Chronography of Art (Visual)
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25 October 2006, Emilio Vedova, Italian artist,
died (born 9 August 1919)
22 August 2006, Sandra Blow, abstract painter,
died (born 14 September 1925)
10 June 2006, Kenneth Jack, artist, died (born
5 October 1924).
31 August 2006, Two stolen masterpieces by
Edvard Munch,
including his best known work, The Scream, were recovered in Norway.
26 August 2006, Vladimir Tretchkoff, artist,
died (born 13 December 1913)
3 May 2006, Karel Appel, artist, died (born
25 April 1921)
23 April 2006, William Gottlieb, photographer,
died (born 28 January 1917).
22 October 2005, Pierre Fernandez, pioneer of New
Realism art, died (born 17 November 1928)
22 April 2005, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, sculptor,
died (born 7 March 1924).
30 December 2003, Nora Heysen,
artist, died.
11 November 2005, Lord Lichfield,
photographer, died.
29 September 2005, Patrick
Caulfield, painter, died (born 29 January 1936)
2 May 2005, Mark Boyle, artist, died (born
11 May 1934)
10 March 2005, Norman Adams, artist, died (born
9 February 1927).
14 January 2005, Conroy Maddox, surrealist
painter, died (born 12 December 1912).
3 January 2005, Will Esner, strip cartoonist,
died (born 6 March 1917).
14 March 2003, Jack Goldstein, artist, died.
15 August 1999, Sir Hugh Casson, artist, died.
3 November 1998, Bob Kane, cartoonist, creator of
Batman, died.
29 September 1997, Roy
Lichtenstein, artist, died.
28 November
1995, Britain�s Turner Prize for Contemporary Art,
worth �20,000, was awarded to Damien Hurst for his four glass tanks containing the
divided carcass of a cow and its calf, entitled Mother and Child Divided.
7 May 1994, Clement
Greenberg, art
critic, died.
8 November 1993, In Stockholm, Sweden, thieves cut through
the roof of the Museum of Modern Art and stole artworks, some by Picasso and
Braque. The value of the uninsured paintings was estimated at US$ 60 million.
27 July 1992, Max Dupain, photographer, died.
27 March 1992, Martin Engelman,
Dutch
artist, died.
9 March 1989, Robert
Maplethorpe, photographer, died.
23 January 1989. Death of Spanish
surrealist painter Salvador Dali. He was aged 78,
and had lived as a recluse since his wife, Gala, died in 1982. Art collectors
were troubled by revelations that Dali had signed blank canvasses for
others� to paint.
12 August 1988, US artist Jean Michel Basquiat died of a
drugs overdose, aged 27.
17 April 1988, Louise Nevelson, sculptor born in Kiev, Russia, in
23 September 1900, died in New York.
11 December 1987, At Christies auction house, London, Charlie
Chaplin�s cane and bowler sold for �82,500, and his boots for
�38,500.
22 February 1987, Andy Warhol, American pop artist famous for
his pictures of soup cans, died. He was born on 6 August 1926 to Czechoslovak
immigrants in Pittsburgh.
31 August 1986. UK sculptor
Henry Moore,
born 1898, died aged 88.
23 January 1986, Joseph Beuys, German
performance artist, died aged 64.
13 April 1985, Oscar Nemon, Croatian
sculptor, died aged 79.
28 March 1985, Marc Chagall, French painter
(born 7 July 1887 to poor Jewish parents in Vitebsk, Russia), died in St Paul
de Vence. He had moved to Berlin in 1922, and then to Paris in 1932. In 1941 he
fled to the US to escape
the advancing Nazis, returning to France
after World War Two ended.
3 March 1983, Herge, creator of Tintin, died.
15 May 1980, Len
Lye, artist and sculptor, died.
29 February 1980, Gil
Evgreen, artist, died.
17 February 1980, Graham Sutherland, English
artist, died aged 76.
18 January 1980, Cecil Beaton, English designer and
photographer, died aged 76.
5 November 1979, Al Capp, cartoonist, died.
6 May 1979, Bernard Leach, British studio pottery artist,
died aged 92.
13 November 1978, US illustrator Norman Rockwell died.
25 December 1976, Sir Ernest Daryl Lindsay, Australian artist,
died (born 31 December 1889).
11 November 1976, Alexander Calder, US
sculptor, died aged 78.
18 November 1976, Man Ray, US artist, died aged 86.
22 October 1976, Edward Burra, English painter, died aged 71.
23 February 1976, The painter
L S (Lawrence Stephen) Lowry, noted
for his matchstick people, died in Glossop, Derbyshire.
20 May 1975, Barbara Hepworth, English artist, died aged
72.
26 May 1975, Stuntman Evel Knievel suffered severe spinal injuries
whilst attempting to jump 13 buses in his car.
19 January 1975, Thomas Hart Benton, US painter, died in Kansas
City, Missouri..
19 January 1974, Edward Seago, British artist, died aged 63.
8 April 1973. Spanish painter Pablo Picasso died of a heart
attack, aged 91. He was famous for his Cubist style.
29 May 1970, Eva Hesse, artist, died.
25 February 1970, Mark Rothko, painter, aged 66, committed
suicide in New York.
21 November 1969, Norman Lindsay,
artist, died.
12 June 1969, Alexander Deyneka:
Ukrainian artist (born 1899), died.
14 March 1969, Ben Shahn, painter, died in New York aged 70.
15 January 1969, Theodor Werner, German painter, died aged 82.
17 June 1966, Jean Arp, painter, died in Basel
aged 78.
23 May 1965, David Smith,
US sculptor, died aged 59.
11 October 1963, Jean Cocteau, French artist (born 1889) died.
20 April 1963, Rachel Whiteread, sculptor, was
born.
13 May 1962, Franz Kline, painter, died in
New York, USA, aged 52.
16 January 1962, Ivan Mestrovi, sculptor, died.
13 December 1961, Grandma Moses, US painter,
died aged 101.
21 October 1959, The Solomon R Guggenheim Art Museum, New York, USA, opened.
19 August 1959, Sir Jacob Epstein, sculptor, died in London,
England (born 10 November 1880 in New York City).
6 July 1959, German artist George Grosz died.
23 October 1958, Belgian cartoonist Peyo introduced The Smurfs.
25 November 1957, Diego
Rivera, painter, died in Mexico City aged
70.
8 June 1957, Scott
Adams, cartoonist, was born.
16 March 1957, Constantin Brancusi, sculptor, died in Paris.
11 August 1956, Jackson Pollock, painter, died in a car
accident in Long Island, New York, USA, aged 44.
15 April 1956, Emil Nolde, German-Danish
painter, died aged 88.
17 August 1955, Fernand Leger, painter, died in Gif sur
Yvette, France, aged 74.
16 March 1955, Nicolas de Stael, painter, died in Antibes
aged 41.
15 January 1955, Yves Tanguy, painter, died.
10 September 1954, Painter Andre Derain died in Chambourcy,
France, aged 74.
13 July 1954, Frida Kahlo, painter, died.
15 February 1954, Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, was born.
30 November 1953, Francis Picabia,
painter, died in Paris aged 74.
11 October 1953, James Earle Fraser, US sculptor,
died aged 76
1 October 1953, John Martin, painter, died in Addison, Maine,
USA.
23 March 1953, Raoul Dufy, French painter (born 3 June 1877
in Le Havre, France) died in Forcalquiers, France.
7 September 1951, Painter John F Sloan died in Hanover,
New Hampshire, USA, aged 80.
28 July 1951, Walt Disney�s cartoon Alice in Wonderland was released.
30 August 1950, Antony Gormley, sculptor, was born.
14 August 1950, Gary :Larson, cartoonist, was born.
7 September 1949, Jose Clemente Orozco, painter, died in Mexico
City aged 65.
15 August 1949, Richard Deacon, sculptor, was born.
3 January 1949, Robert Aitken, US sculptor (born 8 May 1878)
died.
3 July 1948, Painter Arshile Gorky committed suicide in New York,
aged 43.
19 May 1948, Maximilian Lenz, Austrian artist, died aged
87.
8 January 1948, Kurt Schwitters, German artist,
died.
1947, The Institute of Contemporary Arts was
founded at Dover Street, London UK. It moved to The Mall in 1968.
4 December 1947, Ann Christopher, sculptor, was
born
25 July 1947, Kathleen Scott, British
sculptor, died aged 69
9 August 1946, The Arts
Council of Great Britain was incorporated.
21 May 1945, Herbert Adams, US sculptor (born 28 January 1858)
died.
13 September 1944. William Heath Robinson, the English artist famous for his drawings of excessively
complicated machinery cobbled together, died.
1 February 1944. In New York, the Dutch artist
Piet
Mondrian died, aged 71.
23 January 1944. Death of Norwegian artist
Edvard Munch.
9 August 1943, Painter Chaim Soutine died in Paris, aged 49.
15 March 1941, Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian expressionist
painter, died aged 77.
17 November 1940, Eric Gill, English sculptor,
died aged 58.
29 June 1940, Paul Klee, artist,
died in Switzerland.
22 June 1939, David Blackburn, artist, was born in
Huddersfield, UK (died 2016);
19 February 1939, Batman was first drawn by Bob Kane
for a �Detective Comic� to be issued in May 1939.
16 February 1939, David Griffiths,
portrait painter, was born
22 May 1938, Painter William
Glackens died in Westport, |Connecticut, aged 68.
2 January 1938, David Bailey,
photographer, was born.
15 October 1937, Renato Paresce, Italian painter, died aged 51.
12 October 1937, Robert Mangold, US minimalist artist, was born
in North Tonawanda, New York.
1 September 1937, Allen Jones, artist, was born.
7 August 1937, Henri Lebasque, French post-Impressionist
painter, died aged 71
25 May 1937, Painter HO Tanner
died in Paris aged 77.
1 June 1936, Gerald Scarfe,
British cartoonist and illustrator, was born.
29 January 1936, Patrick
Caulfield, painter, was born (died 29 September 2005)
18 October 1935, Gaston Lachaise, painter, died
in New York aged 53
13 October 1935, Michael Heath, cartoonist, was
born
16 September 1935, Carl Andre,
US artist, was born.
2 July 1935. Eva
Lambert, artist, was born
13 June 1935, Christo Javachev and his partner Jean Claude,
artists, were born.
8 February 1935, Max Leibermann, painter, died in Berlin aged
87.
11 May 1934, Mark Boyle, artist, was born (died 2 May 2005)
27 May 1932, Gordon Browne, English artist and children's
book illustrator, died aged 74.
29 September 1931, William Orpen,
Irish painter, died aged 52.
25 July 1931, James
Butler, sculptor, was born.
29 April 1931, Frank
Auerbach, painter, was born.
25 April 1931, David
Shepherd, artist, was born.
24 April 1931, Bridget
Riley, artist, was born.
29 September 1930, Ilya Yefimovich
Repin, painter, died.
2 August 1930, Vali
Myers, artist, was born.
9 July 1930, Professor
Richard Demarco, watercolourist, was born.
11 March 1930, David
Gentleman, painter, was born.
7 March 1930, Earl of
Snowdon, photographer, was born.
16 February 1930, FGR
Cuming, painter, was born.
20 November 1929, First exhibition of work by Salvador Dali.
7 November 1929, The Museum of Modern Art opened in New York on a rented space on 5th
Avenue, Manhattan.
6 August 1928, Andy Warhol, US artist, was born.
28 April 1928, Yves Klein, painter, was born.
25 April 1928, Cy Twombly, US-Italian painter and sculptor,
was born.
27 September 1927, Romano Scarpa,
comic book illustrator, was born.
29 June 1927, Piero Dorazio, artist, was born
(died 17 May 2005)
23 August 1927, Allan Kaprow, artist, was born
(died 5 April 2006)
9 February 1927, Norman Adams, artist, was born
(died 10 March 2005).
6 December 1926. Impressionist painter
Claude Monet
died as a recluse in Coventry, aged 86.
10 September 1926, Beryl Cook, painter, was born.
14 June 1926, Mary Cassatt, artist, died.
7 June 1925, Karl Weschke, landscape painter, was born
(died 20 February 2005).
14 April 1925, John Singer Seargant, US painter,
died aged 69.
14 November 1925, The first Surrealist art exhibition opened in Paris.
14 September 1925, Sandra Blow, abstract painter, was born (died
22 August 2006)
17 July 1925, Lovis Corinth, German painter, died.
17 December 1924, Clifton Pugh, artist, was born.
15 November 1924, Jakub Schikaneder, Bohemian painter, died
(born 27 February 1855).
5 October 1924, Kenneth Jack, artist, was born (died 10 June 2006).
21 June 1924, Wally Fawkes, cartoonist, was born.
8 March 1924, Sir Anthony Caro, sculptor, was born.
7 March 1924, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, sculptor, was born (died
22 April 2005).
15 May 1923, Richard Avedon, photographer, was born.
16 January 1923, Keith Shackleton, artist, was born.
26 November 1922. Birth of the American cartoonist Charles Schultz.
At an arts instruction school in St Paul, Minnesota, Schultz asked fellow student Charlie Brown
if he could use his name . He also used Brown�s moon-face looks to create the friendly
loser-kid in the comic strip Peanuts,
which featured in some 2,600 newspapers in 75 countries, translated into 21
languages. Schultz
died in Santa Rosa, California, in 2000.
8 December 1922, Lucian Freud, artist, was born
24 February 1922, Richard Hamilton, English painter, was born
(died 2011).
8 January 1922, Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, was born.
25 April 1921, Karel Appel, painter, was born.
30 January 1921, John Francis Murphy, US
landscape painter, died aged 67.
11 October 1920, Edgar Negret, Colombian
sculptor, was born (died 2012).
8 October 1920, Raymond Reynaud, French painter and sculptor,
was born.
27 March 1920, Death of Samuel Colman, US landscape painter (born 4 March 1832).
25 January 1920, Amedeo Modigliani, Italian
painter, died.
3 December 1919, Pierre Auguste Renoir, French Impressionist painter, died near Cannes, aged 78. He was born on 26 February 1841.
21 December 1917, Wilhelm Trubner, German painter, died (born
1851)
17 November 1917, Death of the sculptor
Auguste
Rodin, aged 77.
27 September 1917, The painter
Edgar Degas
died, aged 83 (born 19 July 1834, in Paris).
27 March 1917, Moses Jacob Ezekiel, US sculptor, died (born
1844);
6 March 1917, Will Esner, strip cartoonist, was born (died 3
January 2005).
28 January 1917, William Gottlieb, photographer, was born (died
23 April 2006).
25 June 1916, Thomas C Eakins,
US artist, died (born 25 July 1844).
1 March 1916,
Liljevalchs Konsthall art gtallery, designed by Swedish architect Carl Bergsten,
was opened in Stockholm.
5 June 1915, French sculptor and
draughtsman Henri Gaudier-Brzeska was killed in action in
World War One, aged 23.
19 February 1915, Bernard Meadows, sculptor, was born (died 12
January 2005)
28 November 1914, Vincent Fago, American comic book artist, was
born.
24 November 1914, Lynne Chadwick, English sculptor, was born.
8 February 1914, Paul Haefliger, artist, was born (died 3/1982).
13 December 1913, Vladimir Tretchkoff, artist, was born (died 26
August 2006)
12 December 1913, Leonardo Da
Vinci�s Mona Lisa which
had been stolen from the Louvre three years earlier was found in a bedroom of a
small hotel in Florence. An Italian, Vicenzo Peruggia, was arrested.
22 August 1911, The Mona Lisa was
stolen from The Louvre, Paris.
Cubism
17 February 1913, New York got its first
look at Cubism when the Armory Show
opened on Lexington Avenue.
1911, Start of the Cubism style of painting, by Pablo
Picasso and Georges Braque. The French term Cubisme dates from 1908.
25 October 1881, Pablo Picasso,
Spanish painter who created Cubism, was born in Malaga, Andalusia.
12 December 1912, Conroy
Maddox, surrealist painter, was born (died 14 January 2005).
15 March 1912, Francis Gruber,
French painter, was born.
28 January 1912, US artist Jackson Pollock was born.
14 March 1911, Akira
Yoshizawa, creator of modern origami, was born (died 14 March 2005).
29 September 1910, US artist Winslow Homer died at his studio
in Maine.
2 September 1910, Henri �Le Douanier� Rousseau, French painter,
died.
2 November 1909, William Frith, English painter, died (born 9
January 1819).
28 October 1909, Francis Bacon, Irish-born artist, was born
(died 1992).
18 October 1909, Francis Lathrop, US artist, died (born 22 June
1849).
26 February 1909, Artist Emmanuel Poire, pseudonym Caran D�Ache (lead
pencil), born 1858, died.
15 May 1908, Monet destroyed some of his own paintings,
then worth �20,000, because he was not happy with them.
9 April 1908, Victor Vasarely, painter, was born.
21 February 1908, Harriet Hosmer, US sculptor, died (born 9
October 1830).
2 January 1908, John Knight, English landscape painter,
died.
22 October 1906, The painter
Paul Cezanne
died in Aix en Provence, France (born 19 January 1839).
9 March 1906, David Smith, sculptor, was born (died 1965).
13 February 1906, Albert Gottschalk,
Danish painter, died (born 1866).
1905, The Fauvist style of
painting was being pioneered by Henri Matisse (1869-1954). Derived from the
French �fauve� (wild animal), it is
characterised by a vivid use of colour. The term was coined by a French art
critic this year.
29 March 1905, Edward
Burra, English painter, was born (died
1976).
13
January 1905, Robert
Gifford, US painter, died (born 23 December 1840).
11 May 1904. Spanish painter
Salvador
Dali was born in Figueras, Upper Catalonia.
14 January 1904, British photographer Cecil Beaton was born.
13 November 1903, Camille Pisarro, painter, died,
25 September 1903, Mark Rothko, US artist, was born.
5 August 1903, Phil May, English caricaturist, died (born 22
April 1864).
17 July 1903, James Whistler, painter, died aged 70.
8 May 1903, Death of the French Impressionist painter Eugene Henri Paul Gauguin, on the
Marquesas Islands, Polynesia, aged 54. He was born in Paris in 1848 and spent a
short time with Vincent
Van Gogh. He died of syphilis. Gauguin had given up a successful career on
the Paris stock exchange at 35 to pursue painting, at which he was self-taught.
10 January 1903, British sculptress Barbara Hepworth was born.
7 December 1902, Thomas Nast, US caricaturist, died.
25 July 1902, Alfred Choubrac, French painter and
illustrator, died from pneumonia (born 1853)
2 July 1902, Albert Namatjira, painter, was born.
7 February 1902, Thomas Cooper, English painter, died (born 26
September 1803).
1901, Pointillism was invented by French Impressionist painters. It uses
many coloured dots to create special colour effects.
9 September 1901, The bespectacled short painter
Henri de
Toulouse-Lautrec died in Malrome from a paralytic stroke, aged 36.
31 July 1901, Jean Dubuffet, French artist, was born in Le
Havre, France.
24 June 1901, The first Picasso exhibition opened in Paris.
12 March 1901, Whitechapel Art
Gallery, London, opened.
7 March 1901, Kate Greenaway,
English artist, died (born 17 March 1846)
22 June 1900, In London, the Wallace
Collection was opened to the Public.
20 January 1900, John Ruskin, writer
and art critic, died near Coniston, Lake District, aged 80.
16 March 1899, London erotic illustrator
Aubrey
Beardsley died aged 26.
30 January 1899, Harry Bates, British sculptor, died in London
(born in Stevenage, Hertfordshire 26/ April 1850).
29 January 1899, French artist Alfred Sisley died.
21 November 1898, Rene Magritte, painter, was born.
10 October 1898, Pierre C Puvis de Chavannes, painter, died in
Paris aged 73.
26 August 1898, Peggy Guggenheim, art critic, was born.
17 June 1898, Edward Coley Burne-Jones, painter, died in
London aged 64.
18 April 1898, Gustave
Moreau, painter, died in Paris aged 72
16 March 1898, Aubrey Beardsley,
English artist, died in Mentone (born in Brighton 24 August 1872).
29 December 1897, William Linton,
English wood engraver, died.
6 October 1897, Sir John Gilbert, English painter, died (born
21 July 1817).
2 February 1897, Homer Martin, US artist, died (born 18 October
1836).
13/ August 1896, John Everett Millais, painter, died in London
aged 67.
25 January 1896, Frederick Leighton, English painter and
sculptor, died.
1895, Art Nouveau was becoming
popular. It was charcterised by free-flowing curves, based on natural forms. It
was reviled in the 1930s but came into favour again in the 1960s.
14 August 1895, Thomas Hovenden,
US artist, died (born 28 December 1840)
22 June 1895, Henry
Moore, English painter, died (born 7 March
1831).
3 May 1896, Alfred Hunt,
English painter, died (born 1830).
5 August 1894, Giovanni Muzzioli, Italian
painter, died (born 10 February 1854).
3 August 1894, George Innes, US landscape
painter, died (born 1 May 1825).
17 June 1894, William Hart, US painter,
died.
11 June 1894, Don Madrazo, Spanish painter
died.
6 October 1893, Ford Brown, English painter, died (born 16
April 1821).
25 September 1893, Albert Moore, English painter, died (born 4
September 1841).
20 April 1893, Joan Miro, painter, was born
6 April 1893,
Vicat Cole,
English painter, died (born 17 April 1833).
2 April 1891, Max Ernst, artist, was born.
29 March 1891, Easter Sunday. Georges Pierre Seurat, painter,
died.
28 February 1891, Giovanni Morelli, Italian art critic, died
(born 16 February 1816).
13 February 1891, Grant Wood, US painter, was born in Iowa.
27 January 1891, Jervis McEntee, US artist, died (born 14 July 1828).
21 January 1891, Jean Messonier, French painter, died (born 21
February 1815).
12 December 1890, Sir Joseph Boehm, British sculptor, died in
South Kensington (born in Vienna 4 July 1834).
27 August 1890, Ray Mann, artist, was born.
Vincent Van
Gogh
29 July 1890, Vincent Van
Gogh, born 30 March 1853,
died after prolonged insanity. He went to the spot where he had painted Cornfield
with flight of birds and shot himself in the chest, on 27 July 1890, dying
2 days later.
23 December
1888, The artist Vincent Van Gogh
cut off his left ear lobe.
30 March 1853, Artist Vincemt
Van Gogh was born in the Dutch village of Groot-Zundert, the son of
a Lutheran pastor.
12 June 1890, Egon Schiele, painter, was born.
31 December 1889, Sir Ernest Daryl Lindsay, Australian artist,
was born (died 25 December 1976).
17 May 1889, William Beverley, English painter, died in
Hampstead, London (born in Richmond, Surrey).
31 July 1888,
Frank Holl,
English painter, died (born 4 July 1845).
15
March 1888, Leonard Morel-Ladeuil, French sculptor, died.
20 November 1887, Louis Gaillat,
Belgian painter, died (born 9 May 1810).
18 November
1887, Frank
Dobson, English sculptor, was born.
15 November
1887, Georgia
O�Keefe, artist, was born in Wisconsin.
1 November 1887, Artist L S (Laurence Stephen) Lowry was born in
Rusholme, Manchester.
28 July 1887, Marcel Duchamp, painter, was born
7 July 1887, Marc Chagall, painter, was born.
23 March 1887, Juan Gris, painter, was born.
17 September 1886, Asher Durand,
US painter, died (born 21 August 1796).
10 July 1886, Henry Brown, US sculptor, died (born 24
February 1814).
12 February 1886, Randolph Caldecott, English artist, died (born
22 March 1846).
16 June 1885, Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (born 1818)
died.
18 May 1885, Alphonse Neuville, French painter, died (born
31 May 1836).
10 December 1884, Jules Bastien-Lepage, French painter, died in
Paris (born 1 November 1848 in Damvilliers).
12 July 1884, Amadeo Modigliani, artist, was born.
12 February 1884, Max Beckmann, painter, was born.
11 December 1883, Richard Doyle, English artist, died (born
1824).
24 November 1883, Albert Bellows, US landscape painter, died in
Auburndale, Massachusetts (born in Milford, Massachusetts, 20 November 1829)
30 April 1883, Edouard Manet, artist, died.
23 January 1883, French artist Gustave Dore
(born 6 January 1832 in Strasbourg|) died in Paris.
8 July 1882, Hablot Browne, artist, died (born 11 June 1815).
10 June 1882, Cecil Lawson, English landscape painter, died
(born 3 December 1851).
9 April 1882, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, English painter and poet, died.
7 January 1882, John Jones, English art collector, died.
10 November 1880, The British sculptor James Epstein was born (of Russian-Polish
descent) in New York City.
29 August 1880, Sandford Gifford, US painter, died (born 10
July 1823).
18 December 1879, Paul Klee, artist,
was born.
7 July 1879, George Caleb Bingham, painter, died in Kansas
City, USA, aged 68.
11 February 1879, Honore Daumier, painter, died in Valmondois
aged 70.
8 May 1878, Robert Aitken, US sculptor (died 3 January 1949)
was born.
1 February 1878, George Cruikshank, English artist, died (born
27 February 1792).
31 December 1877, Gustave Courbet, French painter,
died (born 10 June 1819).
12 November 1877, Henry Gray, US painter, died (born 23 June 1819).
4 June 1877, William Frost,
English painter, died (born 9/1810).
7 May 1877, Samuel Cousins,
English engraver, died (born 9 May 1801).
18 November 1876, Narcisse Diaz,
French painter, died (born 25.8/1808).
27 August 1876, Eugene
Fromentin, French painter, died (born 1820).
19 February 1876, Constantin Brancusi, sculptor, was born in
Romania.
22 January 1876, Sir George Harvey, Scottish
painter, died (born 2/1806).
12 October 1875, Jean Carpeaux, French sculptor, died (born 11
May 1827).
25 June 1875, Antoine Barye, French sculptor, died (born in
Paris 24 September 1796).
20 January 1875, French painter Jean Francois Millet died in
Barbizon.
21 November 1874, Mariano Fortuny, Spanish painter, died (born
11 June 1838).
27 August 1874, John Foley, Irish sculptor, died (born 24 May 1818).
5 May 1874, Marc Gleyre, French painter, died (born 2 May 1806).
7 April 1874, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, German painter, died.
1 October 1873, Sir Edwin Landseer, painter,
died in London.
22 October 1872, George Mason, English painter, died.
24 August 1872, Aubrey Beardsley, English artist, was born in
Brighton (died in Mentone 16 March 1898).
31 May 1872, Illustrator and
cartoonist Heath Robinson
was born. He was famous for his drawings of absurdly complicated machinery
performing simple tasks.
7 March 1872, Piet Mondrian, painter, was born.
25 March 1871, American sculptor,
Gutzon
Borglum, was born near Bear Lake, Idaho.
9 December 1870, �Maximillian
Ainmuller, German artist, died (born in Munich, 14 February 1807).
8 August 1870, Maximillian Ainmiller, German glass painter
(born 14 February 1807) died.
14 May 1870, The Corcoran
Gallery of Art, Washington, USA, received iits Charter.
25 April 1870, Daniel MacLise, Irish painter, died.
13 April 1870, The
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA, received its Charter.
31 December 1869, Henry Matisse, artist, was born.
10 June 1869, Frederic Hurlstone, English painter, died
(born 1800).
22 December 1868, Solon Borglum, US sculptor, was born in Ogden,
Utah.
19 November 1868, William Mount, US artist, died (born 26
January 1807).
13 November 1868, Giovanni Genelli, German painter, died (born
28 September 1798).
24/71868, George Cattermole, English painter, died (born
1800).
18 July 1868, Emanuel Leutze, US artist, died (born 24 May 1816).
22 December 1867, Painter Theodore Rousseau died in
Barbizon, aged 55.
6 December 1867, Karl Bitter, US sculptor, was born in Vienna.
14 September 1867, Charles Gibson, US artist, was born.
22 May 1867, Edward Baily, British sculptor, died in
Holloway (born in Bristol 10 March 1788).
3 April 1867, Gustav Klimt founded the Vienna Secessionist art
movement.
31 January 1867, The four great bronze lions
at the base of Nelson�s Column were
completed by painter Sir Edward Landseer and
positioned in Trafalgar Square.
14 January 1867, The painter Jean Auguste Ingres died aged 86 in Paris.
4 December 1866, Wassily
Kandinsky, painter, was born.
26 August 1866, Hermann Goldschmidt, German painter, died
(born 17 June 1802).
1 April 1866, Easter Sunday; Chester Harding, US portrait
painter, died (born 1 September 1792).
27 January 1866, John Gibson, English sculptor, died (born
1790).
29 September 1865, Francois Heim, French painter, died (born 16
December 1787)
24 November 1864, Henri de
Toulouse Lautrec, painter, was born.
1 June 1864, John Gordon,
Scottish painter, died (born 1788).
22 April 1864, Phil May, English caricaturist,
was born (died 5 August 1903).
2 April 1864, Louis Michel Eilshemius, US painter, was born
in New Jersey (died 29 December 1941 in New York City.
14 February 1864, William Dyce, British painter, died (born
1806)
10 February 1864, William Hunt, English painter, died (born 28
March 1790).
12 December 1863, Edward Munch, Norwegian artist
who painted The Scream, was born.
10 December 1863, Charles Ingham, US artist, died (born 1769).
4 December 1863, James Harding, English landscape painter, died
(born 1798).
20 September 1863, Frederick MacMonnies, US sculptor and painter,
was born.
13 August 1863, The painter
Eugene
Delacroix died in Paris.
12 July 1863, Charles Cottet, French
painter, was born at Puy.
7 July 1863, William, Mulready, English painter, died (born
30.4/1786).
24 May 1863, George Barnard, US sculptor, was born in
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania.
26 March 1863, Augustus Egg, British painter, died (born 2
May 1816).
16 February 1863, Alvan Fisher, US portrait painter, died (born
9 August 1792).
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3 December 1862, Charles Grafly,
US sculptor, was born.
14 July 1862, Gustav Klimt, painter, was born.
7 July 1862, Friedrich Gauermann, Austrian painter, died
(born 20 September 1807)).
24 March 1862, Frank Benson, US painter, was born in Salem,
Massachusetts.
22 November 1861, Cyrus Dallin, US sculptor, was born.
12 September 1861, Wilton Lockwood,
US artist, was born.
9 April 1861, Sir Charles Holroyd, British artist, was born.
9 February 1861, Francis Danby, English painter, died (born 16
November 1793).
22 August 1860, Aleixandre
Decamps, French painter, died (born 3 March 1803).
25 April 1860, Thomas Clarke, US artist, was born.
2 October 1860, Louis Hersent, French painter, died (born 10
March 1777).
7 September 1860, Grandma Moses, US painter, was born in
Greenwich, New York State.
11 August 1860, Gari Melchers, US artist, was born.
7 June 1859, David Cox, English painter, died (born 29
April 1783).
5 May 1859, Charles Leslie, English painter, died (born 19
October 1794).
12 October 1858, Painter Ando Hiroshige died in Edo,
Japan, aged 61.
12 September 1858, Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter, was born.
14 February 1858, Carl Marr, US artist, was born.
28 January 1858, Herbert Adams, US sculptor (died 21 May .1945)
was born.
9 July 1857, Robert Blum,
US artist, was born in Cincinnatti, Ohio, (died in New York City 8 June 1903).
2 February 1857, Charles Davis,
US landscape painter, was born.
27 October 1856, Kenyon Cox, US painter,
was born in Ohio.
8 March 1856, Tom Roberts, painter, was born.
22 January 1856, Walter Gay,
US artist, was born.
4 January 1856, Pierre David, sculptor, died (born 12 March 1789)
28 September 1855, George Brush, US painter, was born.
27 February 1855, Jakub Schikaneder, Bohemian painter, was born
(died 15 November 1924).
19 January 1855, Jean Guerin, French painter, died (born 25
March 1783).
22 December 1854, Benedict Fogelberg, Swedish sculptor, died
(born 8 August 1786).
10 February 1854, Giovanni Muzzioli, Italian painter, was born
(died 5 August 1894).
11 December 1853, John Murphy, US landscape painter, was born.
17 January 1853, Thomas Harrison, US artist, was born.
18 December 1852, Horatio Greenhough, US sculptor, died (born 6
September 1805).
10 December 1852, Henri Gervex, French Painter, was born.
20 September 1852, William Finden, English line engraver, died
(born 1787).
1 April 1852, Edwin Austin Abbey,
US painter, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
19 December 1851, The painter
Joseph
Turner died in his house in Chelsea, London,
under the assumed name of Booth.
3 December 1851, Cecil Lawson, English landscape painter, was
born (died 10 June 1882).
4 May 1851, Thomas Dewing, US figure painter, was born.
3 December 1850, George Manson, Scotish water colour painter,
was born (died 27 February 1876)
26 April 1850, Harry Bates, British sculptor, was born in
Stevenage, Hertfordshire (died in London 30 January 1899).
20 April 1850, Daniel French, US sculptor, was born.
22 February 1850, Sir William Allan, Scottish painter, died.
15 December 1849, Alfred East, English painter, was born.
21 November 1849, Francois Granet, French painter, died (born 17
December 1777).
22 June 1849, Francis Lathrop, US artist, was born (died 18
October 1909).
8 June 1849, Julien Dillens, Belgian sculptor, was born
(died 11/1904).
6 May 1849, Wyatt Eaton, US portrait painter, was born
(died 7 June 1896).
11 March 1849, William Etty, British painter, died (born 10
March 1787).
30 January 1849, Peter de Wint, English landscape painter, died
(born 21 January 1784).
15 December 1848, Edwin Blashfield, US artist, was born in New
York City.
9 October 1848, Frank Duvenek, US portrait painter, was born.
5 October 1848, Jean Detaille, French
painter, was born.
7 June 1848, Paul Gauguin, French painter,
was born in Paris.� He was the son of a
journalist.
11 February 1848, Thomas Cole, US landscape painter, died (born
1 February 1801).
25 December 1847, Frederick Dielmann, US painter, was born.
10 November 1847, Frederick Bridgman, painter, was born.
17 March 1847, Jean Gerard,
French caricaturist, died (born 13 September 1803)
3 November 1846, Francis Millet,
US artist, was born.
22 March 1846, Randolph
Caldecott, English artist, was born (died 12 February 1886).
17 January 1846, Henry Inman,
US artist, died (born 20 October 1801).
30 October 1845, Nicolas Charlet, French painter, died (born 20
December 1792)
23 September 1845, Jonathan Hartley, US sculptor was born.
8 September 1845, William Muller, English painter, died (born 28
June 1812).
15 August 1845, Walter Crane, English painter, was born.
25 May 1845, Thomas Duncan, Scottish portrait painter, died
(born 1807).
2 November 1844, Sir Francis Gould, caricaturist, was born.
25 July 1844, Thomas C Eakins, US artist, was born (died 25
June 1916).
22 May 1844, Mary Cassall, Impressionist painter, was born.
20 February 1844, Michael von Munkacsy, Hungarian painter, was
born (died 30 April 1900).
10 November 1843, John Trumbull, painter, died in New York aged
87.
9 July 1843, Washington Allston, US artist, died in
Cambridge, Massachusetts (born 5 November 1779 in Waccamaw, South Carolina).
24 July 1842, John Cotman, English landscape painter, died
(born 16 May 1782).
25 November 1841, Sir Francis Chantrey, English sculptor, died
(born 7 April 1782).
4 October 1841, John Enneking, US landscape painter, was born.
4 September 1841, Albert Moore,
English painter, was born (died 25 September 1893).
6 June 1841, Henry Mosler, US artist, was born.
25 February 1841, Pierre Auguste Renoir,
French impressionist painter,
was born in Limoges, the son of a tailor.
12 January 1841, Edward Henry, US painter, was born.
28 December 1840, Thomas Hovenden, US artist, was born (died 14
August 1895)
23 December 1840, Robert Gifford, US painter, was born (died 13
January 1905).
12 November 1840, Auguste Rodin, French sculptor,
was born in Paris.
14 November 1840, Claude Monet, French Impressionist painter, was born in Paris.
10 April 1840, Alexander Naysmyth, Scottish
painter, died (born 9 September 1758).
19 March 1840, Thomas Daniell, English landscape painter,
died (born 1749).
30 December 1839, William Hilton, English painter, died (born 3
June 1786).
30 April 1839, Robert Minor, US satirical
painter, was born (died 4 August 1904).
16 February 1839, George Bissell, US sculptor, was born in New
Preston, Connecticut.
19 January 1839, Paul Cezanne, French artist,
was born in Aix en Provence, France.
10 October 1838, David Neal, US artist, was born.
11 June 1838, Mariano Fortuny, Spanish painter, was born
(died 21 November 1874).
1 August 1837, Walter Geike, Scottish painter, died (born 9
November 1795).
8 May 1837, Alphonse Legros, French painter, was born.
31 March 1837, The painter
John
Constable died, aged 60.
12 January 1837, Thomas Moran, US artist, was born.
13 December 1836, Framz von
Lembach, German painter, was born.
28 October 1836, Homer Martin, US artist, was born (died 2
February 1897).
31 May 1836, Alphonse Neuville, French painter, was born
(died 18 May 1885).
24 February 1836, US artist Winslow Homer was born in
Boston, Massachusetts.
14 January 1836, Ignace Fantin-Latour, French artist, was born
(died 28 August 1904).
26 June 1835, Baron Antoine Gros, French painter, drowned himself in the River Seine at
Meudon, aged 64.
31 March 1835, John la Farge, US artist, was born in New
York.
19 July 1834, Edward Degas, painter,
was born in Paris.
11 July 1834, James McNeill Whistler, painter, was born.
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28 August 1833, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English painter, was born.
6 July 1833, Pierre Guerin, French painter, died (born 13
May 1774).
20 June 1833, Leon Bonnat, French painter, was born in
Bayomnne.
17 April 1833, Vicat Cole, English painter, was born (died 6
April 1893).
8 April 1833, Raffaello Morghen, Italian engraver, died
(born 19.6.1758).
6 January 1833, Gustav Dore, French artist,
was born.
12 December 1832, Mauritz de Haas, US painter, was born (died 23
November 1895).
4 March 1832, Samuel Colman, US landscape painter, was born.
23 January 1832, Edouard Manet,
French painter, was born in Paris.
6 January 1832, Gustave Dore, French artist,
was born.
15 July 1831, Reinhold Begas, German sculptor, was born in
Berlin.
7 March 1831, Henry Moore, English painter, was born (died
22 June 1895).
10 November 1830, Jacob Epstein, British sculptor,
was born.
9 October 1830, Harriet Hosmer, US sculptor, was born (died 21
February 1908).
7 January 1830, Albert Bierstadt, US landscape painter, was
born in Solingen, Germany (died in New York City 18 February 1902).
20 November 1829, Albert Bellows, US landscape painter, was born
in Milford, Massachusetts (died in Auburndale, Massachusetts, 24 November 1883).
19 August 1829, Edward Moran, US artist, was born (died 9 June
1901).
18 July 1829, Paul Dubois, French sculptor, was born (died
1905).
8 June 1829, Sir John Millais, English painter, was born
(died 13 August 1896).
5 March 1829, Jean Henner,
French painter, was born (died 1905).
8 November 1828, Thomas Bewick, wood engraver, died (born near
Newcastle on Tyne 8/1753).
16 July 1828, Jean Houdon, French sculptor, died (born 18
March 1740).
14 July 1828, Jervis McEntee, US artist, was born (died 27
January 1891).
9 July 1828, Painter Gilbert Stuart died in Boston, USA, aged 52.
16 April 1828, Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter and etcher, died in France
aged 82.
16 October 1827, Arnold Bocklin, Swiss painter, was born in
Basel (died 16 January 1901).
15 October 1827, Ralph Blakelock, US painter, was born in New
York.
22 August 1827, Thomas Rowlandson, painter, died aged 70.
11 May 1827, Jean Carpeaux, French sculptor, was born (died
12 October 1875).
22 April 1827, Thomas Rowlandson, English watercolour painter (born 1756) died in
London.
2 April 1827, William Hunt, English artist, was born (died 7
September 1910).
22 February 1827, Charles Wilson Peale, painter, died aged 85.
4 May 1826, Frederick Church, US landscape painter, was
born (died 7 April 1900).
6 April 1826, Gustave Moreau, French painter, was born (died
18 April 1898).
21 February 1826, Joihn Kay, Scottish caricaturist, died.
29 December 1825, Jacques David, French painter, died (born 30
April 1748).
30 November 1825, Adolphe Bouguereau, French painter, was born
in La Rochelle (died 20 August 1905).
1 May 1825, George Innes, US landscape painter, was born
(died 3 August 1894).
27 April 1825, Dominique Denon, French artist, died (born 4
January 1747).
16 April 1825, Henry Fuseli, Swiss-German painter, died (born
7 February 1741).
13 April 1825, William Beard, US painter, was born in
Painesville, Ohio (died 1900).
14 January 1825, George Dance, painter, died.
9 November 1824, Anne Girodet, French painter, died (born 5
January 1767).
29 July 1824, Eastman Johnson, artist, was born (died 5
April 1906).
31 March 1824, William Hunt, US painter, was born (died 31
July 1895).
27 January 1824, Josef Israels, Dutch painter, was born.
26 January 1824, Jean Gericault, French painter,
died (born 1791).
10 August 1823, Charles Keene, English artist, was born (died
4 January 1891).
10 July 1823, Sandford Gifford, US painter, was born (died
29 August 1880).
31 March 1823, William Hart, US painter, was born.
13 October 1822, Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor, died (born 1
November 1757).
4 July 1822, Jean Baptiste Guillaume, French sculptor, was
born (died 1905).
22 February 1822, Rosa Bonheur, French painter, was born in
Bordeaux (died 1899).
10 September 1821, Johann Fiorillo, German painter, died (born 13
October 1748)
4 July 1821, Richard Cosway, English miniature painter,
died
22 April 1821, Easter Sunday; John Crome, English landscape
painter, died (born 21 December 1780).
16 April 1821, Ford Brown, English painter, was born (died 6
October 1893).
16 December 1820, Sir George Scharf, director of the British
National Portrait Gallery, was born (died 19 April 1895).
8 April 1820, The famous
Venus de Milo sculpture was discovered by a peasant on the Aegean island of
Melos. Thought to have been crafted by Alexandros of Antioch, the object was given to
King Louis
XVIII, who donated it to the Louvre.
11 March 1820, Benjamin West, painter, died aged 81 in
London.
28 February 1820, Sir John Tenniel, illustrator and cartoonist,
was born.
21 November 1819, James Hook, English painter, was born (died 14
April 1907).
23 June 1819, Henry Gray, US painter, was born (died 12
November 1877).
10 June 1819, Gustave Courbet, French painter, was born
(died 31 December 1877).
9 January 1819, William Frith, English painter, was born (died
2 November 1909).
21 June 1818, Sir Richard Wallace, art collector and
philanthropist, was born.
24 May 1818, John Foley, Irish sculptor, was born (died 27
August 1874).
22 March 1818, Easter Sunday; John Kensett, US painter, was
born.
29 August 1817, John Leech, English caricaturist, was born
(died 29 October 1864).
21 July 1817, Sir John Gilbert, English painter, was born
(died 6 October 1897).
15 February 1817, Charles Daubigny, French landscape painter,
was born (died 19 February 1878).
29 January 1817, John Horsley, English painter, was born (died
18 October 1903).
14 October 1816, Daniel Huntingdon, US artist, was born (died
19 April 1906).
2 May 1816, Augustus Egg, British painter, was born (died
26 March 1863).
24 May 1816, Emanuel Leutze, US artist, was born (died 18
July 1868).
16 February 1816, Giovanni Morelli, Italian art critic, was born
(died 28 February 1891).
29 September 1815, Andreas Achenbach, German landscape painter,
was born (died 31 March 1910).
11 June 1815, Hablot Browne, artist, was born (died 8 July 1882).
21 February 1815, Jean Messonier, French painter, was born (died
21 January 1891).
18 February 1815, Hendrik Leys, Belgian painter, was born.
8 December 1815, Adolph Menzel, German artist, was born (died 9
February 1905).
1814, Dulwich Art Gallery opened; the first public art gallery.
29 March 1814, Claude Michel, French sculptor, died (born 20
December 1738).
22 March 1814, Thomas Crawford, US sculptor, was born (died
10 October 1857).
24 February 1814, Henry Brown, US sculptor, was born (died 10
July 1886).
11 March 1812, Philip de Loutherberg, English artist, died
(born 31 October 1740).
15 October 1811, Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter,
died (born 18 May 1735).
11 November 1810, Portrait painter Johann Zoffany died in
Middlesex, England.
23 January 1810, John Hoppner,
English portrait painter, died
20 September 1807, Friedrich
Gauermann, Austrian painter, was born (died 7 July 1862).
14 February 1807, Maximillian
Ainmuller, German artist, was born in Munich (died 9 December 1870).
26 January 1807, William
Mount, US artist, was born (died 19 November 1868).
22 October 1806, Thomas Sheraton, furniture
designer and cabinet maker, died.
25 August 1808, Narcisse Diaz, French painter, was born (died
18 November 1876).
22 August 1806, Jean Honore Fragonard, eminent
French rococo painter before the revolution, died in poverty. He no longer had
any clients for his artwork.
10 July 1806, George Stubbs, British painter
and engraver, famous for his sports-related pictures, especially of horses,
died in London.
2 May 1806, Marc Gleyre, French painter, was born (died 5
May 1874).
22 February 1806, James Barry, English painter, died (born in Cork
11 October 1741).
6 September 1805, Horatio
Greenhough, US sculptor, was born (died 18 December 1852).
19 June 1805, Louis
Lagrenee, French painter, died (born 30 December 1721.
2 February 1805, Thomas Banks,
English sculptor, died in London (born in London 29 December 1735).
27 January 1805, Samuel
Palmer, artist, was born.
29 October 1804, George
Morland, English painter, died (born 26 June 1763).
4 May 1804, Antonio
Cavanilles, painter, died (born 16 January 1745)
26 September 1803, Thomas Cooper, English painter, was born (died
7 February 1902).
13 September 1803, Jean Gerard, French caricaturist, was born
(died 17 March 1847)
3 March 1803, Aleixandre
Decamps, French painter, was born (died 22 August 1860).
15 November 1802, George
Romney, British painter, died.
9 November 1802, Thomas
Girtin, british watercolour painter, died.
17 June 1802, Hermann Goldschmidt, German painter, was born
(died 26 August 1866).
7 March 1802, Sculptor and animal painter
Sir Edward
Landseer was born in London, the son of an engraver. He designed the
bronze lions at the base of Nelson�s Column in Trafalgar Square.
20 October 1801, Henry Inman, US artist, was born (died 17
January 1846).
4 September 1801, Alfred d�Orsay, French artist, was born (died
4 August 1852).
16 August 1801, Ralph Earle, US portrait painter, died (born
11 May 1771).
9 May 1801, Samuel Cousins,
English engraver, was born (died 7 May 1887).
1 February 1801, Thomas Cole, US landscape painter, was born
(died 11 February 1848).
19 May 1800, Sarah Miriam Peale, US portrait
painter, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (died 1885).
9 February 1800, Joseph von Fuhrich, Austrian painter, was born
(died 13 March 1876).
4 August 1799, John Bacon, sculptor, died in London (born 24
November 1740 in Southwark),
28 September 1798, Giovanni Genelli, German painter, was born
(died 13 November 1868).
26 April 1798, Ferdinand Delacroix, French
painter, was born in Charenton St Maurice.
17 July 1797, Hippolyte Delaroche, French painter, was born
(died 4 November 1856).
21 August 1796, Asher Durand, US painter, was born (died 17
September 1886).
26 July 1796, Jean Baptiste Corot, French landscape painter,
was born (died 22 February 1875).
28 May 1796, William Miller, Scottish line engraver, was
born (died 20 January 1882).
3 February 1796, Jean Madou, Belgian painter, was born (died 31
March 1877).
9 November 1795, Walter Geike, Scottish painter, was born (died
1 August 1837).
24 September 1795, Antoine Barye, French sculptor, was born in
Paris (died 25 June 1875).
3 January 1795, Josiah Wedgwood,
English potter and creator of blue
jasper ware, died in
Staffordshire.
19 October 1794, Charles Leslie, English painter,
was born (died 5 May 1859).
17 November 1793, Sir Charles Eastlake, English painter, was
born (died 24 December 1865).
19 July 1793, Thomas Doughty, US painter (died 22 July 1856
in New York city) was born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
20 December 1792, Nicolas Charlet, French painter, was born
(died 30 October 1845).
1 September 1792, Chester Harding, US portrait painter, was born
(died 1 April 1866).
9 August 1792, Alvan Fisher, US portrait painter, was born
(died 16 February 1863).
16 June 1792, John Linnell, English painter, was born (died
20 January 1882).
27 February 1792, George Cruikshank, English artist, was born
(died 1 February 1878).
23 February 1792, Joshua Reynolds, English portrait
painter, died in London.
26 September 1791, Theodore Gericault, French painter, was born
in Rouen (died 1824).
6 March 1791, Anna Claypoole Peale, US miniature painter,
was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (died 1878),
22 August 1790, Francois Forster, French engraver, was born
(died 27 June 1872).
28 March 1790, William Hunt, English painter, was born (died
10 February 1864).
19 July 1789, John Martin, English painter, was born (died
17 February 1854).
2 August 1788, The painter
Thomas
Gainsborough, born 14 May 1727, died.
10 March 1788, Edward Baily, British sculptor, was born in
Bristol (died in Holloway 22 May 1867).
18 February 1788, Maurice la Tour, French pastel painter, died
(born 5 September 1704).
16 December 1787, Francois Heim, French painter, was born (died
29 September 1865)
10 March 1787, William Etty, British painter, was born (died
13 November 1849).
3 June 1786, William Hilton, English painter, was born
(died 30 December 1839).
30 April 1786, William, Mulready, English
painter, was born (died 7 July 1863).
26 January 1786, Benjamin Haydon, English painter, was born
(died 22 June 1846).
14 December 1785, Giovanni
Battista Cipriani, Italian born English neoclassical painter, died
in London aged 58.
26 April 1785, John James Audubon, US artist,
was born in Les Cayes, St Dominique, west Indies (died 1859).
10 August 1784, Allan Ramsay, portrait painter,
died in Dover, England, aged 70.
21 January 1784, Peter de Wint, English landscape painter, was
born (died 30 January 1849).
18 December 1783, Johan Bystrom, Swedish sculptor, was born
(died 1848).
29 April 1783, David Cox, English painter, was born (died 7
June 1859).
25 March 1783, Jean Guerin, French painter, was born (died 19
January 1855).
16 May 1782,� John Cotman,
English landscape painter, was born (died 24 July 1842).
7 April 1782, Sir Francis Chantrey, English sculptor, was
born (died 25 November 1841).
14 November 1780, Jacobus Houbraken, Dutch engraver, died (25
December 1698).
29 August 1780, Jean Ingres, French painter, was born (died 17
January 1867).
6 December 1779, Jean Baptiste Chardin, painter, died in Paria
aged 80.
6 December 1779, Jean Baptiste Chardin, painter, died in Paria
aged 80.
5 November 1779, Washington Allston, US artist, was born in
Waccamaw, South Carolina. He died 9 July 1843 in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
29 June 1779, Anton Raphael Mengs, early
Italian neoclassical painter, died in Rome aged 51.
22 December 1778, Simon Lantara, French landscape painter, died
(born 24 March 1729).
10 March 1777, Louis Hersent,
French painter, was born (died 2 October 1860).
11 June 1776, John Constable,
landscape
painter, was born in East Bergholt, Suffolk, the son of a landowner
and miller.
13 May 1774, Pierre Guerin, French painter, was born (died
6 July 1833).
30 May 1770, Painter and engraver Francois
Boucher died in Paris.
4 May 1770, Francois Gerard, French painter, was born
(died 11 January 1837).
21 December 1769, John Crome, English landscape painter, was
born (died 22 April 1821).
4 May 1769, Sir Thomas Lawrence, English painter, was born
(died 7 January 1830).
10 December 1768, The Royal Academy of
Arts, London, was founded.� Joshua Reynolds
was the first President.
8 October 1768, Pierre Fournier,
French engraver, died (born 15 September 1712).
20 April 1768, Painter
Canaletto died in Venice. Born there
in 1697, Canaletto
painted many scenes of Venice before moving to England in 1746 to paint the
country houses there.
11 April 1767, Jean Isabey, French painter, was born (died
1855).
5 January 1767, Anne Girodet, French painter, was born (died 9
December 1824).
27 October 1764, The painter
and engraver William
Hogarth died in
London, aged 67.� He was buried in
Chiswick churchyard. He also pushed for
legislation to protect the intellectual property of artists, the so-called
�Hogarth Act� of 1753.
26 June 1763, George Morland, English painter, was born
(died 29 October 1804).
21 April 1760, Britain�s
first art exhibition opened. The Annual Exhibition of United Artists was
held at the premises of the Society of Arts on The Strand, London.
15 October 1758, Johann Heinrich von Dannecker, German
sculptor, was born (died 1841)
9 September 1758, Alexander Naysmyth, Scottish painter, was born
(died 10 April 1840).
19 June 1758, Raffaello Morghen, Italian engraver, was born
(died 8 April 1833).
1 November 1757, Antonio Canova, Italian sculptor, was born
(died 13 October 1822).
6 July 1755, John Flaxman, English sculptor, was born (died
7 December 1826).
12 March 1749, Allesandro Magnasco, painter, died aged 81 in
Genoa.
13 October 1748, Johann Fiorillo, German painter, was born
(died 10 September 1821)
30 August 1748, Jacques David, French painter, was born (died
29 December 1825).
4 January 1747, Dominique Denon, French artist, was born (died
27 April 1825).
30 March 1746, Francisco de Goya,
Spanish painter, was born
in Fuendetodos, near Saragosa, son of a master gilder.
20 March 1746, Nicolas
Largilliere, French painter, died (born 20
October 1656).
16 January 1745, Antonio Cavanilles,
painter, was born (died 4 May 1804).
14 September 1743, Nicolas
Lancret, French painter, died (born 22
January 1660).
30 October 1741, Angelica Kauffman, French painter, was born.
11 October 1741, James Barry, English painter, was born in Cork
(died 22 February 1806).
7 February 1741, Henry Fuseli, Swiss-German painter, was born
(died 16 April 1825).
24 November 1740, John Bacon, sculptor, was born in Southwark
(died 4 August 1799 in London)
31 October 1740, Philip de Loutherberg, English artist, was
born (died 11 March 1812).
18 March 1740, Jean Houdon, French sculptor, was born (died
16 July 1828).
20 December 1738, Claude Michel, French sculptor, was born (died
29 March 1814).
10 October 1738, Benjamin West, necoclasical painter, was born
near Springfield, Massachusetts,
11 August 1737, Joseph Nollekens, sculptor, was born in
London.
29 December 1735, Thomas Banks, English sculptor, was born in
London (died in London 2 February 1805).
18 May 1735, Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English painter,
was born (died 15 October 1811).
5 April 1732, Jean Honore Fragonard, painter,
was born in Grasse, France.
29 February 1732, Andre Charles
Boulle, fiurniture maker, died in Paris.
12 July 1730, Josiah Wedgewood, potter,
was born at Burslem, Staffordshire.
24 March 1729, Simon Lantara, French landscape painter, was
born (died 22 December 1778).
14 May 1727, Artist Thomas
Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk. He was the son of a cloth
merchant.
21 August 1725, Jean Greuze, French painter, was born (died 4
March 1805).
30 December 1724, Louis Lagrenee, French painter, was born (died
19 June 1805).
24 August 1724, George Stubbs, painter, was born in Liverpool,
England.
7 November 1723, Sir Godfrey Kneller, portrait painter, died
(born 8 August 1648).
16 July 1723, Joshua Reynolds, English portrait
painter, was born at Plympton Earls, Devon.
8 September 1721, Michael Brokoff, sculptor, died.
3 August 1721, Grinling Gibbons, English sculptor and wood
carver, died.
18 July 1721, Painter Jean Antoine Watteau died aged 36 of smallpox
in Nogent sur Marne.
10 October 1720, Charles Coysevox, French sculptor, died (born
29 September 1640).
9 December 1717, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, art historian, was
born in Stendal, Prussia.
5 April 1717, Jean Jouvenet, French painter, died.
13 December 1716, Charles de Lafosse, French painter, died.
15 September 1712, Pierre Fournier, French engraver, was born
(died 8 October 1768).
12 September 1712, Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter, died (born
1637).
7 December 1709, Meindert Hobbema, painter, died in Amsterdam
aged 71,
8 April 1707, Painter Willem van de Velde the Younger died in
Greenwich, London, aged 73.
5 September 1704, Maurice la Tour, French pastel painter, was
born (died 18 February 1788).
27 September 1703, Francois Boucher, painter, was born.
25 December 1698, Jacobus Houbraken, Dutch engraver, was born
(died 14 November 1780).
10 November 1697, Painter
William Hogarth was born at Smithfield, London, the son of
a teacher.
18 October 1697. Birth of painter
Canaletto.
He was born in Venice, as Giovanni Antonio Canal, and was trained by his
father who was a scene painter. As a youth Canaletto went to Rome to study under the
classical painter Pannini. He returned to Venice to become the
most famous painter of Venetian views of the 18th century. His
patron was Joseph
Smith who served as English consul in Venice; as a result Canaletto�s
work became popular with English travellers and he cane to England in 1746,
staying there for most of the next 10 years. He painted his four views of
Warwick castle, the two largest of which are (2001) in the Birmingham Museum
and Art Gallery.
16 April 1696, Giovanni Batista Tiepolo, Venetian painter, was born.
3 April 1695, Melchior d�Hondecoeterk Dutch painter, died.
25 April 1690, David Teniers the Younger, painter, died aged
79.
22 February 1690, Charles le Brun, French painter, died (born 24
February 1619).
14 January 1684, Jean-Baptiste van Loo, painter, was born.
21 November 1682, Claude Lorrain, painter, died in Rome aged 82.
3 April 1682, Bartolome Murillo, painter, died in Seville
aged 64.
14 March 1682, Jacob van Ruysdael, painter, died in Amsterdam,
aged 53..
28 November 1680, Italian sculptor Giovanni
Bernini died.
19 October 1678, Dutch painter Samuel Dirkz van Hoogstraten
died (born 1627).
15 June 1679, Guillaume Courtois, French painter, died (born
1628).
28 March 1677, Wenzel Hoillar, Bohemian etcher, died (born 13
July 1607).
20 May 1676, Jacques Courtois, French painter, died (born
1621),
15 December 1675. Jan Vermeer
died aged 43.
22 October 1674, Gerbrand Eeckhout, Dutch painter, died (born
19 August 1621)
12 August 1674, Philippe de Champaigne, Belgian painter, died
(born 1602).
15 March 1673, The painter Salvator Rosa died in Rome, aged 57.
5 May 1672, Samuel Cooper,
English miniature painter, died (born 1609).
21 January 1672, Painter Adriaen van de
Velde died in Amsterdam aged 41.
4 October 1669. The Dutch painter Rembrandt
died in solitude and poverty,
aged 63, in Amsterdam, having survived both his wife and his mistress. He
gradually went bankrupt after his wealthy wife died in 1642, although in his
30s he earned large sums of money from painting portraits of the elite in
Amsterdam. He left a legacy of 600 paintings, 1500 drawings and 350 etchings.
9 April 1667, The world�s
first art exhibition opened at the Palais Royale in Paris, organised by the
Academie de Peinture et de Sculpture. It closed on 23 April 1667.
22 December 1666, Painter Guercino died in Bologna, aged
75.
26 August 1666, Painter Franz Hals died in Haatrlem aged
86.
19 November 1665, French painter Nicolas Poussin died in Rome,
Italy.
6 August 1660, Diego Rodriguez Velazquez, painter, died in
Madrid.
22 January 1660, Nicolas Lancret, French painter, was born
(died 14 September 1743).
28 December 1656, Laureint de Lahire, French painter, died (born
27 February 1606).
20 October 1656, Nicolas Largilliere, French painter, was born
(died 20 March 1746).
30 April 1655, Eustache le Sueur, French painter, died (born
19 November 1617).
27 April 1656, Jan van Goyen, painter, died.
10 June 1654, Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor (born
1602 in Bologna) died in Rome.
22 June 1650, Matthew Merian, Swiss engraver, died (born 25
September 1593).
8 August 1646, Sir Godfrey Kneller, portrait painter, was
born (died 7 November 1723).
18 August 1642, Reni Guido, Italian painter, died (born 4
November 1575).
9 December 1641, Sir Anthony Van
Dyck, Flemish court painter
to Charles I
from 1632, died in his studio in Blackfriars, London,
aged 42, and was buried in Old St Pauls.
15 April 1641, Zampieri Domenichino, Italian painter, died
(born 21 October 1581).
29 September 1640, Charles Coysevox, French sculptor, was born
(died 10 October 1720).
30 May 1640, Peter Paul Reubens, Flemish Baroque painter, died in Antwerp.
31 October 1632, Jan Vermeer, Dutch painter,
was born in Delft, the son of an art dealer.
17 March 1628, Francois Girardon, French sculptor, was born
(died 1715).
24 February 1619, Charles le Brun, French painter, was born
(died 22 February 1690).
7 January 1619, Nicholas Hilliard, English painter, died.
19 November 1617, Eustache le Sueur, French painter, was born
(died 30 April 1655).
14 October 1617, Peter Lely, Baroque portrait painter, was born
in Soest, Westphalia, Germany.
1 January 1617, Hendrik Goltzius, Dutch painter, died (born
1558).
8 April 1614. The Greek-born
Spanish painter�
Domenikos
Theotokopoulos, or El Greco
died in Toledo.
7 April 1613, Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter, was born (died
1680).
19 August 1621, Gerbrand Eeckhout, Dutch painter, was born
(died 22 October 1674)
18 July 1610, Italian painter
Caravaggio
died, A man with a violent temper, he had killed a man in 1606 and had to flee
Rome for Naples, He heard that he was to be pardoned by the Pope and died on
his way back to Rome.
19 August 1609, Johannes Fyt, Belgian painter, was born (died
1661).
15 July 1609, Annibale Carracci, Italian painter, and
engraver, died in Rome.
22 September 1607, Alessandro Allori, painter, died.
15 July 1606. Rembrandt,
or Harmenszoon
Van Rijn, the Dutch painter,
was born at Leyden.� He was the son of a
prosperous miller.
13 July 1607, Wenzel Hoillar, Bohemian etcher, was born
(died 28 March 1677).
27 February 1606, Laureint de
Lahire, French painter, was born (died 28 December 1656).
6 June 1599, Diego Velasquez, Spanish painter,
was born in Seville.
22 March 1599, Sir Anthony van
Dyck, Flemish artist and court
painter to Charles I of England, was born in Antwerp, son of a cloth
manufacturer.
7 December 1598, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, sculptor and architect,
was born.
13 January 1596, Jan Goyen, Dutch painter, was born (died
1656).
31 May 1594, Tintoretto, his real name being Jacopo
Robusti, one of the great Italian painters,
died in Venice, aged 76.
25 September 1593, Matthew Merian, Swiss engraver, was born (died
22 June 1650).
8 July 1593, Artemisia Gentileschi, painter, was born.
5 March 1592, Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter, died (born
1499).
8 February 1591, Painter Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
was born near Ferrara, Italy.
21 October 1581, Il Domenichino, Italian painter (died 15 April
1641 in Naples) was born in Bologna, Italy.
21 December 1579, Vicente Joanes, Spanish painter, died (born
1506).
5 February 1578, Giambattista Moron, Italian portratit painter,
died.
28 June 1577, Peter Van Rubens, Flemish painter,
was born in Siegen, Westphalia, the son of a lawyer.
27 August 1576, Titian (Tiziano
Vecelli) died, of bubonic plague, in Venice. His age was uncertain,
but was believed to be over 90.
4 November 1575, Reni Guido, Italian painter, was born (died 18
August 1642).
27 June 1574, Giorgio Vasari, Florentine painter, died.
28 September 1573, Caravaggio, painter, was born.
22 December 1572, Francois Clouet, French miniature painter,
died.
23 November 1572, Painter
Bronzino
died in Florence, aged 69.
13 February 1571, Renaissance Italian sculptor and goldsmith Benvenuto
Cellini died.
18 February 1564. Michelangelo Buonarotti died in Rome, aged 88.
16 October 1553, Death of German painter Lucas Cranach the Elder.
29 November 1543, German painter Hans Holbein the Younger died in London.
24 August 1540, Francesco Parmigiano, Italian painter, died.
12 February 1538, Abrecht Altdorfer, painter, died.
22 January 1531, Death of Florentine painter Andrea del Sarto.
6 April 1528, Albrecht Durer, German artist
and engraver, died in Nuremberg, aged 57.
6 April 1520, The painter
Raphael
died on his 37th birthday.� He
was born in Urbino, Italy, on 6 April 1483.
29 September 1518, Tintoretto, Venetian painter,
was born as Jabobi
Robusti, the son of a dyer.
1 November 1512, Michaelangelo
unveiled his painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
25 October 1510, Giorgione, painter,
died.
17 May 1510, Death of Florentine painter
Sandro
Botticelli, aged 65, whose work included The Birth of Venus.
20 February 1507, Death of Gentile Bellini, Venetian
painter.
13
September 1506, Andrea Mantegna, Italian painter, died in Mantua.
8 September 1504, Michelangelo,
29, unveiled his
statue of David in Florence. The 13 foot high marble statue had taken him three
years to carve.
11 January 1504, Parmigianino (Francesco Mazzola), painter, was
born in Italy.
3 November 1503, Michaelangelo was commissioned to paint� a portrait of Lisa Gherardini, by her
husband, Francesco
del Giocondo. This painting, completed in 1507, is now known as the Mona Lisa.
1 November 1500, Birth of Benvenuto Cellini, Italian
sculptor.
29 August 1499, Alessio Baldovinetti, Florentine painter, died
(born 14 October 1427).
24 May 1494, Birth of Jacopo da Pontormo, Renaissance artist.
11 January 1494, Domenico Ghirlandajo, Florentine painter, died
(born 1449).
2 February 1491, Martin Schongauer, German painter, died in
Breisach, Baden.
7 October 1488, Andrea de Verrochio, Italian painter and
sculptor, teacher of Leonardo da Vinci, died in Venice.
28 March 1483, Raphael, Italian painter,
was born in Urbino as Raffaello Sanzio or Santi.
14 February 1483, Ridolfo Ghirlandajo, Florentine painter, was
born (died 1560).
10 February 1482, Death of Luca del Robbia, Florentine
sculptor.
6 March 1475, Michelangelo, Italian painter
and sculptor, was born in Capresse, Tiuscany, as Michelagniolo di
Lodovico Buonarroti.
21 May 1471, Albrecht Durer, German
artist and engraver, was born in
Nuremberg. He was the son of a goldsmith.
8 October 1469, Fra Filippo Lippi, painter,
died.
13 December 1466, Donatello, sculptor,
died.
16 June 1464, Roger van der Weyden, painter,
died.
1 December 1455, Lorenzo Ghiberti, Florentine sculptor, died in
Florence.
18 February 1455, Fra Angelico, Florentine painter, died.
26 April 1452, Leonardo Da Vinci,
Italian painter,
sculptor, architect, musician, engineer, scientist, and inventor,
was born into The Renaissance.
26 April 1452, Leonardo Da Vinci,
Italian painter, sculptor, architect, musician,
engineer, scientist, and inventor, was born into The Renaissance.
16 April 1446, Filippo Brunelleschi, the Florentine architect and sculptor who designed the city�s
cathedral, died.
9 June 1441, Dutch painter Jan van Eyck,
equerry to Philip
the Good, Duke of Burgundy, died.
9 July 1440, Jan van Eyck, Dutch painter, died in Bruges.
28 March 1438, Santi Raphael, painter, died.
14 October 1427, Alessio Baldovinetti, Florentine painter, was
born (died 29 August 1499).
14 February 1404, Leone Alberti, Italian
artist, was born (died 1472).
8 January 1337, The painter
Giotto
died, aged 70.
18,000 BCE, The world�s oldest
sculptures, made in Asia, have been dated to this period.
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