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1818 In Art
Events in the year 1818 in Art. Events * Sir Thomas Lawrence goes to Aachen to paint those present at the third congress. Works * Augustus Wall Callcott – ''The Mouth of the Tyne'' * Caspar David Friedrich ** ''Chalk Cliffs on Rügen'' ** ''Seaside by Moonlight'' ** ''Wanderer above the Sea of Fog'' * Hiroshige ** ''Eight Views of Omi'' ** ''Ten Famous Places in the Eastern Capital'' * Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres – ''The Death of Leonardo da Vinci'' * Thomas Sully – '' Major John Biddle'' * David Wilkie – The Penny Wedding' Births *January 21 – Alexander Joseph Daiwaille, Dutch portrait painter (died 1888) *January 26 – Amédée de Noé, French caricaturist and lithographer (died 1879) *January 28 – Alfred Stevens, English sculptor (died 1875) *April 3 – Jean-François Portaels, Flemish orientalist painter (died 1895) *April 14 – Louisa Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford, French-born British Pre-Raphaelite watercolorist (died 1891) *May 24 – John Henr ... [...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] |
January 26
Events Pre-1600 * 661 – The Rashidun Caliphate is effectively ended with the assassination of Ali, the last caliph. *1531 – The 6.4–7.1 1531 Lisbon earthquake, Lisbon earthquake kills about thirty thousand people. *1564 – The Council of Trent establishes an official distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism. *1564 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania defeats the Tsardom of Russia in the Battle of Ula during the Livonian War. 1601–1900 *1699 – For the first time, the Ottoman Empire permanently Treaty of Karlowitz, cedes territory to the Christian powers. *1700 – The 8.7–9.2 1700 Cascadia earthquake, Cascadia earthquake takes place off the west coast of North America, as evidenced by Japanese records. *1788 – The British First Fleet, led by Arthur Phillip, sails into Port Jackson, Port Jackson (Sydney Harbour) to establish Sydney, the first permanent European settlement on Australia. Commemorated as Australia Day. *1808 & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Henry Foley
John Henry Foley (24 May 1818 – 27 August 1874), often referred to as J. H. Foley, was an Irish sculptor, working in London. he is best known for his statues of Daniel O'Connell in Dublin, and of Prince Albert for the Albert Memorial in London. Life Foley was born 24 May 1818, at 6 Montgomery Street, Dublin, in what was then the city's artists' quarter. The street has since been renamed Foley Street in his honour. His father was a glass-blower and his step-grandfather Benjamin Schrowder was a sculptor. At the age of thirteen he began to study drawing and modelling at the Royal Dublin Society, where he took several first-class prizes. In 1835 he was admitted to the Royal Academy Schools in London. He exhibited at the Royal Academy for the first time in 1839, and came to fame in 1844 with his ''Youth at a Stream''. Thereafter commissions provided a steady career for the rest of his life. In 1849 he was made an associate, and in 1858 a full member of the Royal Academy of Art. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 24
Events Pre-1600 * 919 – The nobles of Franconia and Saxony elect Henry the Fowler at the Imperial Diet in Fritzlar as king of the East Frankish Kingdom. * 1218 – The Fifth Crusade leaves Acre for Egypt. * 1276 – Magnus Ladulås is crowned King of Sweden in Uppsala Cathedral. * 1487 – The ten-year-old Lambert Simnel is crowned in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland, with the name of Edward VI in a bid to threaten King Henry VII's reign. * 1567 – Erik XIV of Sweden and his guards murder five incarcerated Swedish nobles. *1595 – ''Nomenclator'' of Leiden University Library appears, the first printed catalog of an institutional library. 1601–1900 * 1607 – One hundred-five English settlers under the leadership of Captain Christopher Newport established the colony called Jamestown at the mouth of the James River on the Virginia coast, the first permanent English colony in America. * 1621 – The Protestant Union is formally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1891 In Art
The year 1891 in art involved some significant events. Events * May 10 – Danish sculptor Anne Marie Brodersen marries her compatriot, the classical composer Carl Nielsen, in St Mark's English Church, Florence, the couple having first met on March 2 in Paris. * June – Sidney Paget produces his first illustrations for Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories in ''The Strand Magazine''. * Henri Matisse begins his studies at the Académie Julian. * Correspondence of Marie Bashkirtseff and Gustave Flaubert is published. * Paul Gauguin sails to French Polynesia. * Impressionist Armand Guillaumin wins 100,000 francs in the French state lottery and is able to devote himself to painting full-time. * Félix Vallotton makes his first woodcuts. Works * William-Adolphe Bouguereau ** ''The Goose Girl'' ** '' Work Interrupted'' * Frank Bramley – '' For Of Such Is The Kingdom Of Heaven'' * Edward Burne-Jones – ''Sponsa de Libano'' * Philip Hermogenes Calderon – '' St. Elizabe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louisa Beresford, Marchioness Of Waterford
Louisa Anne Beresford, Marchioness of Waterford (née Stuart; 14 April 1818 – 12 May 1891) was a Pre-Raphaelite watercolourist and philanthropist. Biography Born in Paris, she was the daughter of Charles Stuart, 1st Baron Stuart de Rothesay and the former Lady Elizabeth Margaret Yorke. Louisa's elder sister was Charlotte Canning, Countess Canning. The family home was at Highcliffe Castle in Dorset, and had been in Stuart possession since about 1770 when Louisa's great-grandfather, John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (a founder of Kew Gardens), while out botanising, discovered the cliff-top viewsite overlooking Christchurch Bay, and commissioned the architect Robert Adam, to design High Cliff, a sumptuous Georgian mansion, with grounds laid out by Capability Brown. His fourth son, Lieutenant-General Sir Charles Stuart, inherited High Cliff, but landslips virtually destroyed the house, and he sold the greater part of the estate. Years later Louisa's father, who had had a lon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 14
Events Pre-1600 * 43 BC – Legions loyal to the Roman Senate, commanded by Gaius Pansa, defeat the forces of Mark Antony in the Battle of Forum Gallorum. * 69 – Vitellius, commanding Rhine-based armies, defeats Roman emperor Otho in the First Battle of Bedriacum to take power over Rome. * 966 – Following his marriage to the Christian Doubravka of Bohemia, the pagan ruler of the Polans, Mieszko I, converts to Christianity, an event considered to be the founding of the Polish state. * 972 – Otto II, Co-Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire, marries Byzantine princess Theophanu. She is crowned empress by Pope John XIII in Rome the same day. * 1395 – Tokhtamysh–Timur war: At the Battle of the Terek River, Timur defeats the army of the Golden Horde, beginning the khanate's permanent military decline. * 1471 – In England, the Yorkists under Edward IV defeat the Lancastrians under the Earl of Warwick at the Battle of Barnet; the Ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1895 In Art
The year 1895 in art involved some significant events. Events * January 1 – Alphonse Mucha's Lithography, lithographed poster for the play ''Gismonda'' starring Sarah Bernhardt is posted in Paris. Bernhardt is so satisfied with its success that she gives Mucha a six-year contract. * April 13 – The Russian Museum is established in Saint Petersburg by Nicholas II of Russia, Nicholas II. * April 30 – First Venice Biennale opens. * July 3 – Paul Gauguin leaves France to settle permanently in French Polynesia, Polynesia. * October – Edvard Munch exhibits an extended series of his ''Love'' paintings in Oslo, Christiania. * November – Paul Cézanne has his first solo exhibition, at the Paris gallery of Ambroise Vollard. * Munch (probably) writes "Could only have been painted by a madman" (''Kan kun være malet af en gal Mand!'') on his 1893 painting ''The Scream''. * Bernard Berenson publishes ''Lorenzo Lotto: An Essay in Constructive Art Criticism''. * Peter Henry Emerson, P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean-François Portaels
Jean-François Portaels or Jan Portaels (3 April 1818 – 8 February 1895) was a Belgian painter of genre scenes, biblical stories, landscapes, portraits and orientalist subjects. He was also a teacher and director of the Academy of Fine Arts of Ghent and the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.Jean François Portaels at the He is regarded as the founder of the Belgian Orientalist school. He was praised in his time as the premier painter of 'everyday elegance and feminine grace'.Edmond-Louis de Taeye, ''Les artistes belges contemporains. Leur vie, leurs œuvres, leur place dans l'art'', Castaigne, Brussels, 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 3
Events Pre-1600 * 686 – Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul. * 1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. * 1077 – The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created. * 1559 – The second of two the treaties making up the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis is signed, ending the Italian Wars. 1601–1900 *1721 – Robert Walpole becomes, in effect, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, though he himself denied that title. * 1851 – Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand after the death of his half-brother, Rama III. *1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins. * 1865 – American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. *1882 – American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James. * 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1875 In Art
Events from the year 1875 in art. Events * Claude Monet finishes painting his ''Snow at Argenteuil'' series. * Foundation of the Art Students League of New York. * Foundation of the Ruskin Gallery as the Museum of St George in a cottage in Walkley on the outskirts of Sheffield in the north of England by John Ruskin. Works * William-Adolphe Bouguereau – '' Flora and Zephyr'' * Gustave Caillebotte ** '' The Floor-scrapers'' ** '' The Gardeners'' ** '' The Yerres, effect of rain'' ** ''Young Man at his Window'' (René Caillebotte) * Julia Margaret Cameron – '''So like a shatter'd column lay the King'; the Passing of Arthur'' (photograph) * Paul Cézanne - '' L'Après-midi à Naples'' * Józef Chełmoński – ''Indian Summer'' * Edgar Degas – ''Place de la Concorde'' (''Viscount Lepic and his Daughters Crossing the Place de la Concorde'') * Thomas Eakins – ''The Gross Clinic'' * Atkinson Grimshaw – ''Liverpool from Wapping'' * Jean-Paul Laurens – '' L'Excommunication ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfred Stevens (sculptor)
Alfred George Stevens (30 December 18171 May 1875), was a British sculptor. His major work is the monument to the Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, Duke of Wellington in St Paul's Cathedral. Early life Alfred Stevens was born on 30 December 1817 at Blandford Forum in Dorset, the son of a decorator and joiner. At the age of ten, he entered his father's workshop as an assistant. In 1833, the rector of his parish enabled him to go to Italy, where he spent nine years studying at Naples, Bologna, Siena, Pompeii, Capri, Rome, Milan, Venice, and Florence where he studied for a time at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze, Accademia di Belle Arti. Stevens had never attended an English school. In 1841, Bertel Thorvaldsen employed him for a year in Rome. After a significant period of study and training throughout Italy, Stevens returned to England. Career In 1845, Stevens obtained a tutorial position in the Government School of Design at Somerset House, London, where he remaine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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