1884 in art
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Events from the year 1884 in art.
Events
- February 2 â First annual exhibition of Les XX opens at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.[1] Artists invited to show in addition to members of the group include Auguste Rodin, James McNeill Whistler and Max Liebermann.[2]
- March â Theo van Gogh starts buying and selling Impressionist works, beginning with a painting by Pissarro.[3]
- April â Camille Pissarro moves to Ãragny-sur-Epte.
- May 15âJuly 15 â Groupe des Artistes Indépendants stages the first officially sanctioned open exhibition of contemporary art in Paris, including the first showing of Seurat's Bathers at Asnières.
- July 29 â Société des Artistes Indépendants established in Paris under the leadership of Albert Dubois-Pillet.
- August 30 â Austrian painter Marianne Preindlsberger marries English painter Adrian Scott Stokes.
- Summer â Seurat begins work on A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte.
Works
- Michael Ancher â Portrait of my wife, the painter Anna Ancher
- Henry Baerer â Ludwig van Beethoven (bronze sculpture, version for Central Park, New York City)
- Marie Bashkirtseff â The Meeting
- Anna BiliÅska-Bohdanowicz â A Negress
- Jules Breton â The Song of the Lark
- Gustave Caillebotte
- Gustaf Cederström â Funeral procession of King Charles XII
- Giuseppe De Nittis â Breakfast in the Garden
- Albert Edelfelt â Boys Playing on the Shore
- Daniel Chester French â John Harvard (bronze sculpture)
- Jean-Léon Gérôme â A Roman Slave Market
- Alfred Gilbert â sculptures
- Icarus
- Study of a Head
- John Atkinson Grimshaw â The Thames by Moonlight with Southwark Bridge
- Félix Resurrección Hidalgo â Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho
- Henry Holiday â Dante and Beatrice
- John Lavery â On the Bridge at Grez
- Frederic Leighton â Cymon and Iphigenia
- John Seymour Lucas â After Culloden, Rebel Hunting
- Juan Luna â Spoliarium
- Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier â The Siege of Paris in 1870
- John Everett Millais
- Albert Joseph Moore â Reading Aloud
- Edvard Munch â Morning
- John O'Connor â From Pentonville Road looking west, evening
- Anna Petersen â Breton Girl Looking After Plants in the Hothouse
- Edward Poynter â Diadumenè
- Medardo Rosso â Flesh of Others (wax sculpture)
- John Singer Sargent
- Giovanni Segantini - The Bad Mothers
- Georges Seurat â Bathers at Asnières
- Alfred Sisley â The Port of Moret-sur-Loing
- Marie Spartali Stillman â Madonna Pietra degli Scrovigni
- Marianne Stokes â Reflection
- Abbott Handerson Thayer â The Sisters
- Félix Vallotton - Study of Buttocks[4] (c.)
- Vasily Vereshchagin â Blowing from Guns in British India
- Jan Voerman â Days of Mourning
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Births
- February 5 â Vlastislav Hofman, Czech painter and architect (died 1964)
- February 12
- Marie Vassilieff, Russian-French painter (died 1957)[5]
- Max Beckmann, German painter (died 1950)
- May 11 â Stanley Anderson, English engraver (died 1966)
- June 19 â Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French writer and artist (died 1974)
- June 25 â Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German-born French art dealer (died 1979)
- June 30 â Jovan BijeliÄ, Serbian painter (died 1964).
- July 7 â André Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter and graphic artist (died 1974)
- July 12 â Amedeo Modigliani, Italian-born painter and sculptor (died 1920)
- September 1 â Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian painter (died 1961)
- October 6 â MacDonald Gill, English designer (died 1947)
- November 14 â Derwent Lees, Australian artist (died 1931)
- December 12 (November 30 O.S.) â Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born painter (died 1967)
- December 15 â Eugeniusz Zak, Belarusian-born painter (died 1926)
- December 17 â Waldo Peirce, American painter (died 1970)
Deaths
- January 9 â Vito D'Ancona, Italian painter (born 1825)
- January 28 â Alexander Louis Leloir, French painter (born 1843)
- June 13 â Anton Zwengauer, German painter (born 1810)
- June 19 â Adrian Ludwig Richter, German painter and etcher (born 1803)
- October 1 â Theodor Martens, German painter (born 1822)
- October 3 â Hans Makart, Austrian painter and designer (born 1840)
- October 22 â Treffle Berthlaume, Québécois sculptor (born 1803)
- October 31 â Marie Bashkirtseff, Ukrainian-French painter, of TB (born 1858)
- date unknown
- StanisÅaw Chlebowski, Polish painter, especially of oriental themes (born 1835)
- Lina von Perbandt, German landscape painter (born 1836)
- Carlo Randanini, Italian painter (year of birth unknown)