1884 in art

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Events from the year 1884 in art.

Events

February 2 – 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 – Theo van Gogh starts buying and selling Impressionist works, beginning with a painting by Pissarro.^[3]
April – Camille Pissarro moves to Éragny-sur-Epte.
May 15–July 15 – Groupe des Artistes Indépendants stages the first officially sanctioned open exhibition of contemporary art in Paris.
July 29 – Société des Artistes Indépendants established in Paris under the leadership of Albert Dubois-Pillet.
August 30 – Austrian painter Marianne Preindlsberger marries English painter Adrian Scott Stokes.

Works

Michael Ancher – Portrait of my wife, the painter Anna Ancher
Henry Baerer – Ludwig van Beethoven (bronze sculpture, version for Central Park, New York City)
Marie Bashkirtseff – The Meeting
Jules Breton – The Song of the Lark
Gustave Caillebotte
- Houses at Trouville
- Man at his bath
- Man wearing a blouse
- The Yellow Fields at Gennevilliers
Gustaf Cederström – Funeral procession of King Charles XII
Daniel Chester French – John Harvard (bronze sculpture)
Alfred Gilbert – sculptures
- Icarus
- Study of a Head
Félix Resurrección Hidalgo – Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho
Henry Holiday – Dante and Beatrice
John Lavery – On the Bridge at Grez
Frederic Leighton – Cymon and Iphigenia
John Seymour Lucas – After Culloden: Rebel Hunting
Juan Luna – Spoliarium
Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier – The Siege of Paris in 1870
John Everett Millais – Message from the Sea
Albert Joseph Moore – Reading Aloud
Edvard Munch – Morning
John O'Connor – From Pentonville Road looking west, evening
Anna Petersen – Breton Girl Looking After Plants in the Hothouse
Medardo Rosso – Flesh of Others (wax sculpture)
John Singer Sargent – Portrait of Madame X
Georges-Pierre Seurat – Bathers at Asnières
Alfred Sisley – The Port of Moret-sur-Loing
Marie Spartali Stillman – Madonna Pietra degli Scrovigni
Marianne Stokes – Reflection
Abbott Handerson Thayer – The Sisters
Vasily Vereshchagin – Blowing from Guns in British India
Jan Voerman – Days of Mourning

Births

February 5 – Vlastislav Hofman, Czech painter and architect (died 1964)
February 12 – Max Beckmann, German painter (died 1950)
May 11 – Stanley Anderson, English engraver (died 1966)
June 19 – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French writer and artist (died 1974)
June 25 – Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German-born French art dealer (died 1979)
June 30 – Jovan Bijelić, Serbian painter (died 1964).
July 7 – André Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter and graphic artist (died 1974)
July 12 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian-born painter and sculptor (died 1920)
September 1 – Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian painter (died 1961)
October 6 – MacDonald Gill, English designer (died 1947)
December 15 – Eugeniusz Zak, Belarusian-born painter (died 1926)
December 17 – Waldo Peirce, American painter (died 1970)

Deaths

January 9 – Vito D'Ancona, Italian painter (born 1825)
January 28 – Alexander Louis Leloir, French painter (born 1843)
June 13 – Anton Zwengauer, German painter (born 1810)
June 19 – Adrian Ludwig Richter, German painter and etcher (born 1803)
October 1 – Theodor Martens, German painter (born 1822)
October 3 – Hans Makart, Austrian painter and designer (born 1840)
October 22 – Treffle Berthlaume, Québécois sculptor (born 1803)
date unknown
- Stanisław Chlebowski, Polish painter, especially of oriental themes (born 1835)
- Adèle Kindt, Belgian painter (born 1804)
- Lina von Perbandt, German landscape painter (born 1836)

References

^ State, Paul F. (2004). Historical dictionary of Brussels. Scarecrow Press. p. 409. ISBN 978-0-8108-5075-0. Retrieved 2009-12-22.
^ Giedion, Sigfried (2007). Raum, Zeit, Architektur: Die Entstehung einer neuen Tradition (in German). Springer. p. 536. ISBN 978-3-7643-5407-7. Retrieved 2009-12-22.
^ Rewald, John (1973). "Theo van Gogh, Goupil, and the Impressionists". Gazette des Beaux-Arts: 1–107.

[1] State, Paul F. (2004). Historical dictionary of Brussels. Scarecrow Press. p. 409. ISBN 978-0-8108-5075-0. Retrieved 2009-12-22.

[2] Giedion, Sigfried (2007). Raum, Zeit, Architektur: Die Entstehung einer neuen Tradition (in German). Springer. p. 536. ISBN 978-3-7643-5407-7. Retrieved 2009-12-22.

[3] Rewald, John (1973). "Theo van Gogh, Goupil, and the Impressionists". Gazette des Beaux-Arts: 1–107.

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