1879 in art
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Events from the year 1879 in art.
Events
- April 10 â May 11 â Fourth Impressionist exhibition in Paris, arranged by Gustave Caillebotte at 28 avenue de l'Opéra.[1]
- Ford Madox Brown begins painting The Manchester Murals in Manchester Town Hall (England).
- Chicago Academy of Fine Arts established.
- Guimet Museum of Asian art established in Lyon, France.
- Museum of Fine Arts Berne established in Switzerland.
- Kate Greenaway's first book, with her own colour illustrations, Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children, is published in London.
Works
- Michael Ancher â Vil han klare pynten (Will he round the point)
- Albert Fitch Bellows â The Parsonage
- William-Adolphe Bouguereau â The Birth of Venus
- William Burges â Golden Bed
- Edward Burne-Jones â The Annunciation
- John Ward Dunsmore â Portrait of Thomas Couture (1815â1879) on His Deathbed (chalk on paper mounted on canvas)[2]
- Edgar Degas
- Gustave Achille Guillaumet â Laghouat in the Algerian Sahara
- Ivan Kramskoi â Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
- Jules Joseph Lefebvre â Diana Surprised
- George Dunlop Leslie â Alice in Wonderland
- John Seymour Lucas â The Gordon Riots
- Ãdouard Manet
- John Everett Millais
- Albert Joseph Moore â Topaz
- Vasily Perov â Pugachev's Judgement
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir â The Dreamer
- John Singer Sargent
- In the Luxembourg Gardens (Luxembourg Gardens at Twilight)
- Portrait of Carolus-Duran
- Charlotte Schreiber â The Croppy Boy (The Confession of an Irish Patriot)
- James Tissot â Mrs. Newton with a Parasol (approximate date)
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Births
- January 13 â William Reid Dick, Scottish sculptor (died 1961)
- March 27 â Edward Steichen, American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator (died 1973)
- June 4 â Mabel Lucie Attwell, English illustrator (died 1964)
- July 26 â Maria Bal, Polish model (died 1955)
- September 23 â Charles Camoin, French painter (died 1965)
- October 22 â Sir Matthew Smith, English painter (died 1959)
- November 18 â Sybil Pye, English bookbinder (died 1958)
- December 18 â Paul Klee, Swiss painter (died 1940)
Deaths
- January 26 â Julia Margaret Cameron, British photographer in Ceylon (born 1815)
- February 10 â Honoré Daumier, French painter, sculptor and caricaturist (born 1808)
- March 21 â Valentine Bartholomew, English flower painter (born 1799)
- March 27 â Hércules Florence, French-born Brazilian painter and pioneer photographer (born 1817)
- March 30 â Thomas Couture, French painter and art teacher (born 1815)
- May 8 â Henry Collen, English royal miniature portrait painter (born 1797)
- June 24 â Eliseo Sala, Italian painter (born 1813)
- July 7 â George Caleb Bingham, American realist artist (born 1811)
- July 16 â Frederick Langenheim, German American pioneer of panoramic photography (born 1809)
- July 17 â Maurycy Gottlieb, Polish Jewish painter (born 1804)
- August 3 â Joseph Severn, English portrait and subject painter (born 1793)
- September 5 â Camille Doncieux, French first wife and model of Claude Monet (born 1847)
- September 6 â Amédée de Noé, French caricaturist (born 1818)
- September 8 â William Morris Hunt, American painter (born 1824)
- November 2 â Abbondio Sangiorgio, Italian sculptor (born 1798)
- November 18 â André Giroux, French painter and photographer (born 1801)
- December 1 â Franz Ittenbach, German religious painter (born 1813)
- ChÅ KÅran, Japanese poet and nanga artist (born 1804)