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1760 In Art
Events from the year 1760 in art. Events *Autumn – Johann Zoffany moves to London. * Galleria nazionale di Parma established. Paintings *Thomas Gainsborough **''Anne Ford'' **''The Artist`s Daughters, Molly and Peggy'' **''Sunset'' *Tilly Kettle – Self-portrait, his first surviving painting *Joshua Reynolds **'' Laurence Sterne'' **Portrait of Mrs Day Births *January 10 – Guillaume Guillon-Lethière, French neoclassical painter (died 1832) *January 20 – Ferdinand Bauer, Austrian botanical illustrator (died 1826) *March 2 – Christina Charlotta Cederström, Swedish artist, poet, and baroness (died 1832) *March 4 – William Payne, English painter, inventor of Payne's grey (died 1830) * March 6 – Dora Stock, portrait painter (died 1832) * March 16 – Johann Heinrich Meyer, Swiss painter and art writer (died 1832) *April 13 – Thomas Lawrence, English portrait painter (died 1830) * May 31 – George Garrard, English artist (died 1826) * June 11 - Maria Cosway, I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Zoffany
Johan Joseph Zoffany (born Johannes Josephus Zaufallij; 13 March 1733 – 11 November 1810) was a German neoclassical painter who was active mainly in England, Italy and India. His works appear in many prominent British collections, including the National Gallery, the Tate Gallery and the Royal Collection, as well as institutions in continental Europe, India, the United States and Australia. His name is sometimes spelled Zoffani or Zauffelij (on his grave, it is spelled Zoffanij). Life and career Of noble Hungarian and Bohemian origin, Johan Zoffany was born near Frankfurt on 13 March 1733, the son of a cabinet maker and architect in the court of Alexander Ferdinand, 3rd Prince of Thurn and Taxis. He undertook an initial period of study in a sculptor's workshop in Ellwangen during the 1740s, possibly the shop of Melchior Paulus, and later at Regensburg with the artist . In 1750, he travelled to Rome, entering the studio of Agostino Masucci. In the autumn of 1760, he arrived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1826 In Art
Events in the year 1826 in Art. Events * December 25 – Opening of the Military Gallery of the Winter Palace, containing 332 portraits of generals who took part in the Patriotic War of 1812, painted by George Dawe and his Russian assistants Alexander Polyakov and Wilhelm August Golicke. * Samuel Palmer moves to Shoreham, Kent, where he stays for the next decade. Works * Thomas Cole – ''Sunrise in the Catskill Mountains'' * John Constable – '' The Cornfield'' * Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – '' The Bridge at Narni'' * Eugène Delacroix – **'' The Execution of the Doge Marino Faliero'' (completed) **''Greece on the Ruins of Missolonghi'' * William Etty – The Judgement of Paris' * Francesco Hayez - '' Lampugnani's Conspiracy'' * Orest Kiprensky ** '' Portrait of Prince N. P. Trubetzkoy'' ** '' Portrait of O. A. Ryumina'' * Nicéphore Niépce – ''View from the Window at Le Gras'', the first permanent photograph of a natural subject * James Northcote – '':File:Ira Ald ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English People
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language in England, English language, a West Germanic languages, West Germanic language, and share a common history and culture. The English identity is of History of Anglo-Saxon England, Anglo-Saxon origin, when they were known in Old English as the ('race or tribe of the Angles'). Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Great Britain around the 5th century AD. The English largely descend from two main historical population groups the West Germanic tribes (the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians) who settled in southern Britain following the withdrawal of the Ancient Rome, Romans, and the Romano-British culture, partially Romanised Celtic Britons already living there.Martiniano, R., Caffell, A., Holst, M. et al. Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons. Nat Commun 7, 10326 (2016). https://doi.org/10 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Lawrence (painter)
Sir Thomas Lawrence (13 April 1769 – 7 January 1830) was an English portrait painter and the fourth president of the Royal Academy. A child prodigy, he was born in Bristol and began drawing in Devizes, where his father was an innkeeper at the Bear Hotel in the Market Square. At age ten, having moved to Bath, he was supporting his family with his pastel portraits. At 18 he went to London and soon established his reputation as a portrait painter in oils, receiving his first royal commission, a portrait of Queen Charlotte, in 1790. He stayed at the top of his profession until his death, aged 60, in 1830. Self-taught, he was a brilliant draughtsman and known for his gift of capturing a likeness, as well as his virtuoso handling of paint. He became an associate of the Royal Academy in 1791, a full member in 1794, and president in 1820. In 1810 he acquired the generous patronage of the Prince Regent, was sent abroad to paint portraits of allied leaders for the Waterloo chamber at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 13
Events Pre-1600 *1111 – Henry V is crowned Holy Roman Emperor. * 1204 – Constantinople falls to the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade, temporarily ending the Byzantine Empire. 1601–1900 *1612 – In one of the epic samurai duels in Japanese history, Miyamoto Musashi defeats Sasaki Kojirō at Funajima island. *1613 – Samuel Argall, having captured Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia, sets off with her to Jamestown with the intention of exchanging her for English prisoners held by her father. *1699 – The Sikh religion is formalised as the Khalsa – the brotherhood of Warrior-Saintsby Guru Gobind Singh in northern India, in accordance with the Nanakshahi calendar. * 1742 – George Frideric Handel's oratorio ''Messiah'' makes its world premiere in Dublin, Ireland. * 1777 – American Revolutionary War: American forces are ambushed and defeated in the Battle of Bound Brook, New Jersey. * 1829 – The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Heinrich Meyer
Johann Heinrich Meyer (16 March 1760 – 11 October 1832) was a Swiss painter, engraver and art critic. He served as the second Director of the Weimar Princely Free Drawing School. A close associate of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, he was often referred to as "Goethemeyer". Biography Meyer was born in Stäfa, near Lake Zürich in Switzerland. His father, Johann Baptist Meyer, was a merchant from Zürich. He took his first drawing lessons at the age of sixteen. Two years later the painter, Johann Caspar Füssli, introduced him to the works of the archaeologist and art critic, Johann Joachim Winckelmann. His ''History of the Art of Antiquity'' was decisive in shaping Meyer's attitudes and approach to art. In 1784, he went to Rome to join the German "colony". Two years later, he met Goethe, who was apparently impressed with Meyer's knowledge. In 1788, he moved to Naples and worked as a drawing teacher. Later, he visited his hometown in Switzerland with Goethe, who gathered material ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March 16
Events Pre-1600 * 934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang. *1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York. * 1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse to recant are burnt to death after the Fall of Montségur. 1601–1900 * 1621 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset." *1660 – The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament. * 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29. * 1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point. *1815 – Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands. * 1872 – The Wanderers F.C. win the first FA Cup, the oldest football co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Stock
Dora (shortened from Doris or Dorothea) Stock (6 March 1760 – 30 March 1832) was a German artist of the 18th and 19th centuries who specialized in portraiture. She was at the center of a highly cultivated household in which a great number of artists, musicians, and writers were guests; and her friends and acquaintances included some of the most eminent figures of her day, namely Goethe, Schiller and Mozart. Life Childhood She was born in Nürnberg to a copper engraver named Johann Michael Stock (1737–1773). Stock had in 1756 married a widow five years his senior—Maria Helen Endner, née Schwabe (1733–1782)—who already had a son, Georg Gustav, by her previous marriage. Dora was the first of two surviving children born to this marriage; two years later her younger sister Anna Maria Jakobina, called Minna (11 March 1762 – 1843), was born. When Dora was five years old, her father took up a position in Leipzig working as an engraver and illustrator for the Breitkopf prin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March 6
Events Pre-1600 * 12 BCE – The Roman emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the emperor. * 632 – The Farewell Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada') of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. * 845 – The 42 Martyrs of Amorium are killed after refusing to convert to Islam. * 961 – Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end of the Emirate of Crete. *1204 – The Siege of Château Gaillard ends in a French victory over King John of England, who loses control of Normandy to King Philip II Augustus. *1323 – Treaty of Paris of 1323 is signed. * 1454 – Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights. * 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam. 1601–1900 * 1665 – The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society, Henr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1830 In Art
Events from the year 1830 in art. Events *David Wilkie appointed Principal Painter in Ordinary to King William IV of the United Kingdom following the death of Sir Thomas Lawrence. *Clarkson Stanfield's panorama A panorama (formed from Greek πᾶν "all" + ὅραμα "view") is any wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting, drawing, photography, film, seismic images, or 3D modeling. The word was originally coined in ... ''The Military Pass of the Simplon'' is featured in a Christmas pantomime in London. *Approximate beginning of the Barbizon school of painters. Publications *Edward Lear – ''Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae, or Parrots'' (first in a series of Lithography, lithographs. Works *George Catlin – ''General William Clark'' *Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – ''Chartres Cathedral'' *Eugène Delacroix – ''Liberty Leading the People'' *William Etty — ''Candaules, King of Lydia, Shews his Wife by Stealth to Gyges, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Payne's Grey
Payne's grey is a dark blue-grey colour used in painting. It can be used as a mixer in place of black. Since it is less intense than black, it is easier to get the right shade when using it as a mixer. Originally a mixture of iron blue (Prussian blue), yellow ochre and crimson lake, Payne's grey now is often a mixture of blue (ultramarine or phthalocyanine) and black or of ultramarine and burnt sienna. The colour is named after William Payne, who painted watercolours in the late 18th century. The first recorded use of ''Payne's grey'' as a colour name in English was in 1835. The source of the colour displayed below is the ''Robert Ridgway color list'', entered onto the Internet from his 1912 book ''Color Standards and Color Nomenclature''. The normalized colour coordinates for Payne's grey are identical to dark electric blue, which was formalized as a color in the ISCC–NBS system in 1955. See also * List of colors These are the lists of colors; * List of colors: A–F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Payne (painter)
William Payne (Exeter 4 March 1760 – August 1830 London) was an English painter and etcher who invented the tint Payne's grey. Life and work Payne hit upon certain methods which considerably increased the resources of watercolour art, especially in the rendering of sunlight and atmosphere. His 'style,' as it was called, was one which was not only new and effective, but could be learnt without much difficulty, and he soon became the most fashionable drawing-master in London. Among the innovations with which he is credited were "splitting the brush to give forms of foliage, dragging the tints to give texture to his foregrounds, and taking out the forms of lights by wetting the surface and rubbing with bread and rag". He also abandoned the use of outline with the pen, but the invention by which he is best known is a neutral tint composed of indigo, raw sienna, and lake called Payne's grey. His methods were regarded as tricky by the old-fashioned practitioners of the day. but ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
