1880 in art
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Events from the year 1880 in art.
Events
- October â Vincent van Gogh enrolls in a beginners art course at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
- Fifth Impressionist exhibition in Paris, at 10 rue des Pyramides.[1] The realist painter Jean-François Raffaëlli is also invited by Degas to exhibit.
- Silver Studio founded by Arthur Silver in London for textile and wallpaper design.
- Anton Mauve paints Changing Pasture; his palette and usage of colour influences Vincent van Gogh.
- Michael Ancher marries fellow painter Anna Brøndum.
- National Gallery of Canada established in Ottawa.
Awards
- Grand Prix de Rome, painting: Henri Lucien Doucet.
- Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
- Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
- Grand Prix de Rome, music: Lucien Joseph Edouard Hillemacher.
Works
- Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi â The Lion of Belfort
- Marie Bashkirtseff â Self-portrait
- Arnold Böcklin â Isle of the Dead (German: Die Toteninsel, first two versions)
- Marie Bracquemond â On the terrace at Sèvres
- Thomas Brock â A Moment of Peril (equestrian bronze)
- Lady Butler â The Defence of Rorke's Drift
- Alexandre Cabanel â Phèdre
- Gustave Caillebotte
- A Balcony
- Boulevard des Italiens
- Boulevard Seen from Above
- The Bezique Game
- In a Café
- Interior
- Interior, or Woman reading
- A refuge, boulevard Haussmann
- Man on the balcony, boulevard Haussmann
- Man with a top-hat, seated by a window
- Nude on a divan
- Paul Cézanne â View of Auvers-sur-Oise
- Carl Conrads - Statue of Alexander Hamilton (granite)
- Pierre Auguste Cot - The Storm
- Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville â The Defence of Rorke's Drift, 1879
- Edgar Degas â Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery (etching)
- Thomas Eakins â The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand
- Giovanni Fattori â Quadrato di Villafranca
- Charles Gauthier â Cléopâtre (plaster)
- James Clarke Hook â Home with the Tide
- Daniel Huntington â Portrait of John Adams Dix
- Ivan Kramskoi
- Sergey Botkin
- Ivan Shishkin
- Edward Lear â The Plains of Lombardy from Monte Generoso (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
- Ãdouard Manet
- Albert Joseph Moore â Rose Leaves
- Adolph Alphonse de Neuville â The Defence of Rorke's Drift
- Frank O'Meara â Autumnal greys (Forest of Fontainbleau)
- William Quiller Orchardson â Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon
- Edward Poynter â A Visit to Aesculapius
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Annie Robinson â Susan Isabel Dacre
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti â The Day Dream
- Fritz Schaper â Goethe Monument (Berlin)
- Viktor Vasnetsov â Flying Carpet
- Henry Tanworth Wells â Victoria Regina
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Births
- February 1 â C. T. Loo, Chinese-born art dealer (died 1957)
- February 3 â Frances Darlington, English relief sculpture (died 1940)
- February 8 â Franz Marc, German painter and printmaker, co-founder of Der Blaue Reiter (killed in action 1916)
- March 2 â Joseph Ehrismann, German-born painter and stained-glass maker (died 1937)
- March 21 â Hans Hofmann, German-born abstract expressionist painter and teacher (died 1966)
- April 4 â William Russell Flint, Scottish-born watercolourist (died 1969)
- April 7 â Alexander Bogomazov, Ukrainian painter, artist and modern art theoretician of Russian avant-garde (died 1930)
- May 6 â Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German expressionist painter, co-founder of Die Brücke (suicide 1938)
- June 10 â André Derain, French Fauvist painter (died 1954)
- August 2 â Arthur Dove, American painter (died 1946)
- August 22 â George Herriman, American cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (died 1944)
- November 19 â Jacob Epstein, American-born British sculptor (died 1959)
Deaths
- January 4 â Anselm Feuerbach, German classicist painter (born 1829)
- February 19 â Constantino Brumidi, American historicist fresco painter (born 1805)
- September 8 â Wilhelm August Rieder, Austrian painter and draughtsman (born 1796)
- October 10 â Giampietro Campana, Italian art collector (born 1808)
- November 20 â Léon Cogniet, French historical and portrait painter (born 1794)
- date unknown
- Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire, French sculptor (born 1798)
- Henry O'Neill, Irish illustrator and antiquarian (born 1798)
- Nicolae Teodorescu, Moldavian, later Romanian church painter (muralist) (born 1797)