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1709 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1709, art Events from the year 1709 in art. Events * The Baroque church of Santa María Magdalena, Seville, is completed. Paintings * Paolo Baronni – Frescoes in the Basilica of St Denis. * Giuseppe Maria Crespi – ''The Flea''. * Sir Godfrey Kneller Portraits of Admirals Sir John Jennings and Sir Stafford Fairborne. * Kanō Tsunenobu – Portrait of a Japanese official. Births * March 22 – Giuseppe Zais, Italian painter of landscapes ( ''vedutisti'') (died 1784) * June 11 – Joachim Martin Falbe, German portrait painter (died 1782) * December 24 – Johann Evangelist Holzer, Austrian-German painter (died 1740) * ''date unknown'' ** Giuseppe Angeli, Italian painter of the late-baroque active mainly in Venice (died 1798) ** Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann, German painter and engraver (died 1761) ** John Cheere, English sculptor (died 1787) ** Johann Michael Feuchtmayer, German stucco sculptor and plasterer (died 1772) ** Jean Girardet, French pain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Santa María Magdalena, Seville
Santa María Magdalena is a Baroque church in Seville, southern Spain. It was built in 1691-1709 to a design of architect Leonardo de Figueroa. It is the seat of various ''hermandades'' (confraternities which participate in the religious processions for which Seville is famous). History The church was built to serve a Dominican monastery, and replaced a medieval building dating from after the Christian conquest of the city in 1248. The monastery was closed in the 19th century, and Santa María Magdalena became a parish church. Architecture The façade has three portals, one featuring a sculpture of "St. Dominic" by Pedro Roldán. Above the portals are an oculus, sided by two blue spheres symbolizing the mystery of the rosary, and a bell-gable (1697). All the exterior of the church is characterized by a large use of blue and red decorative motifs. The interior has a nave and two aisles, a transept and five chapels, including the only one remaining from the previous edifice, tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Evangelist Holzer
Johann Evangelist Holzer (December 24, 1709 – July 21, 1740) was an Austrian-German painter. Holzer was born in Burgeis, Mals, in the Vinschgau Valley of South Tyrol, as the son of a miller. He was sent to undertake a classical course of study at Marienberg Abbey, but wished to study art; a portrait he painted of Johann Baptist Murr, then the abbot of the abbey, convinced his father to yield to his wishes. He studied under Nikolaus Auer and made rapid progress. At the age of 18 he painted the altarpiece of the Marienberg Abbey church, depicting Saint Joseph as patron of the afflicted, ill, and dying. He then went to Straubing, where he learned under Joseph Anton Merz how to paint frescos, which would become the main source of his later fame. He helped Merz paint the frescos of Oberalteich Abbey, and while in Straubing also painted Saint Anthony of Padua for the Franciscan church there. 1738/39 was in the painting of Eichstätt for the high altar of the Schutzenge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Violante Beatrice Siries
Violante Beatrice Siries (1709–1783) was an Italian painter. She was born in Florence and studied under Hyacinthe Rigaud and François Boucher in Paris from 1726. Returning later to Florence she married Giuseppe Cerroti and continued her artistic studies under Conti. Siries was talented in several genres, but established herself as a famous portraitist. She succeeded in gaining the patronage of the Medici family and their financial partners the Gondi family in Florence after the death of Giovanna Fratellini (1731) and travelled to Rome and Vienna to execute commissions. Her most ambitious work was a fourteen figure family group of the emperor Charles VI, the father of Maria Theresa of Austria (1735), and three of her self-portraits are preserved in the Uffizi Gallery. In later life Siries became a respected teacher and her pupils included Anna Bacherini Piattoli. At least one of her self-portraits is part of the Uffizi Gallery's collection. She is one of the artists whose ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1778 In Art
Events from the year 1778 in art. Events * December – The artistic cargo of the British ship ''Westmorland'', seized by the French, is acquired by Spanish interests. * Nicholas Pocock gives up his career as a seaman and devotes himself to painting. Paintings * John Singleton Copley – '' Watson and the Shark'' * Francisco Goya – '' Children With a Cart'' * Jean-Antoine Houdon – Portrait busts of Rousseau and Voltaire * John Hamilton Mortimer – Sir Arthegal, the Knight of Justice, with Talus, the Iron Man (from Spenser’s ‘Faerie Queene’)' * Sir Joshua Reynolds ** ''Jane, Countess of Harrington'' ** ''Lady Caroline Howard'' ** ''Captain John Hayes St Leger'' * George Romney – '' Jane Gordon, Duchess of Gordon, and Her Son, George Gordon'' * Richard Samuel – '' Portraits in the Characters of the Muses in the Temple of Apollo'' * Gilbert Stuart – ''Self-portrait'' * Benjamin West – ''The Battle of the Boyne'' * Johann Zoffany – ''Tribuna of the Uffizi'' (co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Girardet
Jean Girardet (1709, Lunéville–28 September 1778, Nancy, France, Nancy) was a French portrait and mural painter. Biography Before becoming a painter he was, successively, a seminarian, a law student, and a cavalry officer. After settling on art, he enrolled at the Nancy-Université, where he studied under the direction of Claude Charles. He created several large decorative works before leaving in 1738, to join the entourage of the new Duke of Tuscany, Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor, Francis II, and travelled with him as far as Florence, where he completed his studies.Bouleau, Cécile, ''Éclats'', Musée des beaux-arts de Nancy, Somogy, 2005 He worked for Duchess Élisabeth Charlotte d'Orléans in Commercy, until her death in 1744. After another stay in Florence, he returned home in 1748, to enter the service of Stanisław Leszczyński, Duke of Lorraine and former King of Poland, as a court painter. His talent for portrait painting earned him the title of "Ordinary Painte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1772 In Art
Events from the year 1772 in art. Events *July 13 – Captain James Cook leaves Plymouth in HMS ''Resolution'' on his second voyage of exploration with landscape painter William Hodges onboard (in lieu of Johann Zoffany). *King George III of the United Kingdom appoints Benjamin West official painter to the court. Works *John Singleton Copley – ''Samuel Adams'' (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) *Thomas Gainsborough **''The Linley Sisters'' **'' William Johnstone-Pulteney'' * Thomas Jones – ''Pencerrig'' *Tilly Kettle – ''Dancing Girls (Blacks)'' *Anton Raphael Mengs – '' The Triumph of History over Time'' (Allegory of the Museum Clementinum; ceiling fresco in the Camera dei Papiri, Vatican Library) *Fyodor Rokotov – ''Portrait of Alexandra Struyskaya'' *Alexander Roslin **'' King Christian VII of Denmark'' **'' King Gustav III of Sweden'' *George Stubbs **''The Kongouro from New Holland'' **''Portrait of a Large Dog'' *Claude Joseph Vernet – ''The Shipwreck'' *Joseph Wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Michael Feuchtmayer
Johann Michael Feuchtmayer (the Younger) (sometimes spelled Johann Michael Feuchtmayr or Feichtmayr) (1709 – June 4, 1772) was a German stuccoworker and sculptor of the late Baroque period. He collaborated with the architects Johann Michael Fischer, Johann Joseph Christian, and Franz Joseph Spiegler on numerous ecclesiastical buildings in Upper Swabia. His stucco decoration in the Benedictine abbey church (designed by Fischer) of Ottobeuren is considered his crowning achievement.''Germany: A Phaidon Cultural Guide,'' p. 584. Feuchtmayer was born into a family of artists in Wessobrunn, Bavaria. He and his uncle, the stuccoworker Franz Joseph Feuchtmayer (1660–1718); his uncle, the painter Johann Michael Feuchtmayer the Elder, Johann Michael Feuchtmayer the Elder (1666–1713); his brother Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Elder (1705–1764); his cousin, the painter and sculptor Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer (1696–1770); and his nephew, Franz Xaver Feuchtmayer the Younger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1787 In Art
{{Year nav topic5, 1787, art Events from the year 1787 in art. Events * Seventeen-year-old Thomas Lawrence arrives in London and takes lodgings near Sir Joshua Reynolds. Works * Jacques-Louis David – ''The Death of Socrates'' (completed) * Thomas Gainsborough ** '':File:Thomas Gainsborough Lady Georgiana Cavendish.jpg, Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire'' ** ''Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (painting), Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan'' * Francisco Goya ** ''Highwaymen Attacking a Coach'' ** The Snowstorm (Winter)' ** The Swing' * Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – '':File:Lebr04.jpg, Marie Antoinette and her Children'' (completed) * Jacques-Antoine-Marie Lemoine – '':File:Lemoine Portrait dame fils fille balcon fenêtre.jpg, Portrait of a Woman with Her Son and Daughter in a Balcony Window'' * George Romney (painter), George Romney – Mrs Jordan as Peggy' * Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein – '':File:Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein 007.jpg, Goethe in the Campagna'' Award ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Cheere
John Cheere (1709–1787) was an English sculptor, born in London. Brother of the sculptor Sir Henry Cheere, he was originally apprenticed as a haberdasher from 1725 to 1732. Life Among his works were a gilt equestrian statue of William III in St James's Square, London, made in 1739, and a gilded lead statue of George II for Saint Helier, Jersey, in 1751. His most lasting legacy, however, are probably his lead statues for gardens. These kinds of sculptures were popular for the summer houses of the 18th century’s aristocracy. Some were reproductions of classical Roman or Greek sculptures, but there was also a demand for statues depicting simple, pastoral themes. In 1756, the Portuguese minister in London placed an order with Cheere for 98 lead sculptures for the royal palace of Queluz. He also created several mythological statues for the gardens at Stourhead, in 1751 and 1766, and a life-size lead figure of William Shakespeare for the jubilee celebrations in Stratford-on-A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1761 In Art
Events from the year 1761 in art. Events * May 9 – Society of Artists of Great Britain exhibition opens in London. Exhibitors include Gainsborough, Hogarth and Nollekens, and Stubbs shows a painting for the first time (''A Stallion Called Romulus''). * Scottish-born artist Allan Ramsay appointed to succeed John Shackelton as Principal Painter in Ordinary to George III of Great Britain. Works * François-Hubert Drouais – ''The children of the comte de Bethune playing the guitar'' * Thomas Gainsborough – Portrait of Susannah "Suky" Trevelyan * William Hogarth – '' The Five Orders of Perriwigs as they were Worn at the Late Coronation Measured Architectonically'' (satirical engraving) * Anton Raphael Mengs ** ''Parnassus'' (ceiling fresco for Villa Albani, Rome) ** Portrait of Charles III of Spain * Joshua Reynolds ** '' David Garrick Between Tragedy and Comedy'' ** Georgiana, Countess Spencer, and Her Daughter' ** ''The Ladies Amabel and Mary Jemima Yorke'' (probable date ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann
Philipp Hieronymus Brinckmann or Brinkman (1709 – 21 December 1760) was a German painter and engraver Life He was a student of Johann Georg Dathan in Speyer. In 1733, he was named a court painter by Elector Charles Philipp in Mannheim. He was promoted to Director of the Malereikabinett (art advisors) in 1757. Later that same year, he became a member of the Geheimen Staatsrats (Secret Council of State). As court painter, He was also involved in the Bibliothekskabinett (library advisors) of Electress Elisabeth Augusta at Mannheim Palace. At the Jesuit Church, he created frescoes and altarpieces. As a landscape painter, he was influenced by the works of Salvator Rosa and Rembrandt. He received praise from Goethe in his book, ''Dichtung und Wahrheit ''Aus meinem Leben: Dichtung und Wahrheit'' (''From my Life: Poetry and Truth''; 1811–1833) is an autobiography by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe that comprises the time from the poet's childhood to the days in 1775, when he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
