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Overview of the events of 1885 in art
Overview of the events of 1885 in art
Events from the year 1885 in art .
Events March 24 [O.S.] – Peter Carl Fabergé presents the first imperial Fabergé egg to Maria Feodorovna , wife of Alexander III of Russia , beginning an Easter tradition that continues until 1917.
May 20 – A letter, "A Woman's Plea", published in The Times models in art. Signed "British Matron" it is in fact written by painter and senior Royal Academician John Callcott Horsley .
June – Paul Gauguin returns to Paris from Copenhagen where he has been unsuccessful in reconciling with his wife.
July 13 – New building for the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam , designed by Pierre Cuypers , opens.
August – First public display of works by Vincent van Gogh , in the windows of the art dealer Leurs at The Hague .
"Glasgow Boys " first exhibit collectively, at the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts .
Aberdeen Art Gallery opens in Scotland.Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery opens in England.The Guildhall Art Gallery opens in the City of London .
The E. B. Crocker Art Gallery is presented to the people of Sacramento, California .
The Opponenterna , a group of Swedish artists, demands that the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts be modernized. Awards Works Thomas Eakins – The Swimming Hole Births January 21 – Duncan Grant , Scottish painter (died 1978 )February 18 – Henri Laurens , French sculptor (died 1954 )February 24 – Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz ('Witkacy'), Polish painter, playwright and novelist (suicide 1939 )March 3 – Cecil Thomas , English bronze sculptor and medallist (died 1976 )March 31 – Pascin , Bulgarian-born painter and draftsman (suicide 1930 )April 4 – Leonardo Dudreville , Italian painter (died 1975 )April 8 – Norman Clyde , American mountaineer, nature photographer and naturalist (died 1972 )April 12 – Robert Delaunay , French painter (died 1941 )May 8 – Charles Walter Simpson , English painter of nature and teacher (died 1971 )May 9 – Gianni Vella , Maltese painter and cartoonist (died 1977 )[2] May 12 – Mario Sironi , Italian painter (died 1961 )June 27 – Arthur Lismer , English-born Canadian painter, member of the Group of Seven (died 1969 )July 5 – André Lhote , French painter and sculptor (died 1962 )July 11 – Roger de La Fresnaye , French cubist painter (died 1925 )July 15 – Josef Frank , Austrian-born architect and designer (died 1967 )August 15 – Nancy Cox-McCormack , American portrait sculptor (died 1967 )August 26 – Gwen Raverat , née Darwin, English wood engraver (died 1957 )August 30 – Paul Gösch , German artist and architect (died 1940 )September 9 – Clare Sheridan , English sculptor and author (died 1970 )September 12 – Heinrich Hoffmann , German propaganda photographer (died 1957 )October 15 – Jóhannes Sveinsson Kjarval , Icelandic painter (died 1972 )October 21 – Jan Altink , Dutch painter (died 1971 )November 14 – Sonia Delaunay , Ukrainian-French artist (died 1979 )December 25 ? – Lucienne Heuvelmans , French sculptor (died 1944 )date unknown – Branko Radulović , Serbian painter (died 1916 )Deaths January 20 – Joseph Niklaus Bütler , Swiss painter (born 1822 )April 18 – Rudolf Eitelberger , Austrian art historian (born 1817 )April 29 – Ernst Joachim Förster , German painter (born 1800 )June 12 – Adolf Mosengel , German landscape painter (born 1837 )June 13 – Carl Arnold Gonzenbach , Swiss painter (born 1806 )July 23 – Pierre Alexandre Schoenewerk , French sculptor (born 1820 )August 30 – Thomas Thornycroft , English sculptor (born 1815 )September 6 – Narcís Monturiol , Spanish artist and engineer (born 1819 )September 23 – Carl Spitzweg , German painter (born 1808 )October 9 – John Bowes , English art collector (born 1811 )December 5 – Wilhelm Ripe , German painter (born 1818 )December 11 – James Fahey , English landscape painter (born 1804 )December 30 – Martha Darley Mutrie , British painter (born 1824 )[3] date unknown – Girolamo Masini , Italian sculptor (born 1840 )References 
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