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1747 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1747, art Events from the year 1747 in art. Events * August – Jean-Bernard, abbé Le Blanc, writes an influential letter on the subject of the Paris Salon. * Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo joins the Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. Later in the year he marries Marie-Marguerite Lebrun. Works * Francis Bindon – Portrait of Richard Baldwin, Provost of Trinity College, Dublin * Canaletto – London seen through an arch of Westminster Bridge' (c. 1746–47) * Thomas Gainsborough – ''Wooded Landscape with a Peasant Resting'' (Tate Britain) * Matthäus Günther – Frescos in Amorbach Abbey (1742–47) * Charles-Joseph Natoire ** Portrait of Louis, Dauphin of France ** ''Saint Stephen and the False Witnesses'' (for Abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés) ** ''Triumph of Bacchus'' (Musée du Louvre) * Gervase Spencer – Portrait miniatures Awards * Births * January 4 – Dominique Vivant, French artist, writer, diplomat, author and archaeologist (d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Bernard, Abbé Le Blanc
Jean-Bernard, abbé Le Blanc (1707–1781, Paris) was a French art critic, one of the Parisian ''literati'', who through his patron Mme de Pompadour was appointed historiographer of the Bâtiments du Roi, the defender of state expenditures and official French policy in the arts, and was also an advocate before the Parlement de Paris. Le Blanc was born in Dijon. His minor orders were strictly ''pro forma'', and he made his reputation with the ''Lettres d'un François'' (1745), of which he made an English translation. He had been invited to England by a nobleman in 1737 and remained for a year and a half, passing easily at every level of society, and expressing his observations in ninety-two letters that concerned the English almost entirely, and concentrated on social observation, with a minority of letters on politics and literature, worked up from the notebooks he carried with him everywhere and filled with his jottings on the spot. The results were widely read and approved as the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 4
Events Pre-1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar fights Titus Labienus in the Battle of Ruspina. * 871 – Battle of Reading: Æthelred of Wessex and his brother Alfred are defeated by a Danish invasion army. 1601–1900 *1649 – English Civil War: The Rump Parliament votes to put Charles I on trial. *1717 – The Netherlands, Great Britain, and France sign the Triple Alliance. * 1762 – Great Britain declares war on Spain, which meant the entry of Spain into the Seven Years' War. *1798 – Constantine Hangerli arrives in Bucharest, Wallachia, as its new Prince, invested by the Ottoman Empire. *1853 – After having been kidnapped and sold into slavery in the American South, Solomon Northup regains his freedom; his memoir ''Twelve Years a Slave'' later becomes a national bestseller. *1854 – The McDonald Islands are discovered by Captain William McDonald aboard the ''Samarang''. *1863 – The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1810 In Art
Events in the year 1810 in Art. Events * Four members of the Vienna ''Lukasbund'' (Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Franz Pforr, Ludwig Vogel and Johann Konrad Hottinger) move to Rome where they occupy the abandoned monastery of San Isidoro and join with others to form the Nazarene movement. * Dominique Vivant Denon assists the Hermitage Museum in the acquisition of Rosso Fiorentino's ''Madonna and Child with Cherubs'' in Paris. Works *William Blake – '' A Vision of the Last Judgment'' (lost) *Jacques-Louis David – '' The Distribution of the Eagle Standards'' *Louis Ducis – Portrait of Napoléon Bonaparte with his Nephews and Nieces on the Terrace at Saint-Cloud' *Caspar David Friedrich – '' The Abbey in the Oakwood'' *François Gérard **''The Battle of Austerlitz'' **''Portrait of Portrait of Camillo Borghrse'' **'' Portrait of Désirée Clary'' *Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – '' The Revolt in Cairo, 21 October 1798'' *Francisco Goya – ''The Disasters of War'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Ellis (engraver)
William Ellis (1747–1810) was an English engraver and oil painter. Life Ellis was born in London in 1747, the son of a writing engraver. He was placed as a pupil with William Woollett. He produced some fine plates in the style of his teacher, some being executed in conjunction with him, including the two portraits of Rubens and his wife, published in 1774; ''A River Scene with a Windmill'', after Salomon Ruysdael, published in 1777; ''Solitude'', after Richard Wilson, published in 1778; and two scenes from the ''Vicar of Wakefield'', after Thomas Hearne, published in 1780, and exhibited at the Society of Artists in that year. SBN 901571 13 X - reference is for date an venue of exhibition only Ellis engraved several topographical views after Paul Sandby and Thomas Hearne, a set of ''The Seasons'' after Hearne, and some plates for the ''Ladies' Magazine''. In 1800 he aquatinted a set of engravings of ''Views of the Memorable Victory of the Nile'' engraved by Francis Chesham f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1829 In Art
Events in the year 1829 in Art. Events *November – Thomas Hornor's ''Panoramic view of London'', the largest panoramic painting ever created, is completed in the London Colosseum, purpose-designed by Decimus Burton in Regent's Park. *December – The final issue of ''The Yankee'' magazine by art critic John Neal is published. *Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin and his brother Jean Paul Flandrin set out to walk to Paris from Lyons, in order to become pupils of Louis Hersent. Works Paintings *John Constable – ''Hadleigh Castle'' *William Etty – ''Benaiah'' *Christen Købke – ''View of Århus Cathedral'' *Cornelis Kruseman – '' Portrait of Johannes van den Bosch'' *Edwin Henry Landseer – '' An Illicit Whisky Still in the Highlands'' *Bernardo López Piquer – ''Maria Isabel of Braganza'' *J. M. W. Turner – '' Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus'' *David Wilkie – '' George IV in Highland dress'' Sculpture *Francis Chantrey – Bust of John Soane * John Hogan – ''The Dead Chris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porcelain Painter
China painting, or porcelain painting, is the decoration of glazed porcelain objects such as plates, bowls, vases or statues. The body of the object may be hard-paste porcelain, developed in China in the 7th or 8th century, or soft-paste porcelain (often bone china), developed in 18th-century Europe. The broader term ceramic painting includes painted decoration on lead-glazed earthenware such as creamware or tin-glazed pottery such as maiolica or faience. Typically the body is first fired in a kiln to convert it into a hard porous Biscuit (pottery), biscuit or bisque. Underglaze decoration may then be applied, followed by glaze, which is fired so it bonds to the body. The glazed porcelain may then be painted with overglaze decoration and fired again to bond the paint with the glaze. Most pieces use only one of underglaze or overglaze painting, the latter often being referred to as "enamelled". Decorations may be applied by brush or by stenciling, transfer printing, lithography a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis Gerverot
Louis Victor Gerverot (8 December 1747 – 6 January 1829) was a French porcelain painter and businessman. Life Early life Gerverot was born in Lunéville. His father was a "musicus" (singer) at the court of Stanisław Leszczyński, former king of Poland, who became in 1737 the duke of Lotharingen. His mother, Barbe Oubert, sent him to the porcelain factory in Sèvres in 1764, to learn his trade. Possibly he had himself already asked to specialize in the painting of porcelain with flowers and (fantastical) birds. Gerverot became extremely able in the preparation of colour, clay mixtures, and (since his stay in Niderviller) in other trade secrets. His urge to travel and to turn his knowledge into money (or his inability to stay in any one place for long) resulted in his short periods in various porcelain factories. In succession, he was active in Ludwigsburg, Ansbach, Höchst, Fürstenberg and Frankenthal. Weesp and Loosdrecht In 1767, Gerverot won a large sum in the city lottery ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
December 8
Events Pre-1600 * 395 – Later Yan is defeated by its former vassal Northern Wei at the Battle of Canhe Slope. *757 – The poet Du Fu returns to Chang'an as a member of Emperor Xuanzong's court, after having escaped the city during the An Lushan Rebellion. * 877 – Louis the Stammerer (son of Charles the Bald) is crowned king of the West Frankish Kingdom at Compiègne. *1504 – Ahmad ibn Abi Jum'ah writes his Oran fatwa, arguing for the relaxation of Islamic law requirements for the forcibly converted Muslims in Spain. 1601–1900 * 1660 – A woman (either Margaret Hughes or Anne Marshall) appears on an English public stage for the first time, in the role of Desdemona in a production of Shakespeare's play ''Othello''. * 1851 – Conservative Santiago-based government troops defeat rebels at the Battle of Loncomilla, signaling the end of the 1851 Chilean Revolution. *1854 – In his Apostolic constitution ''Ineffabilis Deus'', Pope Pius IX ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1822 In Art
Events in the year 1822 in Art. Events *Nicéphore Niépce creates the first permanent photograph through his heliographic process. *The Mauritshuis in The Hague opens to the public as a state art museum. *Henry Raeburn is knighted and appointed royal limner. Works *Lorenzo Bartolini – The Campbell Sisters dancing a Waltz' (marble) *Eugène Delacroix – ''The Barque of Dante'' (first major work) * John Doyle – ''The Life of a Racehorse'' (prints) *William Etty – ''Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm'' (first version) *Caspar David Friedrich **''The Lonely Tree'' **''Moonrise by the Sea'' **''The Tree of Crows'' *Théodore Géricault – portraits of insane inmates of the Salpêtrière Hospital in Paris made for the psychiatrist Étienne-Jean Georget. **''Insane Woman'' **''Portrait of a Kleptomaniac'' *Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin – ''Anchises and Venus'' *Louis Hersent – ''Ruth'' *Orest Kiprensky – '' Portrait of Ekaterina Avdulina'' *Jérôme-Martin Lang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Friedrich Justin Bertuch
Friedrich Johann Justin Bertuch (30 September 1747 – 3 April 1822) was a German publisher and patron of the arts. He co-founded the Weimar Princely Free Drawing School with the painter Georg Melchior Kraus in 1776. He was the father of the writer and journalist . Life Early life Bertuch came from a family attested in the Tennstedt area of Thuringia since the 15th century. When Friedrich Johann Justin Bertuch was 5, his father became garrison doctor in the service of duke Ernst August Konstantin at Blutsturz. He lost his mother aged 15 and grew up in the house of his uncle Gottfried Matthias Ludwig Schrön (a member of the Weimarer Rat der Landschaftskasse). He attended the Weimar Gymnasium, studied from 1765 to 1769 theology then law at the Landesuniversität in Jena. His main interest, however, was for literature and natural history. His acquaintance with Freiherr allowed the 22-year-old Bertuch to break off his studies without taking his final exams, and that same year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
September 30
Events Pre-1600 * 489 – The Ostrogoths under Theoderic the Great defeat the forces of Odoacer for the second time. * 737 – The Turgesh drive back an Umayyad invasion of Khuttal, follow them south of the Oxus, and capture their baggage train. * 1139 – A magnitude 7.7 earthquake strikes the Caucasus mountains in the Seljuk Empire, causing mass destruction and killing up to 300,000 people. *1399 – Henry IV is proclaimed king of England. *1520 – Suleiman the Magnificent is proclaimed sultan of the Ottoman Empire. *1541 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto and his forces enter Tula territory in present-day western Arkansas, encountering fierce resistance. *1551 – A coup by the military establishment of Japan's Ōuchi clan forces their lord to commit suicide, and their city is burned. 1601–1900 * 1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: France and Spain defeat Sardinia at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo, but soon have to withdra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Peter Melchior
Johann Peter Melchior (8 March 1747 – 13 June 1825) was a German porcelain modeller. Melchior was born in Lintorf. He was interested in art from an early age and was apprenticed to a sculptor in Düsseldorf. He made a name for himself in the porcelain trade and was named ''Modellmeister'' at the acclaimed Höchst porcelain factory in 1767, a post he held until 1779. He later worked at the factories at Frankenthal (1779–93) and Nymphenburg (1797–1822). He died in Nymphenburg. Melchior was a transitional figure between Rococo and Neoclassicism Neoclassicism (also spelled Neo-classicism) was a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassicism was .... His early work was graceful and often sentimental, and his favourite subjects included religious groups, pastoral scenes, characters from mythology, and children. As his ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
