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1799 In Art
Events from the year 1799 in art. Events * March 19 – Sculptor Jean-Jacques Castex leaves Cairo for Upper Egypt in the group led by Pierre Girard. He returns from the expedition with many drawings. * James Barry becomes the first and (for 200 years) only member to be expelled from the British Royal Society of Arts, soon after the appearance of his belligerent ''Letter to the Dilettanti Society''. * Caspar David Friedrich suffers his first depressive interlude. * Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes publishes ''Éléments de perspective pratique: à l'usage des artistes, suivis de réflexions et conseils à un élève sur la peinture, et particulièrement sur le genre du paysage'' (Elements of practical perspective, for the use of artists; followed by reflections and advice to a student on painting, particularly on the genre of landscape). Works * Lemuel Francis Abbott – '' Rear-Admiral Sir Horatio Nelson'' * Jacques-Louis David – '' The Intervention of the Sabine Women'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-Jacques Castex
Jean-Jacques Castex (9 April 1731 – 1822) was a French sculptor. Castex was born in Toulouse. He participated in the Napoleonic Campaign in Egypt. In January 1799, he accompanied the geographer Bertre in his travel to Fayoum. He was part of the committee led by Pierre Girard which left Cairo on 19 March 1799 to go to Upper Egypt. He made a wax model, reduced to one third, of the Dendera zodiac. He created, after the drawings he had brought back from Egypt, a ''Zodiaque'', which was exhibited at the 1819 Salon Salon may refer to: Common meanings * Beauty salon, a venue for cosmetic treatments * French term for a drawing room, an architectural space in a home * Salon (gathering), a meeting for learning or enjoyment Arts and entertainment * Salon (P .... He remains famous for having carved an inscription on the stone of the great temple of Philae. Despite his talent, he died in poverty at the Hôtel-Dieu de Paris. ''Edouard de Villiers du Terrage, Journal et souveni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles IV In His Hunting Clothes
''Charles IV in his Hunting Clothes'' is an oil on canvas painting of 1799 by the Spanish artist Francisco Goya, the second of his two portraits of King Charles IV of Spain. While Goya devotes a great deal of attention to his depiction of the king's sash and cloth, he emphasises his weakness in his rendering of a near-portly belly and indecisive stare. The art critic Robert Hughes describes a "big nosed face, framed in the tricorned hat like the head of an affable turtle poking from its shell".Hughes, 146 It is part of the Spanish national collection, now displayed in the Royal Palace of Madrid.Where visits cover only a limited group of rooms, so it may not be possible to see it. During his career, Goya depicted both father and son in hunting dress. The inspiration for the older man's outfit is probably taken from Velázquez's portrait of Philip IV, which the artist would have the opportunity to see as then court painter. Goya pays tribute to Titian's ''Portrait of Charle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick Catherwood
Frederick Catherwood (27 February 1799 – 27 September 1854) was an English artist, architect and explorer, best remembered for his meticulously detailed drawings of the ruins of the Maya civilization. He explored Mesoamerica in the mid 19th century with writer John Lloyd Stephens. Their books, ''Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas and Yucatán'' and ''Incidents of Travel in Yucatán'', were best sellers and introduced to the Western world the civilization of the ancient Maya. In 1837, Catherwood was elected into the National Academy of Design as an Honorary member. Mediterranean travels Catherwood, having made many trips to the Mediterranean between 1824 and 1832 to draw the monuments made by the Egyptians, Carthaginians, and Phoenicians, stated that the monuments in the Americas bear no architectural similarity to those in the Old World. Thus, they must have been made by the native people of the area. Catherwood made visits to Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and Pales ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1842 In Art
__NOTOC__ Year 184 ( CLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Eggius and Aelianus (or, less frequently, year 937 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 184 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place China * The Yellow Turban Rebellion and Liang Province Rebellion break out in China. * The Disasters of the Partisan Prohibitions ends. * Zhang Jue leads the peasant revolt against Emperor Ling of Han of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Heading for the capital of Luoyang, his massive and undisciplined army (360,000 men), burns and destroys government offices and outposts. * June – Ling of Han places his brother-in-law, He Jin, in command of the imperial army and sends them to attack the Yellow Turban rebels. * Winter – Zha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Polish People
Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Central Europe. The preamble to the Constitution of the Republic of Poland defines the Polish nation as comprising all the citizens of Poland, regardless of heritage or ethnicity. The majority of Poles adhere to Roman Catholicism. The population of self-declared Poles in Poland is estimated at 37,394,000 out of an overall population of 38,512,000 (based on the 2011 census), of whom 36,522,000 declared Polish alone. A wide-ranging Polish diaspora (the '' Polonia'') exists throughout Europe, the Americas, and in Australasia. Today, the largest urban concentrations of Poles are within the Warsaw and Silesian metropolitan areas. Ethnic Poles are considered to be the descendants of the ancient West Slavic Lechites and other tribes that inhabite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Belarusians
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Walenty Wańkowicz
Walenty Wilhelm Wańkowicz ( lt, Valentinas Vankavičius, be, Валенты Ваньковіч; February 14, 1799 in Kałużyce - May 12, 1842 in Paris) was a Polish painter of Belarusian origin. He studied at the Jesuit College in Polotsk, the University of Wilno and the Imperial Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. He produced, among other things, a well-known portrait of Adam Mickiewicz (1827–28).Brief biography @ MEMIM Encyclopedia Legacy Wańkowicz is honored in Belarus as one of the most important 19th-century painters of Belarusian origin. There is a monument to him in Minsk. The Vankovich House / Wańkowicz House, the former mansion of the Wańkowicz family, is now a museum in the historical part of . ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1846 In Art
Events from the year 1846 in art. Events *Edward Lear publishes ''Illustrated Excursions to Italy'' and is made Drawing Master to Queen Victoria. *The Wellington Statue by Matthew Cotes Wyatt is erected at its original location in London's Hyde Park Corner. Works * Ivan Aivazovsky – ''Battle of Navarino'' * Thomas Cole – ''Catskill Landscape'' * William Etty – '' Musidora: The Bather 'At the Doubtful Breeze Alarmed''' (Tate Britain version) * Jean-Léon Gérôme – '' Young Greeks at a Cockfight'' *Louis Hersent – ''Portrait of Delphine Gay'' * Edward Hicks – ''Noah's Ark'' *John Everett Millais – '' Pizarro Seizing the Inca of Peru'' (Tate Britain) * Jean-François Millet – ''Prometheus Unbound'' * Rembrandt Peale – ''Self-portrait'' * Eliseo Sala – ''Pia de' Tolomei'' *Giovanni Strazza – ''Ishmael Abandoned in the Desert'' (completed). *George Frederic Watts – ''Paolo and Francesca'' Births * March 17 – Kate Greenaway, English illustrator (died 1901 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodolphe Töpffer
Rodolphe Töpffer ( , ; 31 January 1799 – 8 June 1846) was a Swiss teacher, author, painter, cartoonist, and caricaturist. He is best known for his illustrated books (''littérature en estampes'', "graphic literature"), which are possibly the earliest European comics. He is known as the father of comic strips and has been credited as the "first comics artist in history." Paris-educated, Töpffer worked as a schoolteacher at a boarding school, where he entertained students with his caricatures. In 1837, he published (published in the United States in 1842 as ''The Adventures of Obadiah Oldbuck''). Each page of the book had one to six captioned cartoon panels, much like modern comics. Töpffer published several more of these books, and wrote theoretical essays on the form. Biography Töpffer was born on 12 pluviôse of the seventh year of the French Republican calendar at ten hours after noon (« dix heures après midi »), that is on 31 January 1799, in Geneva, Léman ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1879 In Art
Events from the year 1879 in art. Events * April 10–May 11 – Fourth Impressionist exhibition in Paris, arranged by Gustave Caillebotte at 28 avenue de l'Opéra. *Ford Madox Brown begins painting ''The Manchester Murals'' in Manchester Town Hall (England). *Chicago Academy of Fine Arts established. *Guimet Museum of Asian art established in Lyon, France. * Museum of Fine Arts Berne established in Switzerland. *Kate Greenaway's first book, with her own colour illustrations, '' Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children'', is published in London. Works * Michael Ancher – ''Vil han klare pynten (Will he round the point)'' * Albert Fitch Bellows – ''The Parsonage'' * William-Adolphe Bouguereau – ''The Birth of Venus'' * William Burges – Golden Bed * Edward Burne-Jones – The Annunciation' * Edgar Degas ** '' The Dance Lesson'' (approximate date) ** ''Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando'' ** Portrait of Henri Michel-Lévy in his studio' ** ''Portraits at the Stock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valentine Bartholomew
Valentine Bartholomew (18 January 1799 – 21 March 1879) was an English Still life, flower painter. Life Bartholomew had some professional instruction in art early on, but was largely self-taught. Between 1821 and 1827, he worked for and lived with the lithographer Charles Hullmandel, whose daughter Adelaide he married at the end of this period. She died in January 1839, and the next year, he married Ann Charlotte Bartholomew, Ann Charlotte Turnbull (d. 1862), an author and flower and miniature painter, the widow of the composer Walter Turnbull. Bartholomew was an early member of the Royal Watercolour Society, Society of Painters in Water Colours, which he joined in 1835. He had a special talent for flower painting, a branch of art which he pursued with much success, his works being chiefly remarkable for the great care and the large scale on which they were carried out. 'Azaleas ' and "Camellias" are in the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Bartholomew held for ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1872 In Art
Events from the year 1872 in art. Events * February 20 – The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens in New York City. * June – American-born painter James McNeill Whistler exhibits '' Arrangement in Grey and Black: The Artist's Mother'', painted the previous year, at the 104th Royal Academy summer exhibition in London after the curator Sir William Boxall threatens to resign from the R.A. if it is rejected. * November 13 (07:35) ''(probable date)'' – Claude Monet begins painting ''Impression, Sunrise'' (''Impression, soleil levant'') as viewed from his hotel room at Le Havre. * November – Edward Lear acquires his cat Foss. *''date unknown'' **William De Morgan sets up an art pottery in Chelsea, London. **The first "Wallace fountains", to the design of sculptor Charles-Auguste Lebourg, are installed in Paris. **Lise Tréhot last models for Renoir. Works * Peter Nicolai Arbo – ''The Wild Hunt of Odin'' * Arnold Böcklin – '' Self-portrait with Death playing the fiddle'' * Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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