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1781 In Art
Events from the year 1781 in art. Events * August 27 – Danish artists Marie Jeanne Crevoisier and Johan Frederik Clemens are married. Works * George Barret, Sr. – '' View of Windermere Lake, Early Morning'' * Jacques-Louis David – ''Belisarius begging for alms'' * Philip James de Loutherbourg – ''Eidophusikon'' * Henry Fuseli – ''The Nightmare'' * Thomas Gainsborough – Mrs Robinson as Perdita' * Anton Graff – '' Frederick the Great, King of Prussia'' * Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait busts of Voltaire and Molière * Sir Joshua Reynolds ** Emily Potts as Thaïs' (Waddesdon Manor, Buckinghamshire) ** ''George, 2nd Earl Harcourt, his wife Elizabeth and his brother William'' (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford) * George Romney ** ''Ann Bowes'' ** ''The Charteris Children'' * Joseph Wright of Derby – ''Sir Brooke Boothby'' Births * March (probable) – John Burnet, Scottish engraver and painter (died 1868) * March 13 – Karl Friedrich Schinkel, Prussian architect and pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August 27
Events Pre-1600 * 410 – The sacking of Rome by the Visigoths ends after three days. * 1172 – Henry the Young King and Margaret of France are crowned junior king and queen of England. * 1232 – Shikken Hojo Yasutoki of the Kamakura shogunate promulgates the Goseibai Shikimoku, the first Japanese legal code governing the ''samurai'' class. *1557 – The Battle of St. Quentin results in Emmanuel Philibert becoming Duke of Savoy. *1593 – Pierre Barrière failed an attempt to assassinate Henry IV of France. *1597 – Jeongyu War: Battle of Chilcheollyang: A Japanese fleet of 500 ships decimates Joseon commander Won Gyun’s fleet of 200 ships at Chilcheollyang. * 1600 – Ishida Mitsunari’s Western Army commences the Siege of Fushimi Castle, which is lightly defended by a much smaller Tokugawa garrison led by Torii Mototada. 1601–1900 *1689 – The Treaty of Nerchinsk is signed by Russia and the Qing Empire (Julian calendar). *1776 & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joshua Reynolds
Sir Joshua Reynolds (16 July 1723 – 23 February 1792) was an English painter, specialising in portraits. John Russell said he was one of the major European painters of the 18th century. He promoted the "Grand Style" in painting which depended on idealization of the imperfect. He was a founder and first president of the Royal Academy of Arts, and was knighted by George III in 1769. Early life Reynolds was born in Plympton, Devon, on 16 July 1723 the third son of the Rev. Samuel Reynolds, master of the Plympton Free Grammar School in the town. His father had been a fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, but did not send any of his sons to the university. One of his sisters was Mary Palmer (1716–1794), seven years his senior, author of ''Devonshire Dialogue'', whose fondness for drawing is said to have had much influence on him when a boy. In 1740 she provided £60, half of the premium paid to Thomas Hudson the portrait-painter, for Joshua's pupilage, and nine years later a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1841 In Art
Events from the year 1841 in art. Events * June 1 – Scottish painter and engraver Sir David Wilkie, returning to Britain from a voyage to the East, dies on board a ship out of Gibraltar and is buried at sea in the Bay of Gibraltar, an event commemorated in J. M. W. Turner's painting '' Peace - Burial at Sea'' (1842). * Fourth plinth, Trafalgar Square, London erected to the design of Charles Barry. The planned equestrian statue of King William IV being abandoned due to lack of funds, the plinth remains empty until 1999. * George Hayter appointed Principal Painter in Ordinary to Queen Victoria. *American artist John G. Rand invents the collapsible zinc oil paint tube, marketed by Winsor & Newton of London. Publications *Edward Lear – ''Views in Rome and its Environs'' (lithographs). * John Ruskin – ''The King of the Golden River'', with illustrations by Richard Doyle. Works * ''Amazone zu Pferde'' (Kiss), Berlin * Théodore Chassériau – '' The Toilette of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Karl Friedrich Schinkel
Karl Friedrich Schinkel (13 March 1781 – 9 October 1841) was a Prussian architect, city planner and painter who also designed furniture and stage sets. Schinkel was one of the most prominent architects of Germany and designed both neoclassical and neogothic buildings. His most famous buildings are found in and around Berlin. Biography Schinkel was born in Neuruppin, Margraviate of Brandenburg. When he was six, his father died in the disastrous Neuruppin fire of 1787. He became a student of architect Friedrich Gilly (1772–1800) (the two became close friends) and his father, David Gilly, in Berlin. At that time, the architectural taste in Prussia was shaped in neoclassical style, mainly by Carl Gotthard Langhans, the architect of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin. After returning to Berlin from his first trip to Italy in 1805, he started to earn his living as a painter. When he saw Caspar David Friedrich's painting ''Wanderer above the Sea of Fog'' at the 1810 Berlin art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March 13
Events Pre-1600 *624 – The Battle of Badr, the first major battle between the Muslims and Quraysh. *1567 – The Battle of Oosterweel, traditionally regarded as the start of the Eighty Years' War. *1591 – At the Battle of Tondibi in Mali, Moroccan forces of the Saadi dynasty, led by Judar Pasha, defeat the Songhai Empire, despite being outnumbered by at least five to one. 1601–1900 *1639 – Harvard College is named after clergyman John Harvard. *1697 – Nojpetén, capital of the last independent Maya kingdom, falls to Spanish conquistadors, the final step in the Spanish conquest of Guatemala. *1741 – The Battle of Cartagena de Indias (part of the War of Jenkins' Ear) begins. *1781 – William Herschel discovers Uranus. *1809 – Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in the Coup of 1809. *1811 – A French and Italian fleet is defeated by a British squadron off the island of Vis in the Adriatic during the Napoleonic Wars. *1826 & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1868 In Art
Events from the year 1868 in art. Events * Rodolphe Julian establishes the Académie Julian in Paris. * Deutsches Gewerbe-Museum zu Berlin established. * English merchant Francis Cook, 1st Viscount of Monserrate, begins to add paintings to his art collection at Doughty House, Richmond, London. Works * Lawrence Alma-Tadema – '' Phidias Showing the Frieze of the Parthenon to his Friends'' * Frédéric Bazille ** ''Self-portrait'' ** '' View of the Village'' * Albert Bierstadt ** Among the Sierra Nevada, California' ** In the Sierras' ** ''Tyrolean Landscape'' ** '' Yosemite Valley, Yosemite Park'' (approximate date) * Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux - '' Why Born Enslaved!'' or ''Why Born a Slave?'' - French ''Pourquoi! Naitre esclave?'' or ''La Negresse'' (first conceived) * Léon-Alexandre Delhomme – '' Democritus meditating on the seat of the soul'' (sculpture) * Lowes Cato Dickinson – Gladstone's Cabinet of 1886' * Lot Flannery – ''Abraham Lincoln'' (marble, Washington, D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Burnet (painter)
John Burnet (March 1781 or 20 March 1784 – 29 April 1868) was a Scottish engraver and painter. Life Son of the Surveyor-General of Excise of Scotland, Burnet was born either in Edinburgh in 1781 or in Fisherrow in 1784. He was apprenticed to the engraver Robert Scott and later trained at the Trustees Academy.National Maritime Museum In 1806, he moved from to London, where he became an established painter of , , and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Wright Of Derby
Joseph Wright (3 September 1734 – 29 August 1797), styled Joseph Wright of Derby, was an English landscape and portrait painter. He has been acclaimed as "the first professional painter to express the spirit of the Industrial Revolution". Wright is notable for his use of tenebrism, an exaggerated form of the better known chiaroscuro effect, which emphasizes the contrast of light and dark, and for his paintings of candle-lit subjects. His paintings of the birth of science out of alchemy, often based on the meetings of the Lunar Society of Birmingham, a group of scientists and industrialists living in the English Midlands, are a significant record of the struggle of science against religious values in the period known as the Age of Enlightenment. Many of Wright's paintings and drawings are owned by Derby City Council, and are on display at the Derby Museum and Art Gallery. Life Joseph Wright was born in Irongate, Derby, to a respectable family of lawyers. He was the third ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Romney (painter)
George Romney ( – 15 November 1802) was an English portrait painter. He was the most fashionable artist of his day, painting many leading society figures – including his artistic muse, Emma Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson. Early life and training Romney was born in Beckside in Dalton-in-Furness, Lancashire (now in Cumbria), the 3rd son (of 11 children) of John Romney, cabinet maker, and Anne Simpson. Raised in a cottage named High Cocken in modern-day Barrow-in-Furness, he was sent to school at nearby Dendron. He appears to have been an indifferent student and was withdrawn at the age of 11 and apprenticed to his father's business instead. He proved to have a natural ability for drawing and making things from wood – including violins (which he played throughout his life). From the age of 15, he was taught art informally by a local watchmaker called John Williamson, but his studies began in earnest in 1755, when he went to Kendal, at the age of 21, for a 4-year appr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford
Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world; it has buildings in every style of English architecture since late Anglo-Saxon. Oxford's industries include motor manufacturing, education, publishing, information technology and science. History The history of Oxford in England dates back to its original settlement in the Saxon period. Originally of strategic significance due to its controlling location on the upper reaches of the River Thames at its junction with the River Cherwell, the town grew in national importance during the early Norman period, and in the late 12th century became home to the fledgling University of Oxford. The city was besieged during The Anarchy in 1142. The university rose to dom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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