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1766 In Art
Events from the year 1766 in art. Events * July 19 – A baronetcy is created for British sculptor Henry Cheere. * England's oldest surviving Georgian theatre is constructed in Stockton-on-Tees. * The Drottningholm Palace Theatre is reopened as an opera house in Stockholm, Sweden, in its surviving form, designed by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz. * Denis Diderot's ''Essais sur la peinture'' is published. Works * Thomas Gainsborough – Portrait of David Garrick with a bust of Shakespeare (probably originally painted; lost) * Jean-Antoine Houdon – ''Bruno of Cologne'' (sculpture for Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in Rome) * Maruyama Ōkyo – ''Crows'' * Allan Ramsay – '' Portrait of David Hume'' * Joseph Wright of Derby – ''A Philosopher Lecturing on the Orrery'' Births * March 1 – Johann Conrad Felsing, German topographer and engraver using stippling (died 1819) * March 2 – Thomas Henry, French painter and art patron (died 1836) * March 16 – Jean-Frédà ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
July 19
Events Pre-1600 *AD 64 – The Great Fire of Rome causes widespread devastation and rages on for six days, destroying half of the city. * 484 – Leontius, Roman usurper, is crowned Eastern emperor at Tarsus (modern Turkey). He is recognized in Antioch and makes it his capital. *711 – Umayyad conquest of Hispania: Battle of Guadalete: Umayyad forces under Tariq ibn Ziyad defeat the Visigoths led by King Roderic. * 939 – Battle of Simancas: King Ramiro II of León defeats the Moorish army under Caliph Abd-al-Rahman III near the city of Simancas. * 998 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Battle of Apamea: Fatimids defeat a Byzantine army near Apamea. * 1333 – Wars of Scottish Independence: Battle of Halidon Hill: The English win a decisive victory over the Scots. * 1544 – Italian War of 1542–46: The first Siege of Boulogne begins. * 1545 – The Tudor warship ''Mary Rose'' sinks off Portsmouth; in 1982 the wreck is salvaged in one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
April 1
Events Pre-1600 * 33 – According to one historian's account, Jesus Christ's Last Supper is held. * 527 – Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne. *1081 – Alexios I Komnenos overthrows the Byzantine emperor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, and, after his troops spend three days extensively looting Constantinople, is formally crowned on April 4. *1572 – In the Eighty Years' War, the ''Watergeuzen'' capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic. 1601–1900 *1789 – In New York City, the United States House of Representatives achieves its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first Speaker. * 1833 – The Convention of 1833, a political gathering of settlers in Mexican Texas to help draft a series of petitions to the Mexican government, begins in San Felipe de Austin. * 1865 – Ameri ... [...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] |
Jean-Frédéric Waldeck
Jean-Frédéric Maximilien de Waldeck (March 16, 1766? – April 30, 1875) was a French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer. He was a man of talent and accomplishment, but his love of self-promotion and refusal to let the truth get in the way of a good story leave some aspects of his life in mystery. At various times Waldeck said that he was born in Paris, Prague, or Vienna, and at other times claimed to be a German, Austrian or British citizen. He often claimed the title of count and occasionally that of duke or baron, but these cannot be verified. Waldeck said he had traveled to South Africa at age 19 and thereafter had begun a career in exploration. He claimed to have returned to France and studied art as a student of Jacques-Louis David. He said he had traveled to Egypt with Napoleon's expedition. None of this has been independently verified; indeed most of Waldeck's autobiography before about 1820 (including his given birthdate) is undocumented and his name is ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March 16
Events Pre-1600 * 934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang. *1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York. * 1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse to recant are burnt to death after the Fall of Montségur. 1601–1900 * 1621 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset." *1660 – The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament. * 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29. * 1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point. *1815 – Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands. * 1872 – The Wanderers F.C. win the first FA Cup, the oldest football co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1836 In Art
Events from the year 1836 in art. Events * June – Hablot K. Browne ("Phiz") begins illustrating ''The Pickwick Papers'' following the suicide of the original illustrator, Robert Seymour. * David Wilkie is granted a knighthood. Works * Thomas Cole – ''View from Mount Holyoke, Northampton, Massachusetts, after a Thunderstorm'' ''(The Oxbow)'' * Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot – ''Diana Surprised By Actaeon'' * Paul Delaroche – ''Charles I Insulted by Cromwell's Soldiers'' * Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin – ''Study (Young Male Nude Seated beside the Sea)'' * Caspar David Friedrich – '' Seashore by Moonlight'' * Joseph von Führich – ''Jacob encountering Rachel with her father's herd'' * Christian Albrecht Jensen – ''Hans Christian Andersen'' * Antoine Wiertz – ''Les Grecs et les Troyens se disputant le corps de Patrocle'' * Sir David Wilkie – ''Napoleon and Pius VII at Fontainebleau'' * Matthew Cotes Wyatt – Bronze equestrian statue of George III Births * January 8 â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Henry (French Artist)
Bon-Thomas Henry (1766 in Cherbourg, France – 1836 in Cherbourg) was a French painter and patron of the arts. After studies in his hometown, Henry was forced while traveling to take shelter during a storm at Bordeaux, where he settled and became a partner with a merchant who sent him to Saint-Domingue. He returned to France after the Haitian Revolution, and learned the restoration of paintings from fellow artists. He was a pupil of Jean-Baptiste Regnault Jean-Baptiste Regnault (9 October 1754 – 12 November 1829) was a French painter. Biography Regnault was born in Paris, and began life at sea in a merchant vessel. At the age of fifteen his talent attracted attention, and he was sent to I .... He augmented his skill in restoration with expertise learned during travels to Italy, Belgium, and England. This led to his gaining a position as an expert commissioner with the Royal Museums. The position facilated his amassing a significant personal collection of ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March 2
Events Pre-1600 * 537 – Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action outside the Flaminian Gate; he and a detachment of his ''bucellarii'' are almost cut off. * 986 – Louis V becomes the last Carolingian king of West Francia after the death of his father, Lothaire. * 1331 – fall of Nicaea to the Ottoman Turks after a siege. *1444 – Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë. * 1458 – George of PodÄ›brady is chosen as the king of Bohemia. * 1476 – Burgundian Wars: The Old Swiss Confederacy hands Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, a major defeat in the Battle of Grandson in Canton of Neuchâtel. * 1484 – The College of Arms is formally incorporated by Royal Charter signed by King Richard III of England. * 1498 – Vasco da Gama's fleet visits the Island of Mozambique. 1601–1900 * 1657 – The Great Fire ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1819 In Art
Events in the year 1819 in Art. Events * November - The Museo del Prado opens to the public as the Royal Museum of Paintings and Sculptures in Madrid. * Francisco Goya begins the series of "Black Paintings", working directly onto the walls of his dining and sitting rooms at his home, Quinta del Sordo, near Madrid. * The Liverpool Royal Institution in England acquires 37 paintings from the collection of William Roscoe, who has to sell his collection following the failure of his banking business, nucleus of what becomes the Walker Art Gallery collection. Works * Washington Allston – ''Florimell's Flight'' * John Constable – ''The Gathering Storm'' * Marie Ellenrieder – '' Self-portrait as a painter'' * Caspar David Friedrich – '' On a Sailing Ship'' * Théodore Géricault – ''The Raft of the Medusa'' (''Le Radeau de la Méduse'') * Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson – ''Pygmalion and Galatea'' * Francisco Goya ** ''The Madhouse'' ** ''A Procession of Flagellants'' * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stippling
Stippling is the creation of a pattern simulating varying degrees of solidity or shading by using small dots. Such a pattern may occur in nature and these effects are frequently emulated by artists. Art In printmaking, stipple engraving is a technique using flicks of the burin to build up the image in short lines or dots, often combined with conventional linear engraving. In engraved glass a similar stipple technique has often been popular. In a drawing or painting, the dots are made of pigment of a single colour, applied with a pen or brush; the denser the dots, the darker the apparent shade—or lighter, if the pigment is lighter than the surface. This is similar to—but distinct from—pointillism, which uses dots of different colours to simulate blended colours. Botany In description of flora species, a stippling is a kind of pattern, especially in the case of flowering plants, produced in nature that occur on flower petals and sepals. These are similar to the dot pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johann Conrad Felsing
Johann Conrad Felsing (1 March 1766 – 3 December 1819) was a German engraving, engraver. Felsing was born at Giessen in 1766, and learned the elements of his art in Darmstadt. He engraved many portraits in the Stippling, dotted manner, but was more particularly distinguished by his topographical works, of which the last and best was the military plan of Fortress of Mainz, Mayence of 1815. He died at Darmstadt in 1819. He was the father of Johann Heinrich Felsing, a celebrated copper-plate printer, who died in 1875, and of Georg Jakob Felsing, the eminent engraver. References * 1766 births 1819 deaths 18th-century German engravers 18th-century German male artists People from Giessen {{Germany-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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