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1756 In Art
Events from the year 1756 in art. Events * Richard Trevor, Prince Bishop of Durham, acquires 13 paintings by Francisco de Zurbarán depicting the patriarch Jacob and 12 of his sons for his palace at Auckland Castle in north east England. Paintings * François Boucher paints portraits of Madame de Pompadour. * John Singleton Copley paints pictures with Rococo influence. * Szymon Czechowicz paints Bishop Stanislaus bringing back to life Piotrawin. * Thomas Gainsborough paints '' The Painter's Daughters Chasing a Butterfly'' * Joshua Reynolds paints portraits of ''Susanna Beckford'' and '' Captain Robert Orme''. * Johan Zoffany paints his '' Self-portrait as David with the head of Goliath'' (approximate date). Births * January 6 – Gaspare Landi, Italian Neoclassical painter (died 1830) * February 12 – Joseph Chinard, French sculptor who worked in a Neoclassical style (died 1813) * March 4 – Henry Raeburn, Scottish portrait painter (died 1823) * April 26 – Johann Friedric ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Trevor (bishop)
Richard Trevor (30 September 1707 – 9 June 1771) was an English prelate of Welsh descent, who served as Bishop of St Davids from 1744 to 1752 and Bishop of Durham from 1752 until his death. Life Trevor was born at Glynde in Sussex, the family seat of the Trevors who had originated in 16th century Wales. He was educated at Westminster School and at Queen's College, Oxford, and became a fellow of All Souls in 1727. He became a canon of Christ Church, Oxford in 1735. A statue of Bishop Trevor was placed in the Bishop's Chapel at Bishop Auckland in 1775 by Joseph Nollekens. Legacy After his death, the estate of Glynde passed to his elder brother, Robert Hampden-Trevor, 1st Viscount Hampden. Art collection Bishop Trevor was a supporter of the Jewish Naturalisation Act 1753. This interest in Jewish causes is reflected in his purchase in 1756 of 12 paintings by the 17th-century Spanish artist Zurbarán from a series known as ''Jacob and his twelve sons'', depicting the Old Te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaspare Landi
Gaspare Landi (6 January 1756 – 28 February 1830) was an Italian painter of the Neoclassic period, active in Rome and his native city of Piacenza. Biography Landi is said to have been a fun-loving youth, but in 1781 he procured a subsidy to study painting in Rome from patron and distant relative, Marquis Giambattista Landi. At age 25, he moved to Rome to work under Domenico Corvi and Pompeo Battoni. He is considered a rival of Vincenzo Camuccini. Two of his pictures were once in the Pinacoteca at Parma, ''Diomedes and Ulysses bearing off the Palladium'' (1783) and the ''Marriage of Abraham and Sarah''. Above one of the altars in the church of the Santa Casa at Loreto there is a later work by this Landi showing the ''Madonna addolorata''. A major work is his large canvas representing the fainting of Christ as he struggles along over the road to Calvary weighted down by the burden of the Cross, ''Lo Spasimo'' for San Giovanni in Canale at Piacenza. It hung opposite Vincenzo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Clément Balvay
Charles Clément Balvay (23 May 1756, Paris – 23 March 1822, Paris), known as Bervic, was a French engraver mainly working in intaglio and exclusively in burin. Due to an error in transcribing the baptismal register, he is also now known as Jean Guillaume Balvay. He served his first apprenticeship under Jean-Baptiste Le Prince, then left aged 14 for the studio of the engraver Jean-Georges Wille. When he was 18, he won first prize for drawing at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture, of which he was elected a member in 1784. He became a member of the ''Classe de Beaux-Arts'' (Fine Arts Section) of the Institut Impérial de France in 1803 and authored the chapter on engraving for the Institut's reports to the Emperor in 1808 on the progress of the arts, literature and sciences since 1789. He won many prizes and his drawing talents were particularly appreciated. In 1809, Balvay was elected an associate member, fourth class, of the Royal Institute of the Netherlands, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 23
Events Pre-1600 * 1430 – Joan of Arc is captured at the Siege of Compiègne by troops from the Burgundian faction. * 1498 – Girolamo Savonarola is burned at the stake in Florence, Italy. *1533 – The marriage of King Henry VIII to Catherine of Aragon is declared null and void. *1568 – Dutch rebels led by Louis of Nassau, defeat Jean de Ligne, Duke of Arenberg, and his loyalist troops in the Battle of Heiligerlee, opening the Eighty Years' War. 1601–1900 * 1609 – Official ratification of the Second Virginia Charter takes place. *1618 – The Second Defenestration of Prague precipitates the Thirty Years' War. *1706 – John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, defeats a French army under Marshal François de Neufville, duc de Villeroy at the Battle of Ramillies. *1788 – South Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution as the eighth American state. * 1793 – Battle of Famars during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the Fir ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1812 In Art
Events in the year 1812 in Art. Events *The last of the Elgin Marbles are removed from the Parthenon in Athens and shipped to the UK. *Hokusai publishes his first ' (art manual), ''Quick Lessons in Simplified Drawing''. Awards * Prix de Rome (for sculpture) – François Rude Works * Alexander Carse – ''The Arrival of the Country Relations'' *Jacques-Louis David – '' The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries'' * Hortense de Beauharnais – ''The Knight's Departure'' (approximate date) *Marie-Philippe Coupin de la Couperie – '' The Tragic Love of Francesca da Rimini'' *Caspar David Friedrich **'' The Garden Terrace'' **''The Tombs of the Old Heroes'' * Théodore Géricault – ''The Charging Chasseur'' * Francisco Goya **''Portrait of the Duke of Wellington'' (originally painted) **'' Equestrian Portrait of the Duke of Wellington'' **'' The Burial of the Sardine'' (possible date) * Guillaume Guillon-Lethière – '' The Judgement of Paris'' * Jean-Auguste-Domin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Friedrich Dryander
Johann Friedrich Dryander (26 April 1756, in Sankt Johann, Saarbrücken – 29 March 1812, in Sankt Johann, Saarbrücken) was a German painter. Dryander created several portraits of French officers, notably: * ''French troops before Saint-Jean-lès-Sarrebruck'', on display at the Musée historique Lorrain in Nancy, 1804 * Portrait of a general, on display at the Fine Arts museum in Rouens * ''Portrait du Général Bella.'' 1795, Salon-de-Provence * ''Portrait du Citoyen Laboucly, Inspecteur de la Viande.'' 1794, Saarbrücken * ''Portrait of Dominique Joseph Garat'', 1794, Vizille, musée de la Révolution française * ''Portrait du général Jourdan Jourdan may refer to: *Carolyn Jourdan, American author *Claude Jourdan (1803–1873), French zoologist and paleontologist *David W. Jourdan, businessman *Jean-Baptiste Jourdan (1762–1833), French army commander *Murders of Jourdan Bobbish and Jac ... et de son adjudant.'' 1794, Vizille, musée de la Révolution française. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 26
Events Pre-1600 *1336 – Francesco Petrarca (Petrarch) ascends Mont Ventoux. * 1348 – Czech king Karel IV founds the Charles University in Prague, which was later named after him and was the first university in Central Europe. * 1478 – The Pazzi family attack on Lorenzo de' Medici kills his brother Giuliano during High Mass in Florence Cathedral. * 1564 – Playwright William Shakespeare is baptized in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England (date of birth is unknown). 1601–1900 *1607 – The Virginia Company colonists make landfall at Cape Henry. *1721 – A massive earthquake devastates the Iranian city of Tabriz. *1777 – Sybil Ludington, aged 16, rode to alert American colonial forces to the approach of the British regular forces *1794 – Battle of Beaumont during the Flanders Campaign of the War of the First Coalition. * 1802 – Napoleon Bonaparte signs a general amnesty to allow all but about one thousand of the most n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1823 In Art
Events in the year 1823 in Art. Works * John Constable - ''Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop's Grounds'' * Eugène Delacroix ** ''Head of a Woman (Delacroix), Head of a Woman'' ** ''Orphan Girl at the Cemetery'' (c. 1823 or 1824) * Caspar David Friedrich - ''Hutten's Grave'' * Francesco Hayez ** '':File:Francesco Hayez 032.jpg, Antonietta Vitali Sola'' ** '':File:Francesco Hayez 043.jpg, Conte Ninni'' ** '':File:Francesco Hayez 053.jpg, The Last Kiss of Romeo and Juliet'' * George Hayter – ''The Trial of Queen Caroline'' * James Arthur O'Connor – '':File:Oconnoririshtown.jpg, View of Irishtown from Sandymount'' * Rembrandt Peale – approximate date ** '':File:DeWitt Clinton by Rembrandt Peale.jpg, DeWitt Clinton'' ** '':File:Washington Before Yorktown Rembrandt Peale 1823.jpeg, Washington Before Yorktown'' * Gilbert Stuart – Portrait of :File:Gilbert Stuart John Adams.jpg, John Adams (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) * J. M. W. Turner – '':File:Childe harold.jpg, Childe H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Raeburn
Sir Henry Raeburn (; 4 March 1756 – 8 July 1823) was a Scottish portrait painter. He served as Portrait Painter to King George IV in Scotland. Biography Raeburn was born the son of a manufacturer in Stockbridge, on the Water of Leith: a former village now within the city of Edinburgh. He had an older brother, born in 1744, called William Raeburn. His ancestors were believed to have been soldiers, and may have taken the name "Raeburn" from a hill farm in Annandale, held by Sir Walter Scott's family. Orphaned, he was supported by William and placed in Heriot's Hospital, where he received an education. At the age of fifteen he was apprenticed to the goldsmith James Gilliland of Edinburgh, and various pieces of jewellery, mourning rings and the like, adorned with minute drawings on ivory by his hand, still exist. When the medical student Charles Darwin died in 1778, his friend and professor Andrew Duncan took a lock of his student's hair to the jeweller whose apprentice, Raebu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March 4
Events Pre-1600 *AD 51 – Nero, later to become Roman emperor, is given the title '' princeps iuventutis'' (head of the youth). * 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia. * 852 – Croatian Knez Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources. * 938 – Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs. * 1152 – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of Germany. *1238 – The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Rus'. * 1351 – Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam. *1386 – Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland. *1461 – Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his House of Yo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1813 In Art
Events in the year 1813 in Art. Events *June 21 – Battle of Vitoria: The Marquess of Wellington, as victor, reclaims 83 paintings seized by Joseph Bonaparte from the Spanish Royal Collection which he is allowed to retain. Awards * Prix de Rome (for sculpture) – James Pradier Works * Samuel Morse – '' The Dying Hercules'' *Johann Christian Reinhart – '' Blick auf Tivoli'' *J. M. W. Turner – Frosty Morning' *Willem Bartel van der Kool – Piano Practice Interrupted' *Richard Westall – Portrait of Lord Byron * David Wilkie **''Blind Man's Buff'' **'' The Letter of Introduction'' Births *January 2 – Eliseo Sala, Italian painter (died 1879) * March 4 – Wijnand Nuijen, Dutch land- and seascape painter (died 1839) * March 27 – Nathaniel Currier, American illustrator (died 1888) * April 2 – Thomas Frank Heaphy, English miniature painter (died 1873) * April 18 – Franz Ittenbach, German religious painter (died 1879) * July 28 – Mathilda Rotkirch, Finnish pain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neoclassicism
Neoclassicism (also spelled Neo-classicism) was a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity. Neoclassicism was born in Rome largely thanks to the writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, at the time of the rediscovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum, but its popularity spread all over Europe as a generation of European art students finished their Grand Tour and returned from Italy to their home countries with newly rediscovered Greco-Roman ideals. The main Neoclassical movement coincided with the 18th-century Age of Enlightenment, and continued into the early 19th century, laterally competing with Romanticism. In architecture, the style continued throughout the 19th, 20th and up to the 21st century. European Neoclassicism in the visual arts began c. 1760 in opposition to the then-dominant Rococo style. Rococo architecture emphasizes grace, ornamentati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
