1838 in art
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- August 31 - David RobertsDavid Roberts (painter)David Roberts RA was a Scottish painter. He is especially known for a prolific series of detailed lithograph prints of Egypt and the Near East that he produced during the 1840s from sketches he made during long tours of the region . These, and his large oil paintings of similar subjects, made him...
sets sail for Egypt, with the encouragement of J. M. W. TurnerJ. M. W. TurnerJoseph Mallord William Turner RA was an English Romantic landscape painter, watercolourist and printmaker. Turner was considered a controversial figure in his day, but is now regarded as the artist who elevated landscape painting to an eminence rivalling history painting...
, to produce a series of drawings for use as the basis for the paintings and lithographs.
Works
- Asher B. Durand - Dance on the Battery in the Presence of Peter Stuyvesant
Births
- June 11 - Mariano FortunyMariano Fortuny (painter)Marià Fortuny i Marsal , known more simply as Marià Fortuny or Mariano Fortuny, was a Catalan painter...
, painter (d. 18741874 in art-Events:*April 15 - First Impressionist exhibition opens in a private studio outside the official Paris Salon; Louis Leroy in the French satirical newspaper Le Charivari coins the term "impressionism"....
) - September 18 – Anton MauveAnton MauveAnthonij Rudolf Mauve was a Dutch realist painter who was a leading member of the Hague School. He signed his paintings 'A. Mauve' or with a monogrammed 'A.M.'. He was a very significant early influence on his cousin-in-law Vincent van Gogh.Most of Mauve's work depicts people and animals in...
, painter (d. 18881888 in art-Events:*July 14 - The Monument à Léon Gambetta, by Jean-Paul Aubé, is inaugurated at the Louvre*Paul Ranson, Paul Sérusier and Maurice Denis become fellow students at the Académie Julian*Vincent Van Gogh begins his Sunflowers series-Exhibitions:...
) - November 18 – William KeithWilliam Keith (artist)William Keith was a Scottish-American painter famous for his California landscapes.-Early life:Keith was born in Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and emigrated to the United States in 1850. He lived in New York City, and became an apprentice wood engraver in 1856...
, painter (d. 19111911 in art-Events:*February 2 – First issue of Franz Pfemfert's Die Aktion*May 11 – A Futurist exhibition in Milan is the first of efforts by the group to make its theories concrete*August 21 – Mona Lisa stolen from the Musée du Louvre...
) - December 31 – Jules DalouJules DalouAimé-Jules Dalou was a French sculptor, recognized as one of the most brilliant virtuosos of nineteenth-century France, admired for his perceptiveness, execution, and unpretentious realism.-Life:...
, sculptor (d. 19021902 in art-Events:*Georges Braque begins his studies at the Academie Humbert, where he meets Marie Laurencin and Francis Picabia.-Works:*Helen Allingham - View of Blackdown*Frank Weston Benson - Eleanor Holding a Shell...
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Deaths
- May 10 - José AparicioJose AparicioJosé Aparicio was a Spanish painter of the Neoclassic period.Born in Alicante and died in Madrid. His early training in Valencia and Madrid, then in Paris with Jacques-Louis David. He was named by Ferdinand VII as painter of the Royal chamber. He became director of the Royal Academy of San Fernando...
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painter of the NeoclassicNeoclassicismNeoclassicism is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome...
period (b. 17731773 in art-Events:*Francisco Goya marries Josefa Bayeu.*Ulrika Pasch elected in to the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts-Births:*December 9 – Marianne Ehrenström, Swedish writer, singer, painter, pianist, culture personality, and memorialist *date unknown...
) - September 5 – Charles PercierCharles PercierCharles Percier was a neoclassical French architect, interior decorator and designer, who worked in a close partnership with Pierre François Léonard Fontaine, originally his friend from student days...
, architect and designer (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...
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- John O'KeeffeJohn O'Keeffe (Irish painter)John O'Keeffe was an Irish portrait and figure painter.Born in Fermoy, Co. Cork of humble parentage, O'Keeffe began painting at an early age and was apprenticed to a coach painter. He began painting scenes for local theatres, working his way up to religious pictures for local Roman Catholic churches...
, IrishIrish peopleThe Irish people are an ethnic group who originate in Ireland, an island in northwestern Europe. Ireland has been populated for around 9,000 years , with the Irish people's earliest ancestors recorded having legends of being descended from groups such as the Nemedians, Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha...
portrait and figure painter (b. 17971797 in art-Births:*June 16 – Sophie Fremiet, French painter *July 17 – Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter *August 8 – Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury, French painter *September 19 – January Suchodolski, Polish painter and Army officer...
) - Josef GrassiJosef GrassiJosef Grassi , also known as Giuseppe Grassi or Joseph Maria Grassi, was an Austrian painter and teacher.Grassi was born in Vienna. He was a member of the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts and specialized in portraits. He painted primarily Austrian aristocracy. -References:...
, AustriaAustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n painter especially of portraits (b. 17571757 in art-Births:*March 21 – James Sowerby, naturalist and illustrator *July 24 – Vladimir Borovikovsky, Ukrainian-born painter especially of Russian portraiture *November 1 – Antonio Canova, sculptor...
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- John O'Keeffe