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- Michael Peter AncherMichael Peter AncherMichael Peter Ancher was a Danish impressionist artist. He is most associated with his paintings of fishermen and other scenes from the Danish port of Skagen. His paintings are classics and he is probably one of Denmark's most popular artists.-Background:Michael Peter Ancher was born at Rutsker on...
- Vil han klare pynten (Will he round the point) - Albert Fitch BellowsAlbert Fitch BellowsAlbert Fitch Bellows , American landscape painter of the Hudson River School, was born at Milford, Massachusetts.-Early years:...
- The Parsonage - William-Adolphe BouguereauWilliam-Adolphe BouguereauWilliam-Adolphe Bouguereau was a French academic painter. William Bouguereau was a traditionalist; in his realistic genre paintings he used mythological themes, making modern interpretations of Classical subjects, with an emphasis on the female human body.-Life and career :William-Adolphe...
- The Birth of VenusThe Birth of Venus (Bouguereau)The Birth of Venus is one of the most famous paintings by 19th century painter William-Adolphe Bouguereau. It depicts not the actual birth of Venus from the sea, but the transportation of Venus in a shell from the sea to Paphos in Cyprus. For Bouguereau, it was truly a tour de force... - 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...
- Miss La La at the Cirque FernandoMiss La La at the Cirque FernandoMiss La La at the Cirque Fernando is a painting by Edgar Degas, the French Impressionist artist, now in the collection of the National Gallery in London, England. It shows the acrobat Miss La La hanging on a rope by her teeth at the Cirque Fernando in Montmartre, Paris.The painting was bought by... - Edouard 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....
- Self-Portrait with PaletteSelf-Portrait with Palette (Manet)Self-Portrait with Palette is an 1878–79 painting by the French artist Édouard Manet. This late, impressionistic work is one of his two self-portraits... - Vasily PerovVasily PerovVasily Grigorevich Perov ; 2 January 1834 – 10 June 1882) was a Russian painter and one of the founding members of Peredvizhniki, a group of Russian realist painters....
- Pugachev's Judgement - John Singer SargentJohn Singer SargentJohn Singer Sargent was an American artist, considered the "leading portrait painter of his generation" for his evocations of Edwardian era luxury. During his career, he created roughly 900 oil paintings and more than 2,000 watercolors, as well as countless sketches and charcoal drawings...
- Portrait of Carolus-DuranCarolus-DuranCharles Auguste Émile Durand, known as Carolus-Duran , was a French painter and art instructor. He is noted for his stylish depictions of members of high society in Third Republic France.-Biography:... - Pierre Auguste Renoir - The Dreamer
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- January 13 - William Reid DickWilliam Reid DickSir William Reid, Dick was a Scottish sculptor known for his innovative stylization of form in his monument sculptures and simplicity in his portraits. He became an Associate of the Royal Academy in 1921, and a Royal Academician in 1928. Dick served as president of the Royal Society of British...
, ScottishScottish peopleThe Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...
sculptor (d. 19611961 in art-Events:* August 21 - Goya's Portrait of the Duke of Wellington is stolen from the National Gallery in London three weeks after first going on display there.-Works:*Jane Frank - Crags and Crevices*David Hockney - We Two Boys Together Clinging...
) - March 27 - Edward SteichenEdward SteichenEdward J. Steichen was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator. He was the most frequently featured photographer in Alfred Stieglitz' groundbreaking magazine Camera Work during its run from 1903 to 1917. Steichen also contributed the logo design and a custom typeface...
, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
photographerPhotographyPhotography is the art, science and practice of creating durable images by recording light or other electromagnetic radiation, either electronically by means of an image sensor or chemically by means of a light-sensitive material such as photographic film...
, 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...
, and art galleryArt galleryAn art gallery or art museum is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection...
and museumMuseumA museum is an institution that cares for a collection of artifacts and other objects of scientific, artistic, cultural, or historical importance and makes them available for public viewing through exhibits that may be permanent or temporary. Most large museums are located in major cities...
curator (d.19731973 in art-Events:*Alexander Calder is hired by Braniff International Airways to paint a full-size DC-8-62 as a "flying canvas."-Exhibitions:*Christopher Williams - centenary exhibition in Cardiff, Maesteg and Swansea.-Works:...
) - September 23 - Charles CamoinCharles CamoinCharles Camoin[p] was a French painter associated with the Fauves.Born in Marseille, France, Camoin met Henri Matisse in Gustave Moreau's class at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris...
, painter (d.19651965 in art-Events:*Sculptor Barbara Hepworth is created a Dame.*December - Max's Kansas City - opens-Works:*Yaacov Agam - Double Metamorphosis II*Lucian Freud - Reflection with Two Children *L. S...
) - December 18 - Paul KleePaul KleePaul Klee was born in Münchenbuchsee, Switzerland, and is considered both a German and a Swiss painter. His highly individual style was influenced by movements in art that included expressionism, cubism, and surrealism. He was, as well, a student of orientalism...
, painter (d.19401940 in art-Events:*Xawery Dunikowski is deported to the concentration camp at Auschwitz, where he survives until 1945.*October - Grandma Moses' first solo exhibition, "What a Farm Wife Painted", opens at Otto Kallir's Galerie Saint-Etienne in New York City.-Paintings:...
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- January 26 - Julia Margaret CameronJulia Margaret CameronJulia Margaret Cameron was a British photographer. She became known for her portraits of celebrities of the time, and for photographs with Arthurian and other legendary themes....
, photographer (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...
) - February 10 - Honoré DaumierHonoré DaumierHonoré Daumier was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century....
, painter, sculptor and caricaturist (b. 18081808 in art-Events:* May 2 and May 3, In Spain the guerrilla resistance movement against the French forces of Napoleon Bonaparte begins; immortalized in 1814 by Francisco Goya's Third of May 1808....
) - March 27 - Hércules FlorenceHércules FlorenceAntoine Hercule Romuald Florence was a French-Brazilian painter and inventor, known as the isolate inventor of photography in Brazil, three years before Daguerre , using the matrix negative/positive, still in use...
, painter and pioneer photographer (b. 18171817 in art-Works:*François Joseph Bosio – Hyacinth Awaiting His Turn*John Constable – Flatford Mill-Births:*January 29 – John Callcott Horsley, painter *February 15 – Charles-François Daubigny, painter...
) - March 30 - Thomas CoutureThomas CoutureThomas Couture was an influential French history painter and teacher. Couture taught such later luminaries of the art world as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, Karel Javůrek, and J-N Sylvestre.-Life:He was born at Senlis, Oise, France...
, painter and art teacher (b. 1815) - July 7 - George Caleb BinghamGeorge Caleb BinghamGeorge Caleb Bingham was an American artist whose paintings of American life in the frontier lands along the Missouri River exemplify the Luminist style. Left to languish in obscurity, Bingham's work was rediscovered in the 1930s...
, American realist artist (b. 18111811 in art-Works:*Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – Jupiter and Thetis*Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Benjamin West*Bertel Thorvaldsen – Procession of Alexander the Great-Births:*March 20 – George Caleb Bingham American realist artist...
) - July 17 - Maurycy GottliebMaurycy GottliebMaurycy Gottlieb was a Jewish painter, of Polish-speaking Galician Jews from the western part of Ukraine. He was born in Drohobych , Galicia, modern Lviv region, western Ukraine....
, painter (b. 18041804 in art-Events:*Sculptor Pompeo Marchesi wins a scholarship to study in Rome under Antonio Canova.-Awards:The Prix de Rome had been expanded in 1803 to include musical composition as a category, but was not awarded in 1804.* Grand Prix de Rome, painting:...
) - August 3 - Joseph SevernJoseph SevernJoseph Severn was an English portrait and subject painter and a personal friend of the famous English poet John Keats...
, English portrait and subject painter (b. 17931793 in art-Works:* Jacques-Louis David – The Death of Marat.* François Marie Suzanne, a French sculptor, created a terra cotta figure of Benjamin Franklin .-Births:*January 15 – Ferdinand Georg Waldmüller, Austrian painter and writer...
) - September 5 - Camille DoncieuxCamille DoncieuxCamille Doncieux was the first wife of French painter Claude Monet.She modeled for her husband on several occasions, including for the painting Camille, "The Woman in the Green Dress". In addtion to being Monet's favoured model, she also modelled for Pierre-August Renoir and Édouard Manet.Camille...
, first wife and model of 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...
(b. 18471847 in art-Events:*William Dyce is commissioned to decorate the Queen's Robing Room at the newly-completed Palace of Westminster.-Works:*Thomas Cole – Indian Pass Tawahus*Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Cock Fight...
) - September 6 - Amédée de NoéAmédée de NoéCharles Amédée de Noé, known as Cham was a French caricaturist and lithographer. Raised by a family who wished him to attend a polytechnic school, he instead attended painting workshops by Nicolas Charlet and Paul Delaroche and began work as a cartoonist, taking on the pseudonym "Cham"...
, caricaturist (b. 18181818 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...
) - September 8 - William Morris HuntWilliam Morris HuntWilliam Morris Hunt , American painter, was born at Brattleboro, Vermont to Jane Maria Hunt and Hon. Jonathan Hunt, who raised one of the preeminent families in American art...
, painter (b. 18241824 in art-Events:*April 2 – The British government buys John Julius Angerstein's art collection for £60,000 for the purpose of establishing a National Gallery in London....
) - November 2 - Abbondio SangiorgioAbbondio SangiorgioAbbondio Sangiorgio was an Italian sculptor.Born in Milan, Sangiorgio studied at the city’s Accademia di Brera...
, ItalianItalyItaly , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
sculptor (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...
) - November 18 - André GirouxAndré Giroux (painter)André Giroux was a renowned French photographer and painter. His paintings were mostly Landscape art and Genre painting, one of which hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In particular, he restored several Genre paintings of medieval ruins and troubadours...
, painter and photographer (b. 18011801 in art-Works:*Philip James de Loutherbourg – Coalbrookdale by Night*Marie-Denise Villers – Young Woman Drawing-Births:*January 26 – John Quidor, painter *February 1 – Thomas Cole, painter...
) - December 1 - Franz IttenbachFranz IttenbachFranz Ittenbach was a German religious painter from Königswinter, North Rhine-Westphalia, at the foot of the Drachenfels....
, religious painter (b. 18131813 in art-Works:*Johann Christian Reinhart - Blick auf Tivoli*J. M. W. Turner – Frosty Morning-Births:*March 27 – Nathaniel Currier, illustrator *April 18 – Franz Ittenbach, religious painter...
) - date unknown - Henry CollenHenry CollenHenry Collen was a miniature portrait painter to Queen Victoria and the Duchess of Kent. Later in life he turned to photography and was on the cutting edge in photography in mid-19th century in London...
, English royal miniature portrait painterPortraitthumb|250px|right|Portrait of [[Thomas Jefferson]] by [[Rembrandt Peale]], 1805. [[New-York Historical Society]].A portrait is a painting, photograph, sculpture, or other artistic representation of a person, in which the face and its expression is predominant. The intent is to display the likeness,...
(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...
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