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1789 In Art
Events from the year 1789 in art. Events * May 4 – The Boydell Shakespeare Gallery, designed for John Boydell by George Dance the Younger, is opened in London. * James Stuart and Nicholas Revett publish "The Antiquities of Athens" with William Pars's 1765 painting "The Parthenon when it contained a mosque". * Sir Joshua Reynolds loses the sight of his left eye, which forces him into retirement from painting. Works * John Singleton Copley – ''The Defeat of the Floating Batteries at Gibraltar, September 1782'' * Jacques-Louis David – ''The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons'' * Francisco Goya – '' Blind Man's Bluff'' (cartoon for tapestry) * Thomas Lawrence ** Portrait of Queen Charlotte ** ''William Linley'' * Joshua Reynolds ** ''Cupid and Psyche'' ** ''Puck'' (Boydell Shakespeare Gallery) * John Trumbull – ''The Sortie Made by the Garrison of Gibraltar, 1789'' Births * March 7 – Michel Martin Drolling, French painter of history and portraits (died 185 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 4
Events Pre-1600 * 1256 – The Augustinian monastic order is constituted at the Lecceto Monastery when Pope Alexander IV issues a papal bull ''Licet ecclesiae catholicae''. * 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance. *1436 – Assassination of the Swedish rebel (later national hero) Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson * 1471 – Wars of the Roses: The Battle of Tewkesbury: Edward IV defeats a Lancastrian Army and kills Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales. * 1493 – Pope Alexander VI divides the New World between Spain and Portugal along the Line of Demarcation. 1601–1900 *1626 – Dutch explorer Peter Minuit arrives in New Netherland (present day Manhattan Island) aboard the ''See Meeuw''. * 1686 – The Municipality of Ilagan is founded in the Philippines. * 1776 – Rhode Island becomes the first American colony to renounce allegiance to King George III. *1799 – Fourth A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Linley
William Linley (1771–1835) was one of seven musical siblings born to Thomas Linley the elder and his wife Mary Johnson. Early life Born in Bath, Somerset, on 27 January 1771 Linley was the youngest child of Thomas Linley and Mary Johnson (1729–1820). Educated at Harrow and then St Paul's School, additional tutoring in musical disciplines was provided by his father and Carl Friedrich Abel. He joined the British East India Company and was in India 1790-1795 and 1800–1805, holding a writership at their College in Madras. He retired from the company in 1810 and devoted himself to singing, composing glees and songs and writing literature. He bequeathed his collection of family portraits to Dulwich Picture Gallery. The Linley portrait collection: seven musical siblings Image:Gainsborough, Thomas - Thomas Linley the younger - Google Art Project.jpg , Thomas Linley the younger, William's elder brother Image:SamLinley.jpg, Samuel, William's brother File:Ozias Thurston Linley ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace Vernet
Émile Jean-Horace Vernet (30 June 178917 January 1863), more commonly known as simply Horace Vernet, was a French Painting, painter of battles, portraits, and Orientalism, Orientalist subjects. Biography Vernet was born to Carle Vernet, another famous painter, who was himself a son of Claude Joseph Vernet. He was born in the Paris Louvre, while his parents were staying there during the French Revolution. Vernet quickly developed a disdain for the high-minded seriousness of academic French a work which was distinguished by art influenced by Classicism, and decided to paint subjects taken mostly from contemporary life. During his early career, when Napoleon Bonaparte was in power, he began depicting the France, French soldier in a more familiar, vernacular manner rather than in an idealized, Jacques-Louis David, Davidian fashion; he was just twenty when he exhibited the ''Taking of an Entrenched Camp'' Some other of his paintings that represent French soldiers in a more direct, les ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
June 30
Events Pre-1600 * 296 – Pope Marcellinus begins his papacy. * 763 – The Byzantine Empire, Byzantine army of emperor Constantine V defeats the First Bulgarian Empire, Bulgarian forces in the Battle of Anchialus (763), Battle of Anchialus. *1422 – Battle of Arbedo between the duke of Milan and the Switzerland, Swiss Cantons of Switzerland, cantons. *1521 – Spanish forces defeat a combined Kingdom of France, French and Kingdom of Navarre, Navarrese army at the Battle of Noáin during the Spanish conquest of Iberian Navarre. *1559 – King Henry II of France is mortally wounded in a jousting match against Gabriel, comte de Montgomery. *1598 – The Spanish held Castillo San Felipe del Morro in San Juan, Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico having Battle of San Juan (1598), been besieged for fifteen days, surrenders to an English force under George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, Sir George Clifford, Earl of Cumberland. 1601–1900 *1632 – The U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1863 In Art
Events from the year 1863 in art. Events * March – American-born painter James McNeill Whistler settles close to the River Thames in Chelsea, London, where he will live for most of the rest of his life. * June 12 – The Arts Club is founded by Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Frederic Leighton and others in London's Mayfair as a social meeting place for those involved or interested in the creative arts. * The École des Beaux-Arts in Paris becomes independent of the Académie des Beaux-Arts. * Julia Margaret Cameron takes up photography. * Alexander Gilchrist's '' Life of William Blake, "Pictor Ignotus"'' is published in London, edited posthumously by Anne Gilchrist. Exhibitions * May 17 – Opening of first exhibition of the Salon des Refusés in Paris (in which Manet exhibits '' Le déjeuner sur l'herbe'' and two other paintings; Whistler exhibits '' Symphony in White, No. 1: The White Girl'' and Cézanne first exhibits), and coining of the term ''avant-garde''. Works ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
