1878 in art
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Events from the year 1878 in art.
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Events
- 6 May â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1878 opens at Burlington House in London
- November 25 â 26 â James McNeill Whistler's libel case against English art critic John Ruskin over a scathing 1877 review of Whistler's painting Nocturne in Black and Gold â The Falling Rocket is heard in the High Court of Justice in London. Whistler wins a farthing in nominal damages and only half of the costs, leading to his bankruptcy, and alienates patrons.
- French critic Théodore Duret publishes the pamphlet Les Peintres impressionistes.
- Czech painter Karel KlÃÄ perfects the photogravure process.
Works
- Ivan Aivazovsky â Sea View by Moonlight
- Jules Bastien-Lepage
- Les Enfants Pecheurs ("The child fishers")
- Les Foins ("Haymaking")
- Reinhold Begas â Mercury and Psyche (marble, Berlin, Germany)
- Emmanuel Benner â Lakeside Dwelling
- Gustave Caillebotte
- Mary Cassatt
- Eduard Charlemont â The Moorish Chief
- William Merritt Chase
- A Fishmarket in Venice
- The Mandolin Player
- StanisÅaw Chlebowski â Sultan Bayezid prisoned by Timur
- James Collinson â The Holy Family
- Evelyn De Morgan â Night and Sleep
- Maurycy Gottlieb â Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur
- Jean-Jacques Henner
- The Magdalene
- Portrait of M. Hayem
- Ivan Kramskoi â Portrait of the Artist Alexander Litovchenko
- Robert Walker Macbeth â Sedge Cutting in Wicken Fen, Cambridgeshire, early morning
- Ãdouard Manet
- Jan Matejko â Battle of Grunwald
- John Everett Millais
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir â Madame Georges Charpentier and her children
- Ilya Repin â Self-portrait
- Briton Rivière
- An Anxious Moment
- Persepolis
- Auguste Rodin â The Walking Man (bronze)
- Félicien Rops â Pornocrates
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- The Blessed Damozel (probable completion date)
- A Vision of Fiammetta
- August Friedrich Schenck - Anguish
- Alfred Sisley â Snow at Louveciennes (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- Elizabeth Thompson â Listed for the Connaught Rangers
- James Tissot
- Viktor Vasnetsov â The Knight at the Crossroads
- Hubert von Herkomer â Eventide: A Scene in the Westminster Union[1]
- William Frederick Yeames â And When Did You Last See Your Father? (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool)
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Births
- 4 January â Augustus John, Welsh painter (died 1961)
- 16 January â Karl Isakson, Swedish painter (died 1922)
- 14 February â Bohumil Kafka, Bohemian Czech sculptor (died 1942)
- 27 February â Max Silberberg, German Jewish industrialist and art collector (killed after 1942)
- 12 March â Gerda Höglund, Swedish religious painter (died 1973)
- 27 March â Kathleen Bruce (later Lady Scott), English sculptor (died 1947)
- 28 March â Abraham Walkowitz, American Modernist painter (died 1965)
- 1 April â Alfred Flechtheim, German art dealer, collector and publisher (died 1937)
- 2 April â Ãmilie Charmy, French artist (died 1974)
- 24 April â Jean Crotti, French painter (died 1958)
- 26 May â Spencer Gore, English painter (died 1914)
- 9 August â Eileen Gray, Irish furniture designer and architect (died 1976)
- 7 October â Feliu Elias, Spanish caricaturist and painter (died 1948)
- 8 October â Alfred Munnings, English equine painter (died 1959)
- 14 November â Julie Manet, French painter and art collector (died 1966)
- 23 November â Frank Pick, English transport administrator and patron of art and design (died 1941)
- 24 November â Norman Wilkinson, English marine artist (died 1971)
- 27 November â William Orpen, Irish portrait painter (died 1931)
Deaths
- January 26 â Théophile Schuler, French painter and illustrator (born 1821)
- February â Tito Angelini, Italian sculptor (born 1806)
- February 9 â Nicolas Gosse, French historical painter (born 1787)
- February 19
- George Paul Chalmers, Scottish painter (born 1833; died as the result of a street attack)
- Charles-François Daubigny, French painter (born 1817)
- February 26 â Alexandre Antigna, French painter (born 1817)
- March 3 â Joseph Bonomi the Younger, English sculptor, artist, Egyptologist and museum curator (born 1796)
- April 14 â Ludovic Piette, French impressionist painter (born 1826)
- April 23 â Jaroslav Äermák, Czech historical painter (born 1831)
- May 25 â Antoine Laurent Dantan, French academic sculptor (born 1798)
- June 10 â Tranquillo Cremona, Italian painter (born 1837)
- June 16 â Kikuchi YÅsai, Japanese painter most famous for his monochrome portraits of historical figures (born 1788)
- August 21 â Conrad Martens, English-born landscape painter (born 1801)
- October 5 â Francis Grant, Scottish painter (born 1803)
- November 11 â Robert Havell, Jr., English principal engraver of Audubon's The Birds of America (born 1793)
- November 16 â Äura JakÅ¡iÄ, Serbian painter and poet (born 1832)
- December 19 â Joseph Nash, English watercolour painter and lithographer (born 1809)
- date unknown â Amédée Faure, French portrait painter (born 1801)