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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] |
Edward Lear
Edward Lear (12 May 1812 – 29 January 1888) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, who is known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limerick (poetry), limericks, a form he popularised. His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to make illustrations of birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his journeys, which he reworked later, sometimes as plates for his travel books; and as a (minor) illustrator of Alfred, Lord Tennyson's poems. As an author, he is known principally for his popular nonsense collections of poems, songs, short stories, botanical drawings, recipes and alphabets. He also composed and published twelve musical settings of Tennyson's poetry. Biography Early years Lear was born into a middle-class family at Holloway, London, Holloway, North London, the penultimate of 21 children (and youngest to survive) of Ann Clark Skerrett and Jeremiah Lear, a stoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1920 In Art
Events from the year 1920 in art. Events * February 1 – The National Art Gallery of Georgia opens in Tbilisi. * March 17 – The Edith Cavell Memorial, by George Frampton, is unveiled in London. * March 27 – Society of Wood Engravers founded in the United Kingdom. * June 30–August 25 – The first Dadaist Fair is held in Berlin (Tempelhof). The Cologne group is formed by Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Alfred Grünwald. * August 5 – Publication of the 'Realistic Manifesto', a Constructivist text, by Naum Gabo with his brother Anton Pevsner in Moscow. * November 7 – The "mass action" ''The Storming of the Winter Palace'', directed by Nikolai Evreinov, is staged outside the Winter Palace in Petrograd. *''unknown dates'' ** Katherine Dreier, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp form Société Anonyme. ** Bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada set up the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall. ** The Heckscher Museum of Art is established in Huntington, New York. ** The Latvian Museum of Foreign Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sir Edmund Elton, 8th Baronet
Sir Edmund Harry Elton, 8th Baronet (3 May 1846 – 17 July 1920) was an English inventor and studio potter noted for his production of Elton Ware at the Clevedon Elton Sunflower Pottery. He was the son of the painter Edmund William Elton and Lucy Maria, daughter of the Rev. John Morgan Rice. Lucy Maria died 16 May 1846, shortly after Edmund Harry's birth. Edmund William then married Clementine Sandryk of Florence on 2 December 1859, producing two daughters: # Mina Antoinetta Beatrice (died 21 June 1876) married (17 April 1873) Robert Frederick Boyle (13 June 1841 – 15 May 1883) # Alma Marion Edmund Harry Elton was educated at Bradfield College and Jesus College, Cambridge. In 1868 Edmund Harry married his cousin Mary Agnes, second daughter of Sir Arthur Hallam Elton and produced two sons and three daughters – Ambrose born in 1869, Kathleen Agnes Rhoda, Winifred Lucy, Bernard Arthur, and Angela Mary. He was the nephew of Sir Arthur Elton, 7th Baronet, and inherited both Cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
May 3
Events Pre-1600 * 752 – Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, assumes the throne. * 1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties. *1491 – Kongo monarch Nkuwu Nzinga is baptised by Portuguese missionaries, adopting the baptismal name of João I. *1568 – Angered by the brutal onslaught of Spanish troops at Fort Caroline, a French force burns the San Mateo fort and massacres hundreds of Spaniards. 1601–1900 * 1616 – Treaty of Loudun ends a French civil war. * 1715 – A total solar eclipse is visible across northern Europe and northern Asia, as predicted by Edmond Halley to within four minutes accuracy. * 1791 – The Constitution of May 3 (the first modern constitution in Europe) is proclaimed by the Sejm of Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. * 1802 – Washington, D.C. is incorporated as a city after Congress abolishes the Board ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1901 In Art
Events from the year 1901 in art. Events * March 12 – Whitechapel Gallery, designed by Charles Harrison Townsend, opens in London as one of the first publicly funded galleries for temporary exhibitions in the city. * March 17 – Paris: Van Gogh's paintings shown at Bernheim Gallery. * May 11 – The Kraków Society of Friends of Fine Arts inaugurates its Palace of Art. * June 24 – The first exhibit by Pablo Picasso in Paris (19 years old) – The Blue Period. * Julien-Auguste Hervé exhibits his paintings in Paris under the title ''Expressionismes''.Willett, John (1970). ''Expressionism''. New York: World University Library. p. 25; Sheppard, Richard (1976). "German Expressionism", in ''Modernism: 1890–1930'', ed. Bradbury & McFarlane, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books. p. 274. * The " Red Rose Girls" rent the Red Rose Inn in Villanova, Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia Main Line. * Swedish-born painter Carl Oscar Borg enters the United States as a stowaway. Works * Si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Greenaway
Catherine Greenaway (17 March 18466 November 1901) was an English Victorian artist and writer, known for her children's book illustrations. She received her education in graphic design and art between 1858 and 1871 from the Finsbury School of Art, the South Kensington School of Art, the Heatherley School of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art. She began her career designing for the burgeoning holiday card market, producing Christmas and Valentine's cards. In 1879 wood-block engraver and printer, Edmund Evans, printed ''Under the Window'', an instant best-seller, which established her reputation. Her collaboration with Evans continued throughout the 1880s and 1890s. The depictions of children in imaginary 18th-century costumes in a Queen Anne style were extremely popular in England and internationally, sparking the Kate Greenaway style. Within a few years of the publication of ''Under the Window'' Greenaway's work was imitated in England, Germany and the United States. Child ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
March 17
Events Pre-1600 * 45 BC – In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda. * 180 – Commodus becomes sole emperor of the Roman Empire at the age of eighteen, following the death of his father, Marcus Aurelius. * 455 – Petronius Maximus becomes, with support of the Roman Senate, emperor of the Western Roman Empire; he forces Licinia Eudoxia, the widow of his predecessor, Valentinian III, to marry him. * 1337 – Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy in England. * 1400 – Turko-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus. 1601–1900 * 1776 – American Revolution: The British Army evacuates Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city. * 1805 – The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King of Italy. * 1824 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Frederic Watts
George Frederic Watts (23 February 1817, in London – 1 July 1904) was a British painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. He said "I paint ideas, not things." Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as ''Hope'' and ''Love and Life''. These paintings were intended to form part of an epic symbolic cycle called the "House of Life", in which the emotions and aspirations of life would all be represented in a universal symbolic language. Early life and education Watts was born in Marylebone in central London on the birthday of George Frederic Handel (after whom he was named), to the second wife of a poor piano-maker. Delicate in health and with his mother dying while he was still young, he was home-schooled by his father in a conservative interpretation of Christianity as well as via the classics such as the ''Iliad.'' The former put him off conventional religion for life, while the latter was a continual influence on his art. He s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Strazza
Giovanni Strazza (1818–1875) was an Italian sculptor who was born in Milan, Italy. He studied at Brera Academy in Milan and then worked in Rome between 1840 and 1858. He returned to Milan where he taught at his alma mater from 1860 to 1875, passing the "Sculpture Chair" to Giosuè Argenti.Berresford, Sandra, ''Italian Memorial Sculpture 1820-1940: A Legacy of Love'', Frances Lincoln Limited, London, 2004 p 55 Work * Strazza's most well known work is ''The Veiled Virgin''. * A replica (2005) of Strazza's '' L'Audace Righetto'' stands on the Janiculum Hill in Roma; the original (1851) is in the Palazzo Litta The Palazzo Litta, also known as the Palazzo Arese-Litta, is a Baroque structure in Milan, northern Italy, opposite San Maurizio al Monastero Maggiore, and dating from the period of Spanish rule of the city. In 2018, it served as a cultural cent ... in Milano *''Ishmael Abandoned in the Desert'', a replica of which from 1850 is exhibited at the Gallery of Modern Art in Mila ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eliseo Sala
Eliseo Sala (2 January 1813–24 June 1879) was an Italian painter. Sala was born in Milan, and a student between 1832 and 1838 at the Brera Academy under Luigi Sabatelli. He went to Venice and then in Rome, where he arrived in 1840 and became friends with Francesco Coghetti. He was not only a dedicated artist of genre paintings Genre painting (or petit genre), a form of genre art, depicts aspects of everyday life by portraying ordinary people engaged in common activities. One common definition of a genre scene is that it shows figures to whom no identity can be attached ... and historical subjects, but especially in painting realistic portraits in which he excelled and had a good reputation. Many of his works are preserved in several national museums including the Modern Art Gallery and the Pinacoteca di Brera, both in Milan. Sala died in Triuggio on 24 June 1879. SourcesEliseo Sala Brief Bio [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
