1881 in art
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Events from the year 1881 in art.
Events
- April â Sixth Impressionist exhibition in Paris, at Nadar's studio.[1]
- May 2 â The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1881 opens at Burlington House in London
- August 31 â English painters Thomas Cooper Gotch and Caroline Burland Yates marry at Newlyn.
- The Société des Artistes Français is established, with William-Adolphe Bouguereau as its first president.
- Vincent van Gogh returns from study in Brussels to his parents' home in Etten (Netherlands) where he produces a number of early works, including the start of his series of peasant character studies and still lifes (including Still Life with Straw Hat).
- Art Gallery of South Australia established in Adelaide.
- St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts established at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, under the direction of Halsey Ives.
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Ballads and Sonnets published.[2]
Works
- Lawrence Alma-Tadema
- Marie Bashkirtseff â The Studio
- Jules Bastien-Lepage â Pauvre Fauvette
- Alfred Boucher â La Piété Filiale (sculpture)
- Frank Bramley â A Hopeless Dawn
- Lady Butler â Scotland Forever!
- Gustave Caillebotte - The Bezique Game (La partie de Bésigue)
- Paul Cézanne â Self-portrait with olive wallpaper
- Pierre Puvis de Chavannes â The Poor Fisherman (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
- John Collier
- Charles Darwin
- Sir George Jessel
- Edgar Degas
- Little Dancer of Fourteen Years (sculpture)
- Trotting Horse (California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco)
- Stanhope Forbes â A Street in Brittany
- Aleksander Gierymski â Jewess with Oranges
- Atkinson Grimshaw
- Ralph Hedley â John Graham Lough in His Studio
- Jean-Jacques Henner â Saint Jerome
- Max Klinger â Paraphrases about the Finding of a Glove (etchings, printed)
- Benjamin Williams Leader â February Fill Dyke
- Frederic Leighton
- Bianca
- Whispers
- Juan Luna â The Death of Cleopatra
- Ãdouard Manet
- Luc-Olivier Merson â Nôtre-Dame de Paris
- Hendrik Willem Mesdag â Panorama Mesdag
- John Everett Millais
- Claude Monet - Waves Breaking[3]
- Albert Joseph Moore
- Blossoms
- Yellow Marguerites
- Hjalmar Munsterhjelm â Woodland Pool by Moonlight
- Giovanni Muzzioli â In the Temple of Bacchus
- Jean-François Raffaëlli â Les déclassés (The Absinthe Drinkers)
- Vinnie Ream â Admiral David G. Farragut (bronze, Washington, D.C.)
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Bay of Naples, Evening[4]
- Blonde Bather (first version)
- Luncheon of the Boating Party
- Pink and Blue
- Ilya Repin
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti â Found (work finished but never completed)
- Augustus Saint-Gaudens â Admiral David Glasgow Farragut (bronze, Manhattan)
- John Singer Sargent â Dr. Samuel Jean Pozzi at Home
- Henryk Siemiradzki â The Sword Dance
- William Stott of Oldham â Le Passeur ("The Ferry", Tate Britain)
- Henry Jones Thaddeus â La retour du bracconier (The Wounded Poacher)
- James Tissot â Goodbye, on the Mersey
- Viktor Vasnetsov
- James McNeill Whistler â Portrait of Lady Meux in two completed versions:
- Arrangement in Black, No. 5
- Harmony in Pink and Grey
Births
- January 4 â Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor (suicide 1919)
- January 5 â Pablo Gargallo, Aragonese painter and sculptor (died 1934)
- February 4 â Fernand Léger, French painter (died 1955)
- February 11
- Carlo Carrà , Italian painter (died 1966)
- Robert Borlase Smart, English painter and critic (died 1947)
- April 10 â William John Leech, Irish painter (died 1968)
- April 16 â Fortunino Matania, Italian-born illustrator and war artist (died 1963)
- July 12 â Natalia Goncharova, Russian theatrical costume and set designer, painter and illustrator (died 1962)[5]
- July 28 â Léon Spilliaert, Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist (died 1946)
- July 29 â Jessie Traill, Australian printmaker (died 1967)
- August 4 â Wenzel Hablik, Bohemian painter, graphic artist, designer (died 1934)
- October 4 - René Gimpel, French artbdealer (died 1945)
- October 25 â Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, draughtsman and sculptor (died 1973)
- December 8 â Albert Gleizes, French painter (died 1953)
- December 31 â Max Pechstein, German painter (died 1955)
- uncertain
- William Conor, Irish painter (died 1968)
- Nazmi Ziya Güran, Turkish painter (died 1937)
Deaths
- January 3 â Anna McNeill Whistler, "Whistler's Mother" (born 1804)
- January 24 â James Collinson, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (born 1825)
- February 9 â Jacques-Ãdouard Gatteaux, French sculptor and medal engraver (born 1788)
- March 11 â Thomas Brigstocke, Welsh portrait painter (born 1809)
- May 24 â Samuel Palmer, English painter, etcher and lithographer (born 1805)
- July 25 â Edward Charles Williams, English landscape painter (born 1807)
- December 6 â Thomas Skinner, English etcher (poisoned; born 1819)
- December 13 â John Quidor, American painter (born 1801)
- December 14 â Berndt Godenhjelm, Finnish painter (born 1799)
- December 21 - Francesco Hayez, Italian historical, portrait and political painter (born 1791)