1870 in art
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Events from the year 1870 in art.
Events
- 2 May â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1870 opens at Burlington House in London
- June 28 â Claude Monet marries his mistress and model Camille Doncieux in Paris; Gustave Courbet is a witness.
- July â Franco-Prussian War breaks out: Monet, Pissarro, Daubigny and the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel flee to London; Cézanne and his mistress, Marie-Hortense Fiquet, leave Paris for L'Estaque (on the French Riviera) where he predominantly paints landscapes. In August, Frédéric Bazille joins a Zouave regiment. In September the Dutch painter Lourens Alma Tadema moves permanently to London where he adopts the name Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
- Ãdouard Manet and Louis Edmond Duranty fight a duel at Café Guerbois, Paris.
- Russian industrialist and patron of the arts Savva Mamontov acquires the Abramtsevo Colony and hosts a group of traditionalist artists there.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems are published,[1] exhumed from Elizabeth Siddal's grave.
- Daoud Corm goes to Rome to study under Roberto Bompiani at the Accademia di San Luca.
Paintings
- Wilhelm Amberg â Reading from Goethe's Werther (Vorlesung aus Goethes Werther)
- Frédéric Bazille
- Cathy Madox Brown â Ford Madox Brown at his Easel
- Ford Madox Brown â Romeo and Juliet
- Edward Burne-Jones â Phyllis and Demophoon
- Paul Cézanne â Paul Alexis reading a manuscript to Ãmile Zola (1869â70; São Paulo Museum of Art)
- Edgar Degas
- The Dancing Class (c.)
- The Orchestra at the Opera (c.)
- Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ â Demosthenes Practicing Oratory (Démosthène s'exerçant à la parole)
- Henri Fantin-Latour â A Studio in the Batignolles (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- Anselm Feuerbach â The Judgement of Paris (c. 1869â70)
- Mariano Fortuny â The Spanish Wedding (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya)
- Jean-Léon Gérôme â Moorish Bath
- Arthur Hughes â You Cannot Barre Love Oute
- Christian Inger - Smith Rescued by Pocahontas
- Jean-Paul Laurens â Pope Formosus and Stephen VI (Le Pape Formose et Ãtienne VII)
- Ãdouard Manet
- John Everett Millais
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Beata Beatrix (approximate completion date)
- Sibylla Palmifera
- Dmitri Sinodi-Popov â An Old Greek
- James Tissot
- Raja Ravi Varma â Shakuntala
Sculpture
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
- Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas.
- Grand Prix de Rome, music: Charles Edouard Lefebvre & Henri Maréchal
Births
- January 1 â Louis Vauxcelles, French Jewish art critic (died 1943)
- January 11 â Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor (died 1945)
- February 5 â C. E. Brock, English painter and illustrator (died 1938)
- March 13 â William Glackens, American painter (died 1938)
- June 22 â Antonio Dattilo Rubbo, Italian-born painter and art teacher (died 1955)
- July 21 â Emil OrlÃk, Czech-born painter and lithographer (died 1932)
- July 25 â Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator (died 1966)
- November 4 â Basil Temple Blackwood, British book illustrator (died 1917)
- November 18 â Franz Metzner, German sculptor (died 1919)
- November 25 â Maurice Denis, French painter and decorative artist (died 1943)
- December 23 â John Marin, American painter (died 1953)
- date unknown â Arthur Diehl, English-born landscape painter (died 1929)
Deaths
- January 17 â Alexander Anderson, American illustrator (born 1775)
- January 27 â Johannes Flintoe, Danish-Norwegian painter of Norwegian landscapes (born 1787)
- February 21 â Robert Jefferson Bingham, English-born photographer (born 1824 or 1825)
- March 19 â William Egley, English miniature painter (born 1798)
- April 25 â Daniel Maclise, Irish-born painter (born 1806)
- May 17 â David Octavius Hill, Scottish painter and pioneer photographer (born 1802)
- July 13 â Christian Albrecht Jensen, Danish painter (born 1792)
- August 25 â Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford, English francophile art collector (born 1800)
- November 7 â Cornelia Aletta van Hulst, Dutch painter (born 1797)
- November 28 â Frédéric Bazille, French Impressionist painter (born 1841) (killed in action)
- December 9
- Max Emanuel Ainmiller, German glass painter (born 1807)
- Patrick MacDowell, Irish sculptor from Belfast (born 1799)
- December 12 â Martin Cregan, Irish portrait painter (born 1788)
- Undated â Achille Leonardi, Italian genre painter (born 1800)