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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] |
Westmorland (ship)
The ''Westmorland'' or ''Westmoreland'' was a 26-gun British privateer frigate, operating in the Mediterranean Sea against French shipping in retaliation for France's opposition to Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War. Service history The most notable incident in the life of the ''Westmorland'' occurred shortly after she sailed for Britain from Livorno under Captain Michael Wallace late in 1778, carrying a large monetary payment for her inbound cargo of salt cod from Newfoundland (Livorno was a trade hub for this commodity), food goods, and 57 crates of artistic objects collected by Grand Tourists such as the Duke of Gloucester, Sir John Henderson and the Duke of Norfolk. In January 1779, she was given chase by four French ships, comprising two men-of-war, the ''Caton'' (64) and the ''Destin'' (74), and two smaller vessels. Wallace attempted to outsail them but, outgunned as he was, soon felt he had little option but to allow the French to board his ship. She wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 31
Events Pre-1600 * 455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome. * 1223 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River: Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat Kievan Rus' and Cumans. * 1293 – Mongol invasion of Java was a punitive expedition against King Kertanegara of Singhasari, who had refused to pay tribute to the Yuan and maimed one of its ministers. However, it ended with failure for the Mongols. Regarded as establish City of Surabaya *1578 – King Henry III lays the first stone of the Pont Neuf (''New Bridge''), the oldest bridge of Paris, France. 1601–1900 *1610 – The pageant '' London's Love to Prince Henry'' on the River Thames celebrates the creation of Prince Henry as Prince of Wales. * 1669 – Citing poor eyesight as a reason, Samuel Pepys records the last event in his diary. *1775 – American Revolution: The Mecklenburg Resolves are adopted in the Prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1860 In Art
Events from the year 1860 in art. Events * February 28 – The Artists Rifles is established as a volunteer corps of the British Army with headquarters at Burlington House in London. * May 23 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti marries his model Elizabeth Siddal in Hastings and they depart on honeymoon to Paris. * December 30 – ''Towarzystwo Zachęty do Sztuk Pięknych'' ("Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts") holds its first meeting in Warsaw. * Founding of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. Awards * Grand Prix de Rome, painting: Ernest Michel * Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture: Barthélemy Raymond * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Joseph Louis Achille Joyau * Grand Prix de Rome, music: Emile Paladilhe Works * Lawrence Alma-Tadema – '' A Bargain: Brabant Women'' * Paul-Jacques-Aimé Baudry – ''Charlotte Corday'' * Edward Burne-Jones – ''Clara von Bork'' and ''Sidonia von Bork'' * Paul Cézanne - ''The Four Seasons'' * Edgar Degas – '' Young Spartans Exercising'' (begun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rembrandt Peale
Rembrandt Peale (February 22, 1778 – October 3, 1860) was an American artist and museum keeper. A prolific portrait painter, he was especially acclaimed for his likenesses of presidents George Washington and Thomas Jefferson. Peale's style was influenced by French Neoclassicism after a stay in Paris in his early thirties. Biography Rembrandt Peale was born the third of six surviving children (11 had died) to his mother, Rachel Brewer, and father, Charles Willson Peale, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, on February 22, 1778. The father, Charles, also a notable artist, named him after the noted 17th-century Dutch painter and engraver Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn. His father also taught all of his children, including Raphaelle Peale, Rubens Peale and Titian Peale, to paint scenery and portraiture, and tutored Rembrandt in the arts and sciences. Rembrandt began drawing at the age of eight. A year after his mother's death and the remarriage of his father, Peale left the school o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1856 In Art
Events from the year 1856 in art. Events * May 1 – Charles Lutwidge Dodgson ('Lewis Carroll') takes up photography as a hobby * August 25 – Dante Gabriel Rossetti first encounters Fanny Cornforth (Sarah Cox) in a London pleasure garden; the following day he sketches her head in his studio for the figure of a prostitute in his unfinished painting ''Found (Rossetti), Found'' * December 2 – The National Portrait Gallery, London, is established * December 8 – Édouard Manet opens his own studio * Owen Jones (architect), Owen Jones publishes ''The Grammar of Ornament'', illustrated in chromolithography Awards * Austrian Imperial Prize for Sculpture – Joseph Boehm Works * Ivan Aivazovsky – '':File:Aivazovsky - Strong Wind.jpg, A Strong Wind'' * William-Adolphe Bouguereau – ''La Danse (Bouguereau), La Danse'' ''(approximate date)'' * Ford Madox Brown – ''Take your Son, Sir!'' (unfinished) * Philip Hermogenes Calderon – '':File:Calderon Broken Vows.jpg, Broken Vows'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franz Ludwig Catel
Franz Ludwig Catel (22 February 1778 – 19 December 1856) was a German painter. He spent most of his career in Rome. Biography Catel was born at Berlin in 1778. He began his artistic career by carving in wood, and then designed book illustrations, including, in 1799, ten plates for Goethe's ''Hermann and Dorothea''. He then worked in Indian ink and water-colours, producing in 1806 a large piece in the latter medium, representing ''The Death of Nicholas of Bernau'', which gained him admission into the Berlin Academy. In 1807 he went to Paris, where he studied oil painting. The year 1812 found him at Rome, where his education as an artist was much advanced by his connection with Koch, Overbeck, Schadow, and Cornelius. His inclination led him more especially in the direction of painting landscapes with prominent architectural details or figures in the foreground often moving into the territory of genre painting. He attached himself to the new classic school of landscape, l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
February 22
Events Pre-1600 * 1076 – Having received a letter during the Lenten synod of 14–20 February demanding that he abdicate, Pope Gregory VII excommunicates Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor. * 1316 – The Battle of Picotin, between Ferdinand of Majorca and the forces of Matilda of Hainaut, ends in victory for Ferdinand. *1371 – Robert II becomes King of Scotland, beginning the Stuart dynasty. * 1495 – King Charles VIII of France enters Naples to claim the city's throne. 1601–1900 * 1632 – Ferdinando II de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany, the dedicatee, receives the first printed copy of Galileo's ''Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems'' . * 1651 – St. Peter's Flood: A storm surge floods the Frisian coast, drowning 15,000 people. *1744 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Battle of Toulon causes several Royal Navy captains to be court-martialed, and the Articles of War to be amended. * 1797 – The last Invasion of Britain b ... [...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] |
Charles Alexandre Lesueur
Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1 January 1778 in Le Havre – 12 December 1846 in Le Havre) was a French Natural history, naturalist, artist, and explorer. He was a prolific natural-history collector, gathering many type specimens in Australia, Southeast Asia, and North America, and was also responsible for describing numerous species, including the spiny softshell turtle (''Apalone spinifera''), smooth softshell turtle (''Apalone mutica, A. mutica''), and common map turtle (''Graptemys geographica''). Both Mount Lesueur and Lesueur National Park in Western Australia are named in his honor. Early life Charles Alexandre Lesueur was born on January 1, 1778, to Jean-Baptiste Denis Lesueur and Charlotte Thieullent. Charlotte died when Charles was sixteen years old, and Charles' maternal grandmother took care of him and his siblings. Charles attended the Collège du Havre and possibly the Ecole publique des mathématiques et d'hydrographie. He was in military service in a cadet bat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
January 1
January 1 or 1 January is the first day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 364 days remaining until the end of the year (365 in leap years). This day is also known as New Year's Day since the day marks the beginning of the year. __TOC__ Events Pre-1600 *153 BC – For the first time, Roman consuls begin their year in office on January 1. *45 BC – The Julian calendar takes effect as the civil calendar of the Roman Empire, establishing January 1 as the new date of the new year. *42 BC – The Roman Senate posthumously deifies Julius Caesar. * 193 – The Senate chooses Pertinax against his will to succeed Commodus as Roman emperor. * 404 – Saint Telemachus tries to stop a gladiatorial fight in a Roman amphitheatre, and is stoned to death by the crowd. This act impresses the Christian Emperor Honorius, who issues a historic ban on gladiatorial fights. * 417 – Emperor Honorius forces Galla Placidia into marriage to Cons ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tribuna Of The Uffizi (painting)
''The Tribuna of the Uffizi'' (1772–1778) by Johan Zoffany is a painting of the north-east section of the Tribuna room in the Uffizi in Florence, Italy. The painting is part of the United Kingdom's Royal Collection. Production Beginning in 1764, the German-born painter Johan Zoffany received numerous commissions from the Hanoverian King George III and his consort, Queen Charlotte. The queen ordered Zoffany to paint "the Florence Gallery" (the Galleria degli Uffizi), for which the artist would be paid £300.Royal Collection from Shawe-Taylor 2009 In the summer of 1772, Zoffany left London for Florence, where he met Felton Hervey, an art collector and friend of the king and queen, who figures prominently in the painting. Zoffany worked on the painting through late 1777 and returned to England in 1779. By this time Hervey had died. The painting depicts the Tribuna of the Uffizi, an octagonal gallery designed by Bernardo Buontalenti in 1584. The most important ancient and Renaissan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
