1886 in art
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Events
- April - New English Art ClubNew English Art ClubThe New English Art Club was founded in London in 1885 as an alternate venue to the Royal Academy.-History:Young English artists returning from studying art in Paris mounted the first exhibition of the New English Art Club in April 1886...
mounts its first exhibition, at the Egyptian HallEgyptian HallFor the Glasgow building see The Egyptian Halls.The Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly, London, was an Exhibition hall built in the ancient Egyptian style in 1812, to the designs of Peter Frederick Robinson.-History:...
, LondonLondonLondon is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, providing an alternative to the Royal AcademyRoyal AcademyThe Royal Academy of Arts is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly, London. The Royal Academy of Arts has a unique position in being an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects whose purpose is to promote the creation, enjoyment and...
for younger artists, such as Philip Wilson SteerPhilip Wilson SteerPhilip Wilson Steer OM was a British painter of landscape and occasional portraits and figure studies. He was a leading figure in the Impressionist movement in Britain.-Life and work:...
, under the influence of ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. - 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...
founds Parsons The New School for DesignParsons The New School for DesignParsons The New School For Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is the art and design college of The New School university. It is located in New York City's Greenwich Village, and has produced artists and designers such as Marc Jacobs, Dean and Dan Caten, Norman Rockwell, Donna Karan, Jane...
in Greenwich VillageGreenwich VillageGreenwich Village, , , , .in New York often simply called "the Village", is a largely residential neighborhood on the west side of Lower Manhattan in New York City. A large majority of the district is home to upper middle class families...
. - P. H. EmersonPeter Henry EmersonPeter Henry Emerson was a British writer and photographer. His photographs are early examples of promoting photography as an art form...
publishes his first photographic book, Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads.
Works
- Albert BierstadtAlbert BierstadtAlbert Bierstadt was a German-American painter best known for his lavish, sweeping landscapes of the American West. In obtaining the subject matter for these works, Bierstadt joined several journeys of the Westward Expansion...
- Storm in the Rocky Mountains - 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...
- Hattie - 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 Tub (Musée d'OrsayMusée d'OrsayThe Musée d'Orsay is a museum in Paris, France, on the left bank of the Seine. It is housed in the former Gare d'Orsay, an impressive Beaux-Arts railway station built between 1898 and 1900. The museum holds mainly French art dating from 1848 to 1915, including paintings, sculptures, furniture,...
, ParisParisParis is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
) - Georges-Pierre SeuratGeorges-Pierre SeuratGeorges-Pierre Seurat was a French Post-Impressionist painter and draftsman. He is noted for his innovative use of drawing media and for devising a technique of painting known as pointillism...
- Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte completed (Art Institute of ChicagoArt Institute of ChicagoThe School of the Art Institute of Chicago is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design, located in the Loop in Chicago, Illinois. It is associated with the museum of the same name, and "The Art Institute of Chicago" or "Chicago Art Institute" often refers to either...
) - George Frederick Watts - Hope
Births
- 1 March - Oskar KokoschkaOskar KokoschkaOskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist, poet and playwright best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes.-Biography:...
, 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 artistArtistAn artist is a person engaged in one or more of any of a broad spectrum of activities related to creating art, practicing the arts and/or demonstrating an art. The common usage in both everyday speech and academic discourse is a practitioner in the visual arts only...
, poetPoetA poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...
and playwrightPlaywrightA playwright, also called a dramatist, is a person who writes plays.The term is not a variant spelling of "playwrite", but something quite distinct: the word wright is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder...
(d.19801980 in art-Events:* May–September - Pablo Picasso Retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, the largest and most complete Picasso exhibition ever held in the United States....
). - 19 April - Hermine DavidHérmine DavidHermine Lionette Cartan David was a French painter and the wife of Jules Pascin....
, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
painter (d.19701970 in art-Events:*26 October - Garry Trudeau's comic strip Doonesbury debuts in approximately two dozen newspapers in the United States.*27 November - Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit to Manila....
). - 1 September - Tarsila do AmaralTarsila do AmaralTarsila do Amaral, , known simply as Tarsila, is considered to be one of the leading Latin American modernist artists, described as "the Brazilian painter who best achieved Brazilian aspirations for nationalistic expression in a modern style." She was a member of the Grupo dos Cinco , which...
, BrazilBrazilBrazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is the largest country in South America. It is the world's fifth largest country, both by geographical area and by population with over 192 million people...
ian modernist artist (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:...
). - 16 September - Jean ArpJean ArpJean Arp / Hans Arp was a German-French, or Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist in other media such as torn and pasted paper....
, artist and writer (d.19661966 in art-Events:*The Hairy Who, a group of surrealist iconoclasts later called the Chicago Imagists, first exhibit at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago. They will be the most important art movement to come out of Chicago in the 1960s....
). - 8 December - Diego RiveraDiego RiveraDiego María de la Concepción Juan Nepomuceno Estanislao de la Rivera y Barrientos Acosta y Rodríguez was a prominent Mexican painter born in Guanajuato, Guanajuato, an active communist, and husband of Frida Kahlo . His large wall works in fresco helped establish the Mexican Mural Movement in...
, painter and muralist (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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Deaths
- January 7 - Richard DaddRichard DaddRichard Dadd was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail...
, painter (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...
) - May 19 - Arthur QuartleyArthur QuartleyArthur Quartley , was an American painter known for his marine seascapes.Quartley was born in Paris and lived there to the age of twelve, when his family moved to Baltimore, Maryland. He studied drawing with his father Frederick William Quartley, who was an English engraver. His father was reputed...
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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 29 - Adolphe Joseph Thomas MonticelliAdolphe Joseph Thomas MonticelliAdolphe Joseph Thomas Monticelli was a French painter of the generation preceding the Impressionists.-Biography:Monticelli was born in Marseille in humble circumstances...
, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
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....
) - July 21 - Karl von PilotyKarl von PilotyKarl Theodor von Piloty was a German painter.Von Piloty was born in Munich. His father, Ferdinand Piloty , enjoyed a great reputation as a lithographer. In 1840, Karl was admitted as a student of the Munich Academy, under the artists Karl Schorn and Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld...
, painter (b. 18261826 in art-Works:*Nicéphore Niépce creates first permanent photograph of a natural subject, View from the Window at Le Gras*Thomas Cole – Sunrise in the Catskill Mountains*Horace Vernet – Battle of the Bridge of Arcole-Births:...
) - August 25 - Charles Callahan PerkinsCharles Callahan PerkinsCharles Callahan Perkins was an art critic, author, organizer of cultural activities, and an influential friend of design and of music in Boston.-Biography:...
, art critic and author (b. 18231823 in art-Works:*Gilbert Stuart - Portrait of John Adams *Ferdinand Waldmüller – Portrait of Ludwig van Beethoven-Births:*March 1 – Charles Callahan Perkins, art critic and author...
) - September 17 - Asher Brown DurandAsher Brown DurandAsher Brown Durand was an American painter of the Hudson River School.-Early life:Durand was born in and eventually died in Maplewood, New Jersey , the eighth of eleven children; his father was a watchmaker and a silversmith.Durand was apprenticed to an engraver from 1812 to 1817, later entering...
, painter of the Hudson River SchoolHudson River schoolThe Hudson River School was a mid-19th century American art movement embodied by a group of landscape painters whose aesthetic vision was influenced by romanticism...
(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...
) - September 23 - Thomas WebsterThomas Webster (painter)Thomas Webster , was an English genre painter, who lived for many years at the artists' colony in Cranbrook.-Life:Webster was born in Ranelagh Street, Pimlico, London...
, painter (b. 18001800 in artThe year 1800 in art is often estimated to be the beginning of the change from the Neoclassicism movement, that was based on Roman art, to the Romantic movement, which encouraged emotional art and ended around 1850.-Works:...
) - November 20 - William Bliss BakerWilliam Bliss BakerWilliam Bliss Baker was an American artist born in New York City who was just beginning to hit his stride as a landscape painter in the Realism movement when he died at his father's house at Hoosick Falls, New York at the age of 26 due to a back injury received while ice skating several months...
, AmericanUnited StatesThe United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
painter (b. 18591859 in art-Events:* April 26 - William Morris marries his model, Jane Burden.* Frederic E. Church's The Heart of the Andes is exhibited in New York and draws 12,000 paying visitors....
) - date unknown - Andrew NichollAndrew NichollAndrew Nicholl R.H.A was an Irish painter. He was a founder member of the Belfast Association of Artists and in 1847 was elected as an associate member to the Royal Hibernian Academy, becoming a full member in 1860....
, Irish 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:...
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