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1870 in art
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June 07, 2025
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Events
Paintings
Sculpture
Awards
Births
Deaths
References
Overview of the events of 1870 in art
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Events from the year
1870 in art
.
Events
2 May
– The
Royal Academy Exhibition of 1870
opens at
Burlington House
in London
June 28
–
Claude Monet
marries his mistress and model
Camille Doncieux
in Paris;
Gustave Courbet
is a witness.
July –
Franco-Prussian War
breaks out:
Monet
,
Pissarro
,
Daubigny
and the dealer
Paul Durand-Ruel
flee to
London
;
Cézanne
and his mistress,
Marie-Hortense Fiquet
, leave Paris for
L'Estaque
(on the
French Riviera
) where he predominantly paints landscapes. In August,
Frédéric Bazille
joins a
Zouave
regiment. In September the Dutch painter Lourens Alma Tadema moves permanently to London where he adopts the name
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
.
Édouard Manet
and
Louis Edmond Duranty
fight a duel at
Café Guerbois
, Paris.
Russian
industrialist and patron of the arts
Savva Mamontov
acquires the
Abramtsevo Colony
and hosts a group of traditionalist artists there.
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
's
Poems
are published,
[
1
]
exhumed from
Elizabeth Siddal
's grave.
Daoud Corm
goes to
Rome
to study under
Roberto Bompiani
at the
Accademia di San Luca
.
Paintings
Millais
–
The Boyhood of Raleigh
Wilhelm Amberg
–
Reading from Goethe's Werther
(
Vorlesung aus
Goethes
Werther
)
Frédéric Bazille
Countryside near Lex
Studio in the rue Condamine
La Toilette
Cathy Madox Brown –
Ford Madox Brown at his Easel
Ford Madox Brown
–
Romeo and Juliet
Edward Burne-Jones
–
Phyllis and Demophoon
Paul Cézanne
–
Paul Alexis reading a manuscript to Émile Zola
(1869–70;
São Paulo Museum of Art
)
Edgar Degas
The Dancing Class
(c.)
The Orchestra at the Opera
(c.)
Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ
–
Demosthenes Practicing Oratory
(
Démosthène s'exerçant à la parole
)
Henri Fantin-Latour
–
A Studio in the Batignolles
(
Musée d'Orsay
,
Paris
)
Anselm Feuerbach
–
The Judgement of Paris
(c. 1869–70)
Mariano Fortuny
–
The Spanish Wedding
(
Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya
)
Jean-Léon Gérôme
–
Moorish Bath
Arthur Hughes
–
You Cannot Barre Love Oute
Christian Inger
-
Smith Rescued by Pocahontas
Jean-Paul Laurens
–
Pope Formosus and Stephen VI
(
Le Pape Formose et Étienne VII
)
Édouard Manet
La Brioche
(
Metropolitan Museum of Art
,
New York
)
Effect of Snow on Petit-Montrouge
(
National Museum Cardiff
)
John Everett Millais
–
The Boyhood of Raleigh
(
Tate Britain
,
London
)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Madame Clémentine Valensi Stora (L'Algérienne)
La Promenade
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Beata Beatrix
(approximate completion date)
Sibylla Palmifera
Dmitri Sinodi-Popov
–
An Old Greek
James Tissot
Captain Frederick Gustavus Burnaby
La Partie carrée
Raja Ravi Varma
–
Shakuntala
Sculpture
Statue of Abraham Lincoln (New York City)
Awards
Grand Prix de Rome
, painting:
Grand Prix de Rome
, sculpture:
Grand Prix de Rome
, architecture:
Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas
.
Grand Prix de Rome
, music:
Charles Edouard Lefebvre
&
Henri Maréchal
Births
January 1
–
Louis Vauxcelles
, French Jewish art critic (died
1943
)
January 11
–
Alexander Stirling Calder
, American sculptor (died
1945
)
February 5
–
C. E. Brock
, English painter and illustrator (died
1938
)
March 13
–
William Glackens
, American painter (died 1938)
June 22
–
Antonio Dattilo Rubbo
, Italian-born painter and art teacher (died
1955
)
July 21
–
Emil Orlík
, Czech-born painter and lithographer (died
1932
)
July 25
–
Maxfield Parrish
, American painter and illustrator (died
1966
)
November 18
–
Franz Metzner
, German sculptor (died
1919
)
November 25
–
Maurice Denis
, French painter and decorative artist (died
1943
)
December 23
–
John Marin
, American painter (died
1953
)
date unknown
–
Arthur Diehl
, English-born landscape painter (died
1929
)
Deaths
January 17
–
Alexander Anderson
, American illustrator (born
1775
)
January 27
–
Johannes Flintoe
, Danish-Norwegian painter of Norwegian landscapes (born
1787
)
February 21
–
Robert Jefferson Bingham
, English-born photographer (born 1824 or 1825)
March 19
–
William Egley
, English miniature painter (born
1798
)
April 25
–
Daniel Maclise
, Irish-born painter (born
1806
)
May 17
–
David Octavius Hill
, Scottish painter and pioneer photographer (born
1802
)
July 13
–
Christian Albrecht Jensen
, Danish painter (born
1792
)
August 25
–
Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford
, English francophile art collector (born
1800
)
November 7
–
Cornelia Aletta van Hulst
, Dutch painter (born
1797
)
November 28
–
Frédéric Bazille
, French Impressionist painter (born
1841
) (killed in action)
December 9
Max Emanuel Ainmiller
, German glass painter (born
1807
)
Patrick MacDowell
,
Irish
sculptor
from
Belfast
(born
1799
)
December 12
–
Martin Cregan
, Irish portrait painter (born
1788
)
Undated –
Achille Leonardi
,
Italian
genre painter (born
1800
)
References
↑
Cox, Michael, ed. (2004).
The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature
. Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-860634-6
.
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