1871 in art
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Events from the year 1871 in art.
Events
- March â Edward Lear settles at his villa in Sanremo.
- Spring â James McNeill Whistler publishes Sixteen etchings of scenes on the Thames and paints his first "moonlights" (later called "nocturnes") of the river.
- March 18âMay 28 â Paris Commune:
- April 5 â Federation of Artists, organized by Gustave Courbet, holds its first meeting in Paris. Membership includes Jules Dalou, Honoré Daumier, André Gill and Eugène Pottier; Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot and Ãdouard Manet are also members but do not actively participate.
- May 16 â Napoleonic column in the Place Vendôme is pulled down according to a suggestion by Courbet, one of the events photographed by Bruno Braquehais.
- May â André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri photographs dead Communards.
- c. May â James Tissot flees Paris for London.
- June 14 â Camille Pissarro marries his mistress Julie Vellay in the London borough of Croydon and moves to Pontoise.
- August 14 â Courbet is sentenced to 6 months imprisonment and a fine for his participation in the Paris Commune; during his time in prison he produces a series of still life paintings of fruit and flowers.[1]
- Summer â Claude Monet visits Zaandam.
- December â Monet and his wife Camille move to Argenteuil.
- William Morris and Dante Gabriel Rossetti become tenants of Kelmscott Manor, which they share with Jane Morris.
- Marie Spartali marries William James Stillman.
- Edwin B. Crocker establishes the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento, California.
Works
- Frederic Edwin Church â The Parthenon
- Antonio Ciseri â Ecce Homo
- Confederate Monument (Liberty, Mississippi)
- Edgar Degas â Count Lepic and His Daughters
- Friedrich Drake â Statue of Alexander von Humboldt (Philadelphia)
- Thomas Eakins â Max Schmitt in a Single Scull
- Martin Johnson Heade â Cattleya Orchid and Three Hummingbirds
- Frank Holl â No Tidings from the Sea
- Daniel Huntington â The Narrows, Lake George
- Eastman Johnson â The Old Stagecoach
- Ivan Kramskoi â The Mermaids
- Ãdouard Manet
- The Harbour at Bordeaux (E.G. Bührle collection, Zürich)
- The Barricade (Civil War) (Museum of Fine Arts (Budapest))
- John Everett Millais
- Claude Monet â A Windmill at Zaandam
- Albert Joseph Moore â Sea Gulls
- Camille Pissarro â Lordship Lane Station, Dulwich
- Vinnie Ream â Abraham Lincoln (marble, United States Capitol rotunda, Washington, D.C.)
- Randolph Rogers â Statue of Abraham Lincoln (bronze, Philadelphia)
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Amanda Sidwall â Self-portrait
- George Blackall Simonds â The Falconer sculpture
- James Tissot â The Farewells
- Vasily Vereshchagin
- Heinrich von Angeli â Crown Princess Victoria of Prussia
- George Frederic Watts â Portrait of Frederic Leighton
- Alfred Waud â A Home on the Mississippi
- James McNeill Whistler
- Arrangement in Grey and Black No.1 ("Whistler's Mother")
- Nocturne: Blue and Silver â Chelsea
- Symphony in Grey: Early Morning, Thames
- Variations in Pink And Grey â Chelsea
- Variations in Violet and Green â Chelsea
Births
- January 27 â Samuel Peploe, Scottish painter (died 1935)
- March 2 â Albert Herter, American painter (died 1950)
- March 9 â Granville Redmond, American painter (died 1935)
- April 11 â Theodor Pallady, Romanian painter (died 1956)
- May ? â Elinor Darwin, née Monsell, Irish-born engraver and portrait painter (died 1954)
- May 1 â Miklós Ligeti, Hungarian sculptor (died 1944)
- May 11 â Mariano Fortuny, Spanish-born fashion designer (died 1949)
- May 27 â Georges Rouault, French Expressionist painter and stained glass artist (died 1958)
- June 12 â Victor David Brenner, Lithuanian-born American medalist, sculptor and engraver (died 1924)
- July 24 â Giacomo Balla, Italian painter (died 1958)
- August 22 â Ãmile André, French architect and designer (died 1933)
- October 26 â Guillermo Kahlo, German-born photographer (died 1941)
- date unknown â Peter Moog, German outsider artist (died 1930)
Deaths
- January 1 â Alexander Munro, Scottish-born Pre-Raphaelite sculptor (born 1825)
- January 14 â Eduardo Zamacois y Zabala, Spanish painter (born 1841)
- January 18 â Sir George Hayter, English painter, specialising in portraits (born 1792)
- January 19 â Henri Regnault, French painter (born 1843)
- February 8 â Moritz von Schwind, Austrian painter (born 1804)
- February 20 â Paul Kane, Irish-Canadian painter (born 1810)
- February 26 â Sophia Hawthorne, American painter and illustrator (born 1809)
- March 3 â Michael Thonet, German-Austrian furniture designer (born 1796)
- March â Emma Fürstenhoff, Swedish florist (born 1802)
- April 6 â Emma Eleonora Kendrick, English miniature painter (born 1788)
- April 24 â Karl Girardet, French painter (born 1813)
- June 9 â Anna Atkins, English botanist and pioneer photographer (born 1799)
- June 19 â Johann Fischbach, Austrian painter of landscapes and genre arts (born 1797)
- July 30 â Edwin Wilkins Field, English lawyer and painter (born 1804)
- October 14 â Johan Frederik Møller, Danish painter and photographer (born 1797)
- December 9 â Josef Mánes, Czech painter (born 1820)
- December 21 â Paul Guigou, French painter (born 1834)