|
1743 In Art
Events from the year 1743 in art. Events Works * Canaletto paints ''Rome: View of the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine'', ''The Molo, Looking West'', ''The Piazzetta, Looking North'' and ''Capriccio: The Horses of S. Marco in the Piazzetta'' (now in British Royal Collection) * Antonio Corradini sculpts '' The Vestal Virgin Tuccia'' * Arthur Devis probably paints '' Mr and Mrs Atherton'' * William Hogarth begins painting his '' Marriage à-la-mode'' series * Andrea Soldi paints a ''Self-portrait'' * Louis-Michel van Loo completes '' The Family of Philip V'' Births * January 3 – Joseph-Benoît Suvée, Flemish painter (died 1807) * March 5 – Jean-Simon Berthélemy, French history painter (died 1811) * March 9 – Johann Kaspar Füssli, Swiss painter (died 1786) * May 2 – William Parry, Welsh portrait painter (died 1791) * July 24 – Giocondo Albertolli, Swiss-born architect, painter, and sculptor who was active in Italy (d. 1839) * September 11 – Nikolaj Abraham Abi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canaletto
Giovanni Antonio Canal (18 October 1697 – 19 April 1768), commonly known as Canaletto (), was an Italian painter from the Republic of Venice, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school. Painter of city views or ''vedute'', of Venice, Rome, and London, he also painted imaginary views (referred to as capricci), although the demarcation in his works between the real and the imaginary is never quite clearcut.Alice Binion and Lin Barton. "Canaletto." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 6 Jan. 2017 He was further an important printmaker using the etching technique. In the period from 1746 to 1756 he worked in England where he painted many views of London and other sites including Warwick Castle and Alnwick Castle. He was highly successful in England, thanks to the British merchant and connoisseur Joseph "Consul" Smith, whose large collection of Canaletto's works was sold to King George III in 1762. Early career He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1811 In Art
Events in the year 1811 in Art. Works *Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – '' Jupiter and Thetis'' *Georg Friedrich Kersting – ''Caspar David Friedrich in His Studio'' *Thomas Lawrence – Portrait of Benjamin West *Bertel Thorvaldsen – ''Procession of Alexander the Great'' Births *January 2 – Uroš Knežević, Serbian painter (d. 1876) *March 20 – George Caleb Bingham, American realist artist (died 1879) *April 5 – Jules Dupré, French painter (died 1889) *May 11 – Prince Grigory Gagarin, Russian soldier and painter (died 1893) *May 15 – Katarina Ivanović, Serbian painter (died 1882) *July 28 – Charles West Cope, English genre painter (died 1890) *December 3 – Eduard Bendemann, German painter (died 1889) *Undated ** Nam Gyewoo, Korean painter and government officer (died 1888) ** Jakob Guttmann, Romanian-born Hungarian Jewish sculptor (died 1860) **Auguste Ottin, French sculptor (died 1890) ** Pierre Étienne Rémillieux, French painter (died 1856) Deaths *Ja ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Jean Desprez
Louis Jean Desprez (occasionally but incorrectly ''Jean Louis Desprez'') (May 1743–18 March 1804) was a French painter and architect who worked in Sweden during the last twenty years of his life. Biography Desprez, who was born in Auxerre in Bourgogne, France. He studied architecture and was awarded the Great Prize of the Académie royale d'architecture in 1770. He traveled frequently to Italy and was associated with Piranesi in Rome. He came to the attention of King Gustav III of Sweden, who offered him a two-year contract as director of scenic decorations at the new Stockholm Opera founded by the King two years earlier. His first task there was the decorations for the new opera ''Gustaf Wasa'' (with a libretto authored by the King in collaboration with Johan Henric Kellgren and music by Johann Gottlieb Naumann). As an architect, Desprez designed in a monumental, neoclassical style influenced by his study of Greek and Roman ruins in the south of Italy and in Sicily. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1809 In Art
Events in the year 1809 in Art. Events * Six students of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna form an artistic cooperative called the Brotherhood of St. Luke (''Lukasbund''), predecessor of the Nazarene movement. Works *Pietro Benvenuti – ''Elisa Bonaparte surrounded by the artists of Florence'' *John Constable – ''Malvern Hall'' *John Singleton Copley – '' George, Prince of Wales, on horseback'' *Jacques-Louis David – '' Sappho and Phaon'' *Caspar David Friedrich – ''Mönch am Meer'' * Thomas Douglas Guest **''The Transfiguration'' **''Venus recumbent and Cupids'' *Orest Kiprensky **'' Portrait of Countess Ye. P. Rostopchina'' **'' Portrait of Yevgraf Davydov'' *Charles Willson Peale – ''The Peale Family'' *Henry Raeburn – ''Mrs Spiers'' *Richard Westmacott – Statue of Horatio Nelson, Birmingham Births *February 15 – Owen Jones, British architect, interior designer, and pioneer of chromolithography (died 1874) *March 1 – Robert Cornelius, American pioneer of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard
Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard (11 September 1743 – 4 June 1809) was a Danish neoclassical and royal history painter, sculptor, architect, and professor of painting, mythology, and anatomy at the New Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen, Denmark. Many of his works were in the royal Christiansborg Palace (some destroyed by fire 1794), Fredensborg Palace, and Levetzau Palace at Amalienborg. Biography Nicolai Abraham Abildgaard was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, as the son of Anne Margrethe (née Bastholm) and Søren Abildgaard, a noted antiquarian draughtsman. Abildgaard was trained by a painting master before he joined the Royal Danish Academy of Art (''Det Kongelige Danske Kunstakademi'') in Copenhagen, where he studied under the guidance of Johan Edvard Mandelberg and Johannes Wiedewelt. He won a series of medallions at the Academy for his brilliance from 1764 to 1767. The Large Gold Medallion from the Academy won in 1767 included a travel stipend, which he waited f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
September 11
Events Pre-1600 * 9 – The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends: The Roman Empire suffers the greatest defeat of its history and the Rhine is established as the border between the Empire and the so-called barbarians for the next four hundred years. *1185 – Isaac II Angelos kills Stephen Hagiochristophorites and then appeals to the people, resulting in the revolt that deposes Andronikos I Komnenos and places Isaac on the throne of the Byzantine Empire. * 1297 – Battle of Stirling Bridge: Scots jointly led by William Wallace and Andrew Moray defeat the English. *1390 – Lithuanian Civil War (1389–92): The Teutonic Knights begin a five-week siege of Vilnius. * 1541 – Santiago, Chile, is attacked by indigenous warriors, led by Michimalonco, to free eight indigenous chiefs held captive by the Spaniards. *1565 – Ottoman forces retreat from Malta ending the Great Siege of Malta. 1601–1900 *1609 – Henry Hudson arrives on Manhattan Island an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1839 In Art
Events from the year 1839 in art. Events * January 9 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process. * January 25 – H. Fox Talbot shows his "photogenic drawings" at the Royal Institution in London. * c. October – Robert Cornelius takes a daguerreotype self-portrait, the earliest known existing photographic portrait of a human in America. * Honoré de Balzac's novel '' Pierre Grassou'' concerns an artist who lives off forgeries. Works * John Bell – ''Babes in the Wood'' (sculpture) * Sara Anne Bright – ''The Leaf'' (photogenic drawing) * Francesco Hayez – '' Reclining Odalisque'' *George Hayter – '' The Coronation of Queen Victoria'' * Edwin Landseer – Dignity and Impudence' * Carl Spitzweg – ''The Poor Poet'' * J. M. W. Turner ** Ancient Rome – Agrippina Landing with the Ashes of Germanicus' ** '' Modern Rome – Campo Vaccino'' ** ''Cicero at his Villa'' ** ''The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last Berth to be b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giocondo Albertolli
Giocondo Albertolli (24 July 1743 – 15 November 1839) was a Swiss-born architect, painter, and sculptor who was active in Italy during the Neoclassical period. Biography Albertolli was born into a family of artists in Bedano, a village 7 km north of the Ticinese capital Lugano. He studied sculpture in Parma, and became known for his ornamental architectural decorations. In 1770, he travelled to Tuscany to work with his brother Grato on the stucco decoration of the Villa del Poggio Imperiale. He then visited Rome and Naples, where he briefly worked with Carlo Vanvitelli. In 1774, he returned to his family in Bedano; soon he met up with Giuseppe Piermarini for whom he collaborated in future stucco decoration of palaces in Milan. From 1775-1779, Piermarini built the Royal Villa at Monza, where Albertolli provided the stucco decoration. Albertolli also worked in the Palazzo Melzi d'Eril in Milan and designed (1808-1815) the famed lakeside Villa Melzi d'Eril in Bellagio. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
July 24
Events Pre-1600 * 1132 – Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. * 1148 – Louis VII of France lays siege to Damascus during the Second Crusade. * 1304 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle: King Edward I of England takes the stronghold using the War Wolf. *1411 – Battle of Harlaw, one of the bloodiest battles in Scotland, takes place. * 1412 – Behnam Hadloyo becomes Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Mardin. * 1487 – Citizens of Leeuwarden, Netherlands, strike against a ban on foreign beer. * 1534 – French explorer Jacques Cartier plants a cross on the Gaspé Peninsula and takes possession of the territory in the name of Francis I of France. * 1567 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is forced to abdicate and be replaced by her one-year-old son James VI. 1601–1900 * 1701 – Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac founds the trading post at Fort Pontchartrain, which later becomes the city of Detroit. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1791 In Art
Events from the year 1791 in art. Events *The Society of Artists of Great Britain is dissolved. Works * James Barry – ''The Thames (or Triumph of Navigation)'' *Henri-Pierre Danloux – '' Baron de Besenval in his Study'' (National Gallery, London) *Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – '' Endymion: Moonlight (The Sleep of Endymion)'' *Anton Graff – ''Friedrich Schiller'' *George Morland **''The Inside of a Stable'' **''The Slave Trade'' *Jean-Laurent Mosnier – Portrait of the Chevalier d'Eon *Henry Raeburn – Portrait of Sir John and Lady Clerk of Penicuik *George Stubbs – Equestrian portrait of The Prince of Wales Births *January 6 – William Bent Berczy, painter and political figure in Upper Canada (died 1873) *February 10 **Francesco Hayez, Italian historical, portrait and political painter (died 1881) **Ōtagaki Rengetsu, Japanese Buddhist nun and poet, skilled potter and painter, and expert calligrapher (died 1875) *February 13 – Sylvester Shchedrin, Russi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Parry (artist)
William Parry (2 May 1743 – 12 February 1791) was a Welsh artist. Primarily a portrait painter, he attracted extensive patronage in Wales due to his connections with Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet. He was the son of John Parry, a blind harpist who held a key position in the household of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet of Wynnstay, Denbighshire, the wealthiest and most powerful Welshman of the time. At the age of sixteen he enrolled at William Shipley's drawing academy, later becoming a pupil to Joshua Reynolds. In late 1769 or early 1770 he returned to Wales, where the Wynnstay estate had lately been inherited by the third baronet's son, an art lover who had just returned from his Grand Tour. He also received commissions for chalk and painted portraits from others in the Welsh gentry. Sir Watkin funded Parry's own Grand Tour in 1770–5, during which he produced full-scale copies of paintings by Raphael and Correggio. In 1776 he was elected an Associate of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 2
Events Pre-1600 * 1194 – King Richard I of England gives Portsmouth its first Royal Charter. * 1230 – William de Braose is hanged by Prince Llywelyn the Great. * 1536 – Anne Boleyn, Queen of England, is arrested and imprisoned on charges of adultery, incest, treason and witchcraft. *1559 – John Knox returns from exile to Scotland to become the leader of the nascent Scottish Reformation. *1568 – Mary, Queen of Scots, escapes from Loch Leven Castle. 1601–1900 *1611 – The King James Version of the Bible is published for the first time in London, England, by printer Robert Barker. * 1625 – Afonso Mendes, appointed by Pope Gregory XV as Latin Patriarch of Ethiopia, arrives at Beilul from Goa. * 1670 – King Charles II of England grants a permanent charter to the Hudson's Bay Company to open up the fur trade in North America. * 1808 – Outbreak of the Peninsular War: The people of Madrid rise up in rebellion against French occ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
