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1881 in art
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Events from the year
1881 in art
.
Events
April – Sixth
Impressionist
exhibition in Paris, at
Nadar
's studio.
[
1
]
May 2
– The
Royal Academy Exhibition of 1881
opens at
Burlington House
in London
August 31
– 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
).
William Powell Frith
–
A Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881
(1883)
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
See also:
Category:1881 sculptures
Lawrence Alma-Tadema
In the Tepidarium
Sappho and Alcaeus
Marie Bashkirtseff
–
The Studio
Jules Bastien-Lepage
–
Pauvre Fauvette
Alfred Boucher
–
La Piété Filiale
(sculpture)
Frank Bramley
–
A Hopeless Dawn
Lady Butler
–
Scotland Forever!
Gustave Caillebotte
-
The Bezique Game (La partie de Bésigue)
Paul Cézanne
–
Self-portrait with olive wallpaper
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
–
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
–
A Street in Brittany
Aleksander Gierymski
–
Jewess with Oranges
Atkinson Grimshaw
Boar Lane, Leeds
Shipping on the Clyde
Ralph Hedley
–
John Graham Lough in His Studio
Jean-Jacques Henner
–
Saint Jerome
Max Klinger
–
Paraphrases about the Finding of a Glove
(
etchings
, printed)
Benjamin Williams Leader
–
February Fill Dyke
Frederic Leighton
Bianca
Whispers
Juan Luna
–
The Death of Cleopatra
Édouard Manet
Dead Eagle Owl
Le Suicidé
Luc-Olivier Merson
–
Nôtre-Dame de Paris
Hendrik Willem Mesdag
–
Panorama Mesdag
John Everett Millais
–
Portrait of Benjamin Disraeli
Claude Monet
Waves Breaking
[
3
]
Albert Joseph Moore
Blossoms
Yellow Marguerites
Hjalmar Munsterhjelm
–
Woodland Pool by Moonlight
Giovanni Muzzioli
–
In the Temple of Bacchus
Jean-François Raffaëlli
–
Les déclassés (The Absinthe Drinkers)
Vinnie Ream
–
Admiral David G. Farragut
(bronze, Washington, D.C.)
Renoir
-
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Bay of Naples, Evening
[
4
]
Blonde Bather
(first version)
Luncheon of the Boating Party
Pink and Blue
Ilya Repin
Polina Strepetova as Lizaveta
Portrait of Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
–
Found
(work finished but never completed)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens
–
Admiral David Glasgow Farragut
(bronze, Manhattan)
John Singer Sargent
–
Dr. Samuel Jean Pozzi at Home
Henryk Siemiradzki
–
The Sword Dance
William Stott of Oldham
–
Le Passeur
("The Ferry",
Tate Britain
)
Henry Jones Thaddeus
–
La retour du bracconier (The Wounded Poacher)
James Tissot
–
Goodbye, on the Mersey
Viktor Vasnetsov
Alenushka
Three Tsarevnas of the Underground Kingdom
James McNeill Whistler
–
Portrait of Lady Meux
in two completed versions:
Arrangement in Black, No. 5
Harmony in Pink and Grey
Births
January 4
–
Wilhelm Lehmbruck
,
German
sculptor (suicide
1919
)
January 5
–
Pablo Gargallo
,
Aragonese
painter and sculptor (died
1934
)
February 4
–
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
–
William John Leech
,
Irish
painter (died
1968
)
April 16
–
Fortunino Matania
, Italian-born illustrator and war artist (died
1963
)
July 12
–
Natalia Goncharova
,
Russian
theatrical costume and set designer, painter and illustrator (died
1962
)
[
5
]
July 28
–
Léon Spilliaert
,
Belgian
symbolist painter and graphic artist (died
1946
)
July 29
–
Jessie Traill
,
Australian
printmaker (died
1967
)
August 4
–
Wenzel Hablik
,
Bohemian
painter, graphic artist, designer (died
1934
)
October 4
-
René Gimpel
, French artbdealer (died
1945
)
October 25
–
Pablo Picasso
,
Spanish
painter,
draughtsman
and
sculptor
(died
1973
)
December 8
–
Albert Gleizes
, French painter (died
1953
)
December 31
–
Max Pechstein
, German painter (died
1955
)
uncertain
William Conor
, Irish painter (died
1968
)
Nazmi Ziya Güran
, Turkish painter (died
1937
)
Deaths
January 3
–
Anna McNeill Whistler
, "Whistler's Mother" (born
1804
)
January 24
–
James Collinson
, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (born
1825
)
February 9
–
Jacques-Édouard Gatteaux
, French sculptor and medal engraver (born
1788
)
March 11
–
Thomas Brigstocke
,
Welsh
portrait painter (born
1809
)
May 24
–
Samuel Palmer
, English painter, etcher and lithographer (born
1805
)
July 25
–
Edward Charles Williams
, English landscape painter (born
1807
)
December 6
–
Thomas Skinner
, English etcher (poisoned; born
1819
)
December 13
–
John Quidor
, American painter (born
1801
)
December 14
–
Berndt Godenhjelm
, Finnish painter (born
1799
)
December 21
-
Francesco Hayez
, Italian historical, portrait and political painter (born
1791
)
References
↑
"Impressionist Exhibitions in Paris (1874-86)"
.
Encyclopedia of Art History
. Retrieved
2015-06-17
.
↑
Cox, Michael, ed. (2004).
The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature
. Oxford University Press.
ISBN
0-19-860634-6
.
↑
"Waves Breaking - Claude Monet"
.
Art.famsf.org
. 17 August 2020
. Retrieved
13 November
2021
.
↑
"Bay of Naples, Evening"
.
Clarkart.edu
. Retrieved
13 November
2021
.
↑
Sharp, Jane A. (2000). "Natalia Goncharova". In Bowlt, John E.; Drutt, Matthew (eds.).
Amazons of the Avant-Garde: Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, Liubov Popova, Olga Rozanova, Varvara Stepanova, and Nadezhda Udaltsova
. New York: Guggenheim Museum. p.
155.
ISBN
978-0-89207-225-5
.
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