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1726 In Art
Events from the year 1726 in art. Events * A silver statue of the Annunciation is sculpted in Augsburg for Mariánská Týnice, on the order of Abbot Eugen Tittl; it was later melted down for coins, along with the rest of the church's treasures. Paintings * Elias Gottlob Haussmann – ''Gottfried Reiche'' * Sebastiano Ricci ** ''Moses make water gush from the rock'' ** ''Susanna in front of Daniel'' * Johann Heinrich Tischbein – ''Portrait of the Artist's first Wife, Marie Sophie Robert'' Births * February 7 – Margaret Fownes-Luttrell, English painter (died 1766) * March 24 – Johanna Marie Fosie, Danish painter and first professional native female artist in Denmark (died 1764) * April 18 (baptised) – François-Thomas Germain, French silversmith (died 1791) * May 20 – Francis Cotes, English painter (died 1770) * August 24 - Peter Cramer, Danish book illustrator, decorative and theatrical painter (died 1782) * October 15 – Françoise Duparc, Spanish born Baroque pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augsburg
Augsburg (; bar , Augschburg , links=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swabian_German , label=Swabian German, , ) is a city in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, around west of Bavarian capital Munich. It is a university town and regional seat of the ''Regierungsbezirk'' Schwaben with an impressive Altstadt (historical city centre). Augsburg is an urban district and home to the institutions of the Landkreis Augsburg. It is the third-largest city in Bavaria (after Munich and Nuremberg) with a population of 300,000 inhabitants, with 885,000 in its metropolitan area. After Neuss, Trier, Cologne and Xanten, Augsburg is one of Germany's oldest cities, founded in 15 BC by the Romans as Augsburg#Early history, Augusta Vindelicorum, named after the Roman emperor Augustus. It was a Free Imperial City from 1276 to 1803 and the home of the patrician (post-Roman Europe), patrician Fugger and Welser families that dominated European banking in the 16th century. According to Behringer, in the sixteen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1770 In Art
Events from the year 1770 in art. Events * Anne Vallayer-Coster is admitted to the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture at the age of twenty-six. McKinven, Mary Jane. June 2002. ''Stunning Still Lifes by Anne Vallayer-Coster, Foremost 18th-Century Painter in Court of Marie-Antoinette'' National Gallery of Art (June 2002) Works * Thomas Gainsborough – approximate date ** ''The Blue Boy'' ** '' Thomas Linley'' * Sir Joshua Reynolds – '' Colonel Acland and Lord Sydney: The Archers'' * Alexander Roslin ** Portrait of the artist's wife (Marie-Suzanne Giroust) ** Portrait of Prince Frederick Adolf of Sweden * George Stubbs ** A Horse Frightened by a Lion' (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) ** '' A Lion Attacking a Horse'' (Yale University Art Gallery) * Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo – ''The Immaculate Conception with Saint Lawrence and Saint Francis of Paola'' (approximate date) * Benjamin West – ''The Death of General Wolfe'' Births * January 13 – Anatole Devosge, Fren ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Baker (artist)
John Baker (1726–30 April 1771) was an English flowerpainter. Life Baker was mainly employed in the decoration of coach (carriage), coaches. His biographer Edward Edwards (painter), Edward Edwards, in his ''Anecdotes of Painters'' (1808), remarks on the effect of fashion in this area of art, and on Baker's high reputation in it, in his day. On the foundation of the Royal Academy John Baker was elected a member. References *. External links * Profile on the Royal Academy site {{DEFAULTSORT:Baker, John 1726 births 1771 deaths 20th-century English painters English male painters Royal Academicians 20th-century English male artists ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1788 In Art
Events from the year 1788 in art. Events * Étienne Maurice Falconet becomes director of the Académie des beaux-arts. Works * Thomas Barrett – Charlotte Medal * James Barry – '' King Lear Weeping over the Dead Body of Cordelia'' (1786–88) * Jacques-Louis David – ''Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife'' * Marguerite Gérard – '' First Steps'' (approximate date) * Francisco Goya ** '' Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga'' ("Red Boy", 1787–88) ** ''The Meadow of San Isidro'' ** ''St. Francis of Borja Attending a Dying Man'' * Anton Graff – ''Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin'' * Guillaume Guillon-Lethière - ''Brutus Condemning His Sons to Death'' * Sir Joshua Reynolds ** ''The Age of Innocence'' (probable date) ** ''Lord Heathfield'' * Johann Zoffany – '' Colonel Mordaunt's Cock Match'' Births * February 5 – Sarah Goodridge, American painter who specialized in miniatures (died 1853) * February 24 – Johan Christian Dahl, Norwegian landscape painter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Aliamet
Jacques Aliamet (30 November 1726 in Abbeville – 29 May 1788 in Paris) was a French engraver. His brother François-Germain Aliamet was also an engraver. He perfected drypoint and his several surviving works include engravings after Nicolaes Berchem, Philips Wouwerman and Claude Joseph Vernet Claude-Joseph Vernet (14 August 17143 December 1789) was a French painter. His son, Antoine Charles Horace Vernet, was also a painter. Life and work Vernet was born in Avignon. When only fourteen years of age he aided his father, Antoine Vernet .... External links Life and works of Jacques Aliamet 1726 births 1788 deaths 18th-century French engravers People from Abbeville {{France-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
November 30
Events Pre-1600 * 978 – Franco-German war of 978–980: Holy Roman Emperor Otto II lifts the siege of Paris and withdraws. 1601–1900 * 1707 – Queen Anne's War: The second Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British Empire and their Creek allies to capture Pensacola, Spanish Florida. * 1718 – Great Northern War: King Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten in Norway. * 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris: In Paris, representatives from the United States and Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris). * 1786 – The Grand Duchy of Tuscany, under Pietro Leopoldo I, becomes the first modern state to abolish the death penalty (later commemorated as Cities for Life Day). * 1803 – The Balmis Expedition starts in Spain with the aim of vaccinating millions against smallpox in Spanish America and Philippines. * 1803 – In N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1801 In Art
Events in the year 1801 in Art. Events * Works *Fyodor Alekseyev – '' Red Square in Moscow'' *Jean Broc – '' The Death of Hyacinthos'' *Jacques-Louis David – ''Napoleon Crossing the Alps'' (first version) *John Flaxman – Marble memorial to William Jones in chapel of University College, Oxford *François Gérard – '' Portrait of Empress Josephine'' *Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – '' Ossian receiving the Ghosts of the French Heroes (Apothéose des héros français morts pour la patrie pendant la guerre de la liberté)'' (approx. date) *Francisco Goya **''Charles IV of Spain and His Family'' **''Portrait of Manuel Godoy'' *Philip James de Loutherbourg – ''Coalbrookdale by Night'' *Rembrandt Peale – ''Rubens Peale with a Geranium'' *J. M. W. Turner – '' Dutch Boats in a Gale (the Bridgewater Sea Piece)'' *Marie-Denise Villers – ''Young Woman Drawing'' *Richard Westmacott – Marble memorial to John Yorke in parish church of St. Andrew, Wimpole, Englan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Chodowiecki
Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki (16 October 1726 – 7 February 1801) was a German painter and printmaker of Huguenot and Polish ancestry, who is most famous as an etcher. He spent most of his life in Berlin, and became the director of the Berlin Academy of Art. Family He was born in the city of Danzig (Gdańsk) in Poland, and in a letter “in typical Berlin humor” wrote “that he moved to Berlin, Germany, which shows for sure, that he is a 'genuine Pole'.” He kept close to the Huguenot scene, due to his ancestry. According to Chodowiecki himself, his Polish nobleman paternal ancestor Bartłomiej Chodowiecki lived in the 16th century in Greater Poland, though thus is not confirmed by independent records. Gottfried Chodowiecki, Daniel's father, was a tradesman in Danzig and his mother, Henriette Ayrer, of Swiss ancestry, was a Huguenot. Daniel's grandfather Christian was also a Danzig tradesman, who had moved his business there from Toruń. When his father died, both Daniel (age ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 16
Events Pre-1600 * 456 – Ricimer defeats Avitus at Piacenza and becomes master of the Western Roman Empire. * 690 – Empress Wu Zetian ascends to the throne of the Tang dynasty and proclaims herself ruler of the Chinese Empire. * 912 – Abd ar-Rahman III becomes the eighth Emir of Córdoba. * 955 – King Otto I defeats a Slavic revolt in what is now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. * 1311 – The Council of Vienne convenes for the first time. *1384 – Jadwiga is crowned King of Poland, although she is a woman. *1590 – Prince Gesualdo of Venosa murders his wife and her lover. 1601–1900 *1736 – Mathematician William Whiston's predicted comet fails to strike the Earth. *1780 – American Revolutionary War: The British-led Royalton raid is the last Native American raid on New England. * 1780 – The Great Hurricane of 1780 finishes after its sixth day, killing between 20,000 and 24,000 residents of the Lesser Antilles. *1793 – Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1778 In Art
Events from the year 1778 in art. Events * December – The artistic cargo of the British ship ''Westmorland'', seized by the French, is acquired by Spanish interests. * Nicholas Pocock gives up his career as a seaman and devotes himself to painting. Paintings * John Singleton Copley – '' Watson and the Shark'' * Francisco Goya – '' Children With a Cart'' * Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait busts of Rousseau and Voltaire * John Hamilton Mortimer – Sir Arthegal, the Knight of Justice, with Talus, the Iron Man (from Spenser’s ‘Faerie Queene’)' * Sir Joshua Reynolds ** ''Jane, Countess of Harrington'' ** ''Lady Caroline Howard'' ** ''Captain John Hayes St Leger'' * George Romney – '' Jane Gordon, Duchess of Gordon, and Her Son, George Gordon'' * Richard Samuel – '' Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo'' * Gilbert Stuart – ''Self-portrait'' * Benjamin West – ''The Battle of the Boyne'' * Johann Zoffany – ''Tribuna of the Uffizi'' (co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Françoise Duparc
Françoise Duparc (15 October 1726 – 2 October 1778) was a Spanish born Baroque painter who later lived in France. Life Françoise Duparc was born in Murcia, where her father Antoine Duparc, a French sculptor from Marseille, had settled and married a local Spanish woman. The family returned to Marseille in 1730, and Françoise was introduced to painting by her father and served her apprenticeship in the studio of Jean-Baptiste van Loo in Aix-en-Provence from 1742 to 1745. It is quite difficult to follow Duparc's course as she worked in different European cities: Paris and London, where she participated in two exhibitions in 1763 and 1766, and Wrocław where she spent time with one of her sisters Claire. She returned to Marseille in 1771 where she joined the Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1776. She died shortly after 2 October 1778. Her estate inventory reported forty-one paintings that have not been found with the exception of the four paintings bequeathed by the art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
October 15
Events Pre-1600 *1066 – Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueror two months later. * 1211 – Battle of the Rhyndacus: The Latin emperor Henry of Flanders defeats the Nicaean emperor Theodore I Laskaris. * 1529 – The Siege of Vienna ends when Austria routs the invading Ottoman forces, ending its European expansion. * 1582 – Adoption of the Gregorian calendar begins, eventually leading to near-universal adoption. 1601–1900 * 1783 – The Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon makes the first human ascent, piloted by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier. * 1793 – Queen Marie Antoinette of France is tried and convicted of treason. *1815 – Napoleon begins his exile on Saint Helena in the South Atlantic Ocean. * 1863 – American Civil War: The ''H. L. Hunley'', the first submarine to sink a ship ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
