulius HübnerRudolf Julius Benno Hübner was a German historical painter of the Düsseldorf school. He was also known as a poet and the father of Emil Hübner, a distinguished classical scholar.- Life :...
, genre 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:...
) - date unknown - James EightsJames EightsJames Eights was an American physician, scientist, and artist. He was born in Albany, New York, the son of physician Jonathan Eights and Alida Wynkoop...
, scientist and watercolour painter (b. 17981798 in art-Works:*William Beechey – George III and the Prince of Wales reviewing troops*François Gérard – Cupid and Psyche*Antoine-Jean Gros – Le pont d'Arcole-Births:*February 17 – Josef Navrátil, Bohemian painter of paintings, murals, and frescos...
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