1873 in art
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Events from the year 1873 in art.
Events
- Early â Pre-Raphaelite painter Simeon Solomon is arrested in a public urinal in London and convicted and fined for gross indecency.[1]
- May â Vincent van Gogh is re-located to London by his employer, the art dealers Goupil & Cie.
- World exhibition in Vienna.
- Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and Sisley organize the Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs, etc. for the purpose of exhibiting artworks independently.
- The collection forming the Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria is moved to the Palazzo dei Priori, Perugia.
- New Accademia delle Arti del Disegno established in Florence.
- Leslie Ward, as "Spy", begins producing caricatures for the British magazine Vanity Fair.
- Michelangelo's statue of David is removed from the Piazza della Signoria in Florence to the Galleria dell'Accademia.
Works
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau â Nymphs and Satyr
- Edward Burne-Jones â Love Among the Ruins (original watercolour version)
- Alexandre Cabanel â La Comtesse de Keller
- Gustave Caillebotte â Nude woman lying on a couch
- Philip Hermogenes Calderon â Letter From Daddy
- Mary Cassatt â After the Bullfight[2]
- Walter Crane â Shelley's Tomb in the Protestant Cemetery in Rome
- Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville â The Last Cartridges (Les dernières cartouches)
- Edgar Degas â A Cotton Office in New Orleans
- Jean-Léon Gérôme â Ãminence Grise
- Hans Gude â Nødhavn Ved Norskekysten
- Winslow Homer â The Boat Builders
- William Holman Hunt â The Shadow of Death
- Rudolf Koller â Gotthardpost
- Ivan Kramskoi
- Ivan Shishkin
- Leo Tolstoy
- Ãdouard Manet
- Le Bon Bock ("The Good Pint") (Philadelphia Museum of Art)
- The Railway ("The Gare Saint-Lazare") (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.)
- Jan Matejko â Astronomer Copernicus, or Conversations with God
- Pál Szinyei Merse â Picnic in May (National Gallery of Hungary, Budapest)
- John Everett Millais
- Claude Monet
- Albert Joseph Moore â Follow-my-Leader
- Camille Pissarro â Self-portrait
- Ilya Repin â Barge Haulers on the Volga
- John Roddam Spencer Stanhope â The Gentle Music of a Bygone Day
- Heinrich Strack â Berlin Victory Column
- James Tissot
- James McNeill Whistler â Arrangement in Grey and Black, No. 2: Portrait of Thomas Carlyle
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Births
- January 28 â Charles Sims, English painter (suicide 1928)
- February 14 â Albert Guillaume, French painter and caricaturist (died 1942)
- March 13 â Léon Delagrange, French sculptor and aviator (died 1910)[4]
- April 3 â Rista VukanoviÄ, Serbian Impressionist painter and husband of painter Beta VukanoviÄ (died 1918)
- April 4 â Ãlie Faure, French art historian (died 1937)
- April 24 â André Bauchant, French painter (died 1958)
- May 10 â Carl Eldh, Swedish painter and sculptor (died 1954)
- July 6 â Ethel Sands, American-born painter (died 1962)
- July 7 â Albert Moulton Foweraker, English painter (died 1942)
- October 12 â Nadežda PetroviÄ, Serbian Fauvist painter (died 1915)
- December 5 â Julian Smith Australian surgeon and photographer was born in England (died 1947)
- date unknown â Jane Emmet de Glehn, American painter (died 1961)
- approximate date â Olowe of Ise, Yoruba wood sculptor (died c. 1938)
Deaths
- March 25 â Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (born 1810)[5]
- April 17 â Fyodor Petrovich Tolstoy, Russian painter, engraver and silhouettist (born 1783)
- April 28 â Giovanni Maria Benzoni, Italian sculptor (born 1809)
- May 13 â Konstantin Danil, renowned Serbian painter (born 1798)
- May 19 â Charles Lucy, English painter (born 1814)
- July 8 â Franz Xaver Winterhalter, German painter (born 1805)
- October 2 â Cornelius Varley, English watercolor painter (born 1881)
- October 9 â John Evan Thomas, Welsh sculptor (born 1810)
- November 25 â Hans Harder, Danish painter and drawing master (born 1792)
- November 27 â Edmund Thomas Parris, English historical, portrait, subject, and panorama painter, book illustrator, designer and art restorer (born 1793)
- December 9 â William Bent Berczy, painter and political figure in Upper Canada (born 1791)
- date unknown
- Nikola AleksiÄ, Serbian portraitist in both the Biedermeier and Nazarene movement (born 1808)
- Thomas Frank Heaphy, English miniature painter (born 1813)
- Ignatius Josephus van Regemorter, Flemish historical, landscape, and genre painter and engraver (born 1785)