1881 in art

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List of years in Art

Events

• The Société des Artistes Français is established, with William-Adolphe Bouguereau as its first president.

Works

See also: Category:1881 paintings

• Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Tepidarium
• Marie Bashkirtseff - The Studio
• Edgar Degas - Trotting Horse (California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco)
• William Powell Frith - A Private View at the Royal Academy
• Jean-Jacques Henner - Saint Jerome
• Luc-Olivier Merson - Nôtre-Dame de Paris
• Giovanni Muzzioli - In the Temple of Bacchus
• Pierre Puvis de Chavannes - The Poor Fisherman (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)

Births

• January 4 - Wilhelm Lehmbruck, sculptor (d.1919)
• January 5 - Pablo Gargallo, painter and sculptor (d.1934)
• February 4 - Fernand Léger, painter (d.1955)
• August 4 - Wenzel Hablik, painter, graphic artist, designer (d. 1934)
• October 25 - Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, draughtsman, and sculptor (d.1973)
• December 8 - Albert Gleizes, painter (d.1953)
• December 31 - Max Pechstein, painter (d.1955)

uncertain - William Conor, Irish painter (d.1968)

Deaths

• January 3 - Anna McNeill Whistler, "Whistler's Mother" (b. 1804)
• January 24 - James Collinson, Pre-Raphaelite painter (b. 1825)
• May 24 - Samuel Palmer, painter, etcher and lithographer (b. 1805)
• July 25 - Edward Charles Williams, landscape painter (b. 1807)
• December 13 - John Quidor, painter (b. 1801)