|
1759 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1759, art Events from the year 1759 in art. Events *Thomas Gainsborough and his family move to Bath, England. Works *Giambettino Cignaroli – ''Death of Cato'' *Thomas Gainsborough **''Self-portrait'' **''Thomas Wollaston'' *Joshua Reynolds – Kitty Fisher as Cleopatra Dissolving the Pearl' *John Shackleton – ''George II'' (British Museum, London) Births * January 21 – François Baillairgé, Canadian artist of woodworking, wood-carving, and architecture (died 1830) * February 10 – Carlo Lasinio, Italian engraver (died 1838) * July 10 – Pierre-Joseph Redouté, Belgian flower painter (died 1840) * July 27 – Pierre Charles Baquoy, French painter and engraver especially of famous historical characters (died 1829) * August 15 – Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin, French miniature painter (died 1832) * August 16 – Carl Frederik von Breda, Swedish painter to the Swedish court (died 1818) * December 16 – Charles Guillaume Alexandre Bourgeois, French ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Gainsborough
Thomas Gainsborough (14 May 1727 (baptised) – 2 August 1788) was an English portrait and landscape painter, draughtsman, and printmaker. Along with his rival Sir Joshua Reynolds, he is considered one of the most important British artists of the second half of the 18th century. He painted quickly, and the works of his maturity are characterised by a light palette and easy strokes. Despite being a prolific portrait painter, Gainsborough gained greater satisfaction from his landscapes. He is credited (with Richard Wilson) as the originator of the 18th-century British landscape school. Gainsborough was a founding member of the Royal Academy. Youth and training He was born in Sudbury, Suffolk, the youngest son of John Gainsborough, a weaver and maker of woollen goods, and his wife Mary, the sister of the Reverend Humphry Burroughs. One of Gainsborough's brothers, Humphrey, had a faculty for mechanics and was said to have invented the method of condensing steam in a separate ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
July 10
Events Pre-1600 * 138 – Emperor Hadrian of Rome dies of heart failure at his residence on the bay of Naples, Baiae; he is buried at Rome in the Tomb of Hadrian beside his late wife, Vibia Sabina. * 645 – Isshi Incident: Prince Naka-no-Ōe and Fujiwara no Kamatari assassinate Soga no Iruka during a ''coup d'état'' at the imperial palace. * 988 – The Norse King Glúniairn recognises Máel Sechnaill mac Domnaill, High King of Ireland, and agrees to pay taxes and accept Brehon Law; the event is considered to be the founding of the city of Dublin. *1086 – King Canute IV of Denmark is killed by rebellious peasants. * 1212 – The most severe of several early fires of London burns most of the city to the ground. * 1460 – Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, defeats the king's Lancastrian forces and takes King Henry VI prisoner in the Battle of Northampton. *1499 – The Portuguese explorer Nicolau Coelho returns to Lisbon after di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August 16
Events Pre-1600 * 1 BC – Wang Mang consolidates his power in China and is declared marshal of state. Emperor Ai of Han, who died the previous day, had no heirs. * 942 – Start of the four-day Battle of al-Mada'in, between the Hamdanids of Mosul and the Baridis of Basra over control of the Abbasid capital, Baghdad. * 963 – Nikephoros II Phokas is crowned emperor of the Byzantine Empire. * 1328 – The House of Gonzaga seizes power in the Duchy of Mantua, and will rule until 1708. * 1513 – Battle of the Spurs (Battle of Guinegate): King Henry VIII of England and his Imperial allies defeat French Forces who are then forced to retreat. * 1570 – The Principality of Transylvania is established after John II Zápolya renounces his claim as King of Hungary in the Treaty of Speyer.Diarmaid MacCullochThe Reformation Viking, 2004, p. 443 1601–1900 * 1652 – Battle of Plymouth: Inconclusive naval action between the fleets of Michiel de Ruyter and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1832 In Art
Events from the year 1832 in art. Events * New Society of Painters in Water Colours holds its first exhibition, in London. Awards * Prix de Rome ** for painting – Antoine Wiertz ** for sculpture – François Jouffroy Works * William Etty ** ''The Destroying Angel and Daemons of Evil Interrupting the Orgies of the Vicious and Intemperate'' ** ''Youth on the Prow, and Pleasure at the Helm'' * Hokusai – ''The Great Wave off Kanagawa'' * Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – ''Portrait of Monsieur Bertin'' * Henry Inman - " Pes-Ke-Le-Cha-Co" * James Arthur O'Connor – '' A Thunderstorm: The Frightened Wagoner'' * Joseph Paelinck – ''Juno'' * Richard Westmacott - Statue of George Canning, Parliament Square Births * January 6 – Gustave Doré, French illustrator (died 1883) * January 23 – Édouard Manet, French painter, (died 1883) * January 27 – Arthur Hughes, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (died 1915) * February 21 – Louis Maurer, German American lithographer (died ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miniature (illuminated Manuscript)
A miniature (from the Latin verb ''miniare'', "to colour with ''minium''", a red lead) is a small illustration used to decorate an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript; the simple illustrations of the early codices having been miniated or delineated with that pigment. The generally small scale of such medieval pictures has led to etymological confusion with minuteness and to its application to small paintings, especially portrait miniatures, which did however grow from the same tradition and at least initially used similar techniques. Apart from the Western, Byzantine and Armenian traditions, there is another group of Asian traditions, which is generally more illustrative in nature, and from origins in manuscript book decoration also developed into single-sheet small paintings to be kept in albums, which are also called miniatures, as the Western equivalents in watercolor and other mediums are not. These include Arabic miniatures, and their Persian, Mughal, Ottoman and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin
Jean-Baptiste Jacques Augustin (August 15, 1759 – April 13, 1832) was a French miniature painter. Biography Augustin was born in Saint-Dié-des-Vosges and died in Paris. He might have had some lessons from Jean-Baptiste Claudot and maybe also from Jean Girardet in Nancy. After a few months in Dijon in 1781 he arrived in Paris the same year where he soon earned fame. During the French Revolution days he travelled to Brest (1789) and to Saint-Dié-des-Vosges (1791). In 1800 he married his pupil Pauline Ducruet, 22 years younger than him. He worked for Napoleon and his entourage and, in 1806, received a gold medal in recognition of his skills. In 1814 Louis XVIII appointed him ''peintre ordinaire du Cabinet du roi,'' later ''peintre des Affaires étrangères'', and in 1819 ''peintre en miniature de la Chambre et du Cabinet du roi.'' In 1821 he was awarded the ''Légion d’honneur''. In 1791 he exhibited at the ''Exposition de la Jeunesse'', and from then until 1831 he also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August 15
Events Pre-1600 * 636 – Arab–Byzantine wars: The Battle of Yarmouk between the Byzantine Empire and the Rashidun Caliphate begins. * 717 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Maslama ibn Abd al-Malik begins the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople, which will last for nearly a year. * 718 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Raising of the Second Arab Siege of Constantinople. * 747 – Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, renounces his position as ''majordomo'' and retires to a monastery near Rome. His brother, Pepin the Short, becomes the sole ruler (''de facto'') of the Frankish Kingdom. * 778 – The Battle of Roncevaux Pass takes place between the army of Charlemagne and a Basque army. * 805 – Noble Erchana of Dahauua grants the Bavarian town of Dachau to the Diocese of Freising * 927 – The Saracens conquer and destroy Taranto. * 982 – Holy Roman Emperor Otto II is defeated by the Saracens in the Battle of Capo Colonna, in Calabria. *1018 &nda ... [...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] |
French People
The French people (french: Français) are an ethnic group and nation primarily located in Western Europe that share a common French culture, history, and language, identified with the country of France. The French people, especially the native speakers of langues d'oïl from northern and central France, are primarily the descendants of Gauls (including the Belgae) and Romans (or Gallo-Romans, western European Celtic and Italic peoples), as well as Germanic peoples such as the Franks, the Visigoths, the Suebi and the Burgundians who settled in Gaul from east of the Rhine after the fall of the Roman Empire, as well as various later waves of lower-level irregular migration that have continued to the present day. The Norse also settled in Normandy in the 10th century and contributed significantly to the ancestry of the Normans. Furthermore, regional ethnic minorities also exist within France that have distinct lineages, languages and cultures such as Bretons in Brittany, Occi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Charles Baquoy
Pierre Charles Baquoy (27 July 1759 – 4 February 1829) was a French painter and engraver, known for depictions of famous historical characters. Baquoy was born and died in Paris. In his time he was considered an eminent artist-engraver and among other things was a professor of drawing and an employee of the Musee Royal. He was the illustrator of the Kehl edition of Voltaire and also produced some of the engravings for the 1788-1793 Complete Works of Rousseau (''Émile'' and ''Theátre et Poesies'') He was also one of the painters depicting contemporary society in Paris for early fashion magazines such as the Journal des Dames et des ModesHeather Belnap Jensen, ''The Journal des Dames et des Modes: Fashioning Women in the Arts, c. 1800-1815'' http://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/spring_06/articles/jens_print.html and " La Mesangere" (published between 1797 and 1839). His drawings of this kind, like those of others such as the La Mesangere editor Pierre Antoine Leboux ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
July 27
Events Pre-1600 * 1054 – Siward, Earl of Northumbria, invades Scotland and defeats Macbeth, King of Scotland, somewhere north of the Firth of Forth. * 1189 – Friedrich Barbarossa arrives at Niš, the capital of Serbian King Stefan Nemanja, during the Third Crusade. *1202 – Georgian–Seljuk wars: At the Battle of Basian the Kingdom of Georgia defeats the Sultanate of Rum. *1214 – Battle of Bouvines: Philip II of France decisively defeats Imperial, English and Flemish armies, effectively ending John of England's Angevin Empire. *1299 – According to Edward Gibbon, Osman I invades the territory of Nicomedia for the first time, usually considered to be the founding day of the Ottoman state. * 1302 – Battle of Bapheus: Decisive Ottoman victory over the Byzantines opening up Bithynia for Turkish conquest. * 1549 – The Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reaches Japan. 1601–1900 * 1663 – The English Parliament passes the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
.jpg "Click for more on -> Thomas Gainsborough")
