1881 In Art

Events from the year 1881 in art.

Events

* April – Sixth Impressionist exhibition in Paris, at Nadar's studio.
* August 31 – English painters Thomas Cooper Gotch and Caroline Burland Yates marry at Newlyn.
* The Société des Artistes Français is established, with William-Adolphe Bouguereau as its first president.
* Vincent van Gogh returns from study in Brussels to his parents' home in Etten (Netherlands) where he produces a number of early works, including the start of his series of peasant character studies and still lifes (including '' Still Life with Straw Hat'').

* Art Gallery of South Australia established in Adelaide.
* St. Louis School and Museum of Fine Arts established at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, under the direction of Halsey Ives.
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti's ''Ballads and Sonnets'' published.

Works

* Lawrence Alma-Tadema
** '' In the Tepidarium''
** ''Sappho and Alcaeus''
* Marie Bashkirtseff – '' The Studio''
* Jules Bastien-Lepage – '' Pauvre Fauvette''
* Alfred Boucher – ''La Piété Filiale'' (sculpture)
* Frank Bramley –
A Hopeless Dawn
'
* Lady Butler – ''Scotland Forever!''
* Gustave Caillebotte - '' ''The Bezique Game (La partie de Bésigue)''''
* Paul Cézanne – '' Self-portrait with olive wallpaper''
* Pierre Puvis de Chavannes – '' The Poor Fisherman'' (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
* John Collier
** ''Charles Darwin''
** ''Sir George Jessel''
* Edgar Degas
** ''Little Dancer of Fourteen Years'' (sculpture)
** ''Trotting Horse'' (California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco)
* Stanhope Forbes''
* Aleksander Gierymski – ''Jewess with Oranges''
* Atkinson Grimshaw – '' Shipping on the Clyde''
* Ralph Hedley – '' John Graham Lough in His Studio''
* Jean-Jacques Henner – ''Saint Jerome''
* Max Klinger – ''Paraphrases about the Finding of a Glove'' (etchings, printed)
* Benjamin Williams Leader –
February Fill Dyke
'
* Frederic Leighton
** ''Bianca''
** ''Whispers''
* Juan Luna – ''The Death of Cleopatra''
* Édouard Manet
** '' Dead Eagle Owl''
** ''Le Suicidé''
* Luc-Olivier Merson – ''Nôtre-Dame de Paris''
* Hendrik Willem Mesdag – ''Panorama Mesdag''
* Claude Monet '' Waves Breaking''
* Albert Joseph Moore
** ''Blossoms''
** ''Yellow Marguerites''
* Hjalmar Munsterhjelm – ''Woodland Pool by Moonlight''
* Giovanni Muzzioli – ''In the Temple of Bacchus''
* Jean-François Raffaëlli –
Les déclassés (The Absinthe Drinkers)
'
* Vinnie Ream – '' Admiral David G. Farragut'' (bronze, Washington, D.C.)

* Pierre-Auguste Renoir
** ''Bay of Naples, Evening''
** ''Blonde Bather'' (first version)
** ''Luncheon of the Boating Party''
** ''Pink and Blue''
* Ilya Repin
** '' Polina Strepetova as Lizaveta''
** Portrait of Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti – '' Found'' (work finished but never completed)
* Augustus Saint-Gaudens – '' Admiral David Glasgow Farragut'' (bronze, Manhattan)
* John Singer Sargent – '' Dr. Samuel Jean Pozzi at Home''
* Henryk Siemiradzki – '' The Sword Dance''
* William Stott of Oldham – ''Le Passeur'' ("The Ferry", Tate Britain)
* Henry Jones Thaddeus – '' La retour du bracconier (The Wounded Poacher)''
* James Tissot – '' Goodbye, on the Mersey''
* Viktor Vasnetsov
** '' Alenushka''
** '' Three Tsarevnas of the Underground Kingdom''
* James McNeill Whistler – ''Portrait of Lady Meux'' in two completed versions:
** ''Arrangement in Black, No. 5''
** ''Harmony in Pink and Grey''

Births

* January 4 – Wilhelm Lehmbruck, German sculptor (suicide 1919)
* January 5 – Pablo Gargallo, Aragonese painter and sculptor (died 1934)
* February 4 – Fernand Léger, French painter (died 1955)
* February 11
** Carlo Carrà, Italian painter (died 1966)
** Robert Borlase Smart painter and critic (died 1947)
* April 10 – William John Leech, Irish painter (died 1968)
* April 16 – Fortunino Matania, Italian-born illustrator and war artist (died 1963)
* July 12 – Natalia Goncharova, Russian theatrical costume and set designer, painter and illustrator (died 1962)
* July 28 – Léon Spilliaert, Belgian symbolist painter and graphic artist (died 1946)
* July 29 – Jessie Traill, Australian printmaker (died 1967)
* August 4 – Wenzel Hablik, Bohemian painter, graphic artist, designer (died 1934)
* October 4 - René Gimpel, French artbdealer (died 1945)
* October 25 – Pablo Picasso, Spanish painter, draughtsman and sculptor (died 1973)
* December 8 – Albert Gleizes, French painter (died 1953)
* December 31 – Max Pechstein, German painter (died 1955)
* ''uncertain''
** William Conor, Irish painter (died 1968)
** Nazmi Ziya Güran)

Deaths

* January 3 – Anna McNeill Whistler, "Whistler's Mother" (born 1804)
* January 24 – James Collinson, English Pre-Raphaelite painter (born 1825)
* February 9 – Jacques-Édouard Gatteaux, French sculptor and medal engraver (born 1788)
* March 11 – Thomas Brigstocke, Welsh portrait painter (born 1809)
* May 24 – Samuel Palmer, English painter, etcher and lithographer (born 1805)
* July 25 – Edward Charles Williams, English landscape painter (born 1807)
* December 6 – Thomas Skinner, English etcher (poisoned; born 1819)
* December 13 – John Quidor, American painter (born 1801)
* December 14 – Berndt Godenhjelm, Finnish painter (born 1799)
* December 21 - Francesco Hayez, Italian historical, portrait and political painter (born 1791)

References

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