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1798 In Art
Events from the year 1798 in art. Events * English painter Robert Smirke begins to produce ''The Seven Ages of Man'' series for the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery. Works * William Beechey ** ''George III and the Prince of Wales reviewing troops'' ** Thomas Hope' * François Gérard – ''Cupid and Psyche'' * Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – ''Jean-Baptiste Belley'' * Francisco Goya **''Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos'' (approximate date) ** Witches' Sabbath * Antoine-Jean Gros – ''Le pont d'Arcole'' * Thomas Lawrence – '' Caroline, Princess of Wales'' * John Opie – '' Portrait of Amelia Opie'' * Thomas Whitcombe – '' The Battle of Camperdown, 11 October 1797'' Births * January 8 – John Graham Lough, English sculptor known for his funerary monuments and a variety of portrait sculpture (died 1876) * January 9 – Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire, French sculptor (died 1880) * February 17 – Josef Matěj Navrátil, Czech painter of paintings, murals and frescos (died 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Smirke (painter)
Robert Smirke (15 April 1753 – 5 January 1845) was an English painter and illustrator, specialising in small paintings showing subjects taken from literature. He was a member of the Royal Academy. Life Smirke was born at Wigton near Carlisle, the son of a travelling artist. When he was twelve he was apprenticed to a heraldic painter in London, and at the age of twenty began to study at the Royal Academy Schools. In 1775 he became a member of the Incorporated Society of Artists, with which he began to exhibit by sending five works; he showed works there again in 1777 and 1778. In 1786 he exhibited ''Narcissus'' and ''The Lady and Sabrina'' ( a subject from Milton's ''Comus'') at the Royal Academy; these were followed by many works, usually small in size, illustrative of the English poets, especially James Thomson. In 1791 Smirke was elected an associate of the Royal Academy, in which year he exhibited "The Widow". He became a full academician in 1793, when he painted as his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Graham Lough
John Graham Lough (8 January 1798 – 8 April 1876) was an English sculptor known for his funerary monuments and a variety of portrait sculpture. He also produced ideal classical male and female figures. Life John Graham Lough was born at Black Hedley Port, Greenhead near Consett, County Durham, one of eleven children born to William Lough of Aycliff, County Durham and Barbara Clementson of Dalton, Northumberland. His father was a farmer near Hexham and he may himself have worked as a farmer in his youth. He was later apprenticed to a stonemason, at Shotley Field near Newcastle upon Tyne. He later found work in Newcastle as an ornamental sculptor and carved the decorations on the building of the city's Literary and Philosophical Society. Lough came to London by sea in 1825 to study the Elgin Marbles at the British Museum. He took lodgings in a first floor in Burleigh Street, above a greengrocer's shop, and there commenced to mould his colossal statue of ''Milo of Croton'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1882 In Art
Events from the year 1882 in art. Events * April 9 – English poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti dies aged 53 of Bright's disease at Birchington-on-Sea in the care of his brother, the critic William Michael Rossetti. * March 1 – Seventh Impressionist exhibition in Paris opens at 251 rue Saint-Honoré. * August – Vincent van Gogh starts painting in oil on the sea coast at Scheveningen, sponsored by his brother Theo. * Walter Langley moves to Newlyn on the coast of Cornwall, becoming the first resident artist of the Newlyn School. * The gallery of botanical illustrations made and donated by Marianne North is opened at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, the first permanent solo exhibition by a female artist in Britain. * The Royal Manchester Institution transfers its galleries and collections to Manchester Corporation (England) as Manchester Art Gallery. Works * Marie Bashkirtseff – ''Head of a Woman'' * Edward Burne-Jones – '' The Mill'' (1870–82; Victoria and Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elizabeth Goodridge
Elizabeth (Eliza) Goodridge (March 12, 1798 – April 18, 1882) was an American painter who specialized in miniatures. She was the younger sister of Sarah Goodridge, also an American miniaturist. Early life Goodridge was born in Templeton, Massachusetts, the seventh child and fourth daughter of Ebenezer Goodridge and his wife Beulah Childs. Eliza's earliest miniatures date from the late 1820s and are similar in style to her sister's work, although not as technically advanced. At an early age, she began drawing and showed an aptitude for art. Women's educational opportunities were limited at the time and where Goodridge lived, so she was essentially a self-taught artist. Career Goodridge probably began her career in Boston working with her sister, but spent most of her life in the central part of Massachusetts. She lived in Templeton, Massachusetts, and made several extended trips to Worcester in the 1830s and 1840s, during which time she lived with and painted members of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1866 In Art
Events from the year 1866 in art. Events * July 28 – 18-year-old Vinnie Ream is commissioned by the United States Congress to make a marble statue of Abraham Lincoln for the United States Capitol rotunda in Washington, D.C. * Nationalmuseum opens in new premises in Stockholm, Sweden, under this name. Works * Albert Bierstadt – ''A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie'' * Carl Bloch – '' In a Roman Osteria'' * Odoardo Borrani – ''At the Chorus'' * Edward Burne-Jones – '' The Princess Sabra Led to the Dragon'' * Julia Margaret Cameron – photographs ** ''The Mountain Nymph Sweet Liberty'' ** Series of Life Sized Heads * Paul Cézanne – ''Portrait of Louis-Auguste Cézanne, Father of the Artist, reading'' l'Evénement (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) * Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – ''Agostino'' (National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.) * Gustave Courbet ** '' L'Origine du monde'' ** '' Le Sommeil'' * Edgar Degas – ''Steeplechase – The F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scotland
Scotland (, ) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Covering the northern third of the island of Great Britain, mainland Scotland has a border with England to the southeast and is otherwise surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, the North Sea to the northeast and east, and the Irish Sea to the south. It also contains more than 790 islands, principally in the archipelagos of the Hebrides and the Northern Isles. Most of the population, including the capital Edinburgh, is concentrated in the Central Belt—the plain between the Scottish Highlands and the Southern Uplands—in the Scottish Lowlands. Scotland is divided into 32 administrative subdivisions or local authorities, known as council areas. Glasgow City is the largest council area in terms of population, with Highland being the largest in terms of area. Limited self-governing power, covering matters such as education, social services and roads and transportation, is devolved from the Scott ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Hay (artist)
David Ramsay Hay (March 1798, Edinburgh – 10 September 1866) was a Scottish artist, interior decorator and colour theorist. Life David Ramsay Hay was the son of Rebekah or Rebecca Carmichael, a published poet and friend of Robert Burns. They lived at the foot of Monteith's Close off the Royal Mile in Edinburgh. After her husband died prematurely and penniless, David was educated at the expense of her brother, David Ramsay, a banker and owner of the ''Edinburgh Evening Courant'', then apprenticed as a reading-boy in Ramsay's printing office in Edinburgh. Instead though (around 1813), Hay moved to join Gavin Beugo (son of John Beugo) a decorative artist, based on West Register Street in Edinburgh's New Town. His fellow-apprentice was his friend, the topographical artist David Roberts. In April 1820 he commenced work at Abbotsford for Walter Scott. In 1850 he decorated Holyroodhouse for Queen Victoria. In the 1920s, Queen Mary had these decorative schemes painted over, but w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1865 In Art
Events from the year 1865 in art. Events * July 21 – Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) photographs Effie Gray Millais, John Everett Millais, and their daughters Effie and Mary at 7 Cromwell Place, London. * Ford Madox Brown completes his painting ''Work'' after thirteen years. * Morris, Marshall, Faulkner & Co. install the stained-glass east window in the chapel of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, England, designed by Edward Burne-Jones, William Morris and Philip Webb. * Édouard Manet's painting ''Olympia'' is first exhibited, at the Salon (Paris), and causes controversy. * Jean-François Millet's painting '' The Angelus'' (''L'Angélus'') is first exhibited and becomes very popular in France. * The Bargello in Florence becomes an art museum. Works * Lawrence Alma-Tadema – ''An Egyptian at his Doorway'' * Albert Bierstadt ** ''Looking Down Yosemite Valley, California'' ** '' Staubbach Falls, near Lauterbrunnen, Switzerland'' * Ford Madox Brown – ''Work'' * Constantino Brumidi – ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frescos
Fresco (plural ''frescos'' or ''frescoes'') is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid ("wet") lime plaster. Water is used as the vehicle for the dry-powder pigment to merge with the plaster, and with the setting of the plaster, the painting becomes an integral part of the wall. The word ''fresco'' ( it, affresco) is derived from the Italian adjective ''fresco'' meaning "fresh", and may thus be contrasted with fresco-secco or secco mural painting techniques, which are applied to dried plaster, to supplement painting in fresco. The fresco technique has been employed since antiquity and is closely associated with Italian Renaissance painting. The word ''fresco'' is commonly and inaccurately used in English to refer to any wall painting regardless of the plaster technology or binding medium. This, in part, contributes to a misconception that the most geographically and temporally common wall painting technology was the painting into wet lime plaster. Even in appar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murals
A mural is any piece of graphic artwork that is painted or applied directly to a wall, ceiling or other permanent substrate. Mural techniques include fresco, mosaic, graffiti and marouflage. Word mural in art The word ''mural'' is a Spanish adjective that is used to refer to what is attached to a wall. The term ''mural'' later became a noun. In art, the word mural began to be used at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1906, Dr. Atl issued a manifesto calling for the development of a monumental public art movement in Mexico; he named it in Spanish ''pintura mural'' (English: ''wall painting''). In ancient Roman times, a mural crown was given to the fighter who was first to scale the wall of a besieged town. "Mural" comes from the Latin ''muralis'', meaning "wall painting". History Antique art Murals of sorts date to Upper Paleolithic times such as the cave paintings in the Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave in Borneo (40,000-52,000 BP), Chauvet Cave in Ardèche department of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josef Matěj Navrátil
Josef Matěj Navrátil (17 February 1798 – 21 April 1865) was a Czech painter. Early life Born in Slaný, Navrátil was trained by his father as a decorator, and after further study at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague became a painter-decorator. He also took numerous trips abroad, particularly to Switzerland. Career His wall paintings from this early period still decorate different objects in Prague (including Prague Castle), the Postal Museum in Liběchov, Ploskovice, Jirny (with its famous Alpine room) and elsewhere. On the imperial castle in Zákupy when editing as the future seat of the emperor in the years 1850 - 1853 with the help of assistants decorated the 20 rooms historical and genre paintings, ornaments, and allegorical works. His fame grew, and in 1850 he became president of the Union of Artists. Eleven years later, he had to leave because partially paralyzed as a result of a stroke. He lived in poverty. Legacy The first comprehensive exhibition of his work took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1880 In Art
Events from the year 1880 in art. Events * October – Vincent van Gogh enrolls in a beginners art course at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. * Fifth Impressionist exhibition in Paris, at 10 rue des Pyramides. The realist painter Jean-François Raffaëlli is also invited by Degas to exhibit. * Silver Studio founded by Arthur Silver in London for textile and wallpaper design. * Anton Mauve paints ''Changing Pasture''; his palette and usage of colour influences Vincent van Gogh. * Michael Ancher marries fellow painter Anna Brøndum. * National Gallery of Canada established in Ottawa. Awards * Grand Prix de Rome, painting: Henri Lucien Doucet. * Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture: * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: * Grand Prix de Rome, music: Lucien Joseph Edouard Hillemacher. Works * Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi – The ''Lion of Belfort'' * Marie Bashkirtseff – ''Self-portrait'' * Arnold Böcklin – '' Isle of the Dead'' (german: Die Toteninsel, first two ve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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