Chronography of Art (Visual)
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Nationality
of artists: Austria, Belgium-Flanders-Netherlands, Bohemia-Czech, Britain, France, Germany, Ireland, �Italy, Spain, Switzerland,
USA,
Note
changing prevalence of nationalities through the 1500s, 1600s, 1700s below
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).
2005,
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).
3 January 2005, Will Esner, strip cartoonist,
died (born 6 March 1917).
14 March 2003, Jack Goldstein, artist, died.
22 January 2002, Kenneth Armitage, British
sculptor, died in London) (born 18 July 1916 in Leeds)
3 June 2000, Leonard Baskin, US sculptor,
died in Northampton, Massachusetts (born 15 August 1922 in New Brunswick, New
Jersey)
1999,
15 August 1999, Sir Hugh Casson, artist, died.
24 April 1999, Arthur Boyd, Australian painter,
died near Melbourne (born 24 July 1920 near Melbourne)
3 November 1998, Bob Kane, cartoonist, creator of
Batman, died.
29 September 1997, Roy
Lichtenstein, artist, died.
19 March 1997, Willem de Kooning, painter, died
in East Hampton, Long Island, USA (born 24 April 1904 in Rotterdam)
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.
1995,
19 July
1995, Michael Andrews,
British painter, died in London (born 30 October 1928 in Norwich)
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.
1985,
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 August 1981, Alfred H Barr Jr, US art
historian, died in Salisbury, Connecticut (born 28 January 1902 in Detroit)
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.
1979,
5 December 1979, Sonia Delaunay-Terk, Russian painter, died in
Paris (born 14 November 1885 in Gradizhsk, Ukraine)
8 November 1979, Edward Ardizzone, British painter, died in
Rodmersham, Kent (b9orn 16 October 1900 in Hai Phong, Vietnam)
5 November 1979, Al Capp, cartoonist, died.
29 August 1979, Ivon Hitchens, British painter, died near
Petworth, Surrey (born� 3 March 1893 in
London)
6 May 1979, Bernard Leach, British studio pottery artist,
died aged 92.
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.
24 July 1976, Afro Basadella Afro, Italian painter, died in
Zurich (born 4 March 1912 in Udine)
23 February 1976, The painter
L S (Lawrence Stephen) Lowry, noted
for his matchstick people, died in Glossop, Derbyshire.
1975,
17 November 1975, Michael Ayrton, British painter, died in
London (born 20 February 1921 in London)
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..
8 April 1973. Spanish painter Pablo Picasso died of a heart
attack, aged 91. He was famous for his Cubist style.
14 December 1972, Eugene Berman, Russian-born painter, died in
Rome (born 16 November 1899 in St Petersburg)
29 May 1970, Eva Hesse, artist, died.
25 February 1970, Mark Rothko, painter, aged 66, committed
suicide in New York.
26 January 1970, Rita Angus, New Zealand painter, died in
Wellington (born 12 March 1908 in Hastings)
1969,
21 November 1969, Norman Lindsay,
artist, died.
25 July 1969, Otto Dix,
German painter,
died in Singen (born 2 December 1891 in Thuringia)
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.
10 January 1967, Charles Burchfield, US painter, died in
Seneca, New York (born 9 April 1893 in Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio)
17 June 1966, Jean Arp, painter, died in Basel
aged 78.
13 April 1966, Carlo Carra, Italian painter,
died in Milan (born 11 February 1881 in Piedmont)
23 May 1965, David Smith,
US sculptor, died aged 59.
3 January 1965, Milton
Avery, US painter, died in New York (born
7 March 1885 in Altmar, New York)
16 November 1964, Otto
Benesch, Austrian art historian, died in
Vienna (born 20 June 1896 in Ebenfurth)
21 July 1964, Jean
Fautrier, French painter and sculptor, died
in Seine et Oise (born 16 May 1898 in Paris)
24 June 1964, Stuart
Davis, US painter, died in New York (born
7 December 1894 in Philadelphia)
11 October 1963, Jean Cocteau, French artist (born 1889) died.
16 August 1963, Joan Eardley, British painter,
died in Glasgow (born 18 May 1921 in Warnham, Sussex)
20 April 1963, Rachel Whiteread, sculptor, was
born.
17 October 1962, Natalia Goncharova,
Russian-French painter, died in Paris (born 1881 in Russia)
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.
7 April 1961, Vanessa Bell, British painter,
died in Firle, Sussex (born 30 may 1879 in London).
1959,
21 October 1959, The Solomon R Guggenheim Art Museum, New York, USA, opened.
6 October 1959, Bernard Berenson, US art
historian, died in Settignano (born 26 June 1865 in Butremancz, Lithuania)
20 August 1959, Alfred Kubin, Austrian painter,
died near Wernstein (born 10 April 1877 in Bohemia)
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.
19 January 1958, Robert Gibbings, British wood engraver, died
in Oxford (born 23 March 1889 in Cork, Ireland)
1957,
25 November 1957, Diego
Rivera, painter, died in Mexico City aged
70.
24 June 1957, Frantisek
Kupka, Czech painter, died in Puteaux,
Paris (born 22 Septe,ber 1871 in Bohemia)
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.
10 June 1956, Frank Brangwyn, Belgian-born British artist
and designer, died aged 89.
8 June 1956, Marie Laurencin, French painter, died in Paris
(born 31 October 1883 in Paris)
15 April 1956, Emil Nolde, German-Danish
painter, died aged 88.
1955, The Documenta Art Exhibition was first held in Kassel, Germany. Now
held every 4-5 years, its significance was that it marked Germany�s reacceptance of avant-garde art, condemned by the
Nazis as �degenerate�
29 September 1955, Carl Milles, Swedish sculptor, diedin Lidingo
(born 23 June 1875 in Uppsala)
17 August 1955, Fernand Leger, painter, died in Gif sur
Yvette, France, aged 74.
3 April 1955, Karl Hofer, German painter, died in Berlin
(born 11 October 1878 in Karlsruhe)
16 March 1955, Nicolas de Stael, painter, died in Antibes
aged 41.
15 January 1955, Yves Tanguy, painter, died.
1954, The Gutai Group of performance artists was foundedin Osaka, Japan.
6 October 1954, Emile Male, French art historian, died in
Chaalis, Oise (born 2 June 1862 in Commentry)
10 September 1954, Painter Andre Derain died in Chambourcy,
France, aged 74.
12 August 1958, Andre Bauchant, French na�ve painter, died in
Montoire sur Loire (born 24 April 1873 in Indre et Loire)
30 July 1954, Reginald Marsh, US painter, died in Dorset,
Vermont (born 14 March 1898 in Paris)
13 July 1954, Frida Kahlo, painter, died.
4 April 1954, Frederick Antal, Hungarian-born art historian,
died in London UK (born 21 December 1887 in Budapest)
15 February 1954, Matt Groening, creator of The Simpsons, was born.
1953,
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 June 1953, Albert Gliezes, French painter, died in
Avignon (born 8 December 1881 in Paris)
29 April 1953, Moise Kisling,
Polish-born French painter, died near Toulon (born 22 January 1891 in Cracow)
23 March 1953, Raoul Dufy, French painter (born 3 June 1877
in Le Havre, France) died in Forcalquiers, France.
6 January 1952, Charles Ginner, British painter, died in
London (born 4 March 1878 in Cannes)
1951,
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
24 July 1938, Pedro Figari,
Uruguayan painter, died in Montevideo (born 29 June 1861 in Montevideo)
22 May 1938, Painter William
Glackens died in Westport, |Connecticut, aged 68.
23 January 1938, Georg Baselitz,
German painter and sculptor, was born in Saxony.
2 January 1938, David Bailey,
photographer, was born.
1937, The Euston Road
School of Art began as the School of Drawing and Painting at 12 Fitzroy
Street, London, moving to nearby 316 Euston Road soon after.
22 November 1937, Philip de
Laszlo, Hungarian portrait painter, died in London (born 30 April
1869 in Budapest)
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)
11 January 1936, Eva Hesse,
German-born US artist, was born in Hamburg (died 29 May 1979 in New York)
1935,
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
16 June 1935, Jim
Dine, US painter, was born in Cincinatti.
13 June 1935, Christo Javachev and his partner Jean Claude,
artists, were born.
8 February 1935, Max Leibermann, painter, died in Berlin aged
87.
10 August 1934, John Kane, Scottish-born US painter, died in
Pittsburgh (born 19 August 1860 in West Calder)
11 May 1934, Mark Boyle, artist, was born (died 2 May 2005)
1932,
23 September 1932, Jules Cheret, French painter, died in Nice
(born 31 May 1836 in Paris)
19 August 1932, Louis Anquetin, French painter, died in Paris
(born 26 January 1861 in Eure)
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.
7 March 1931, Theo
van Doesburg, Dutch painter, died in Davos,
Switzerland (born 30 August 1883 in Utrecht)
11 January 1931, Giovanni
Boldini, Italian painter, died in Paris
(born 321 December 1842 in Ferrara)
1930,
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.
20 June 1930, Magdalena
Abakanowicz, Polish sculptor, was born in
Felenty, near Warsaw.
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.
1929,
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.
28 April 1929, Avigdor
Arikha, Romanian-born Israeli painter, was
born in Radauti.
1 March 1929, Wilhelm
von Bode, German art historian, died in
Berlin (born 10 December 1845 near Magdeburg)
24 October 1928, Arthur
Bowen Davies, US painter, died in Florence (born
26 September 1862 in Utica, New York)
17 August 1928, Sir
Frank Dicksee, British painter, died in London
(born 27 November 1853 in London)
6 August 1928, Andy Warhol, US artist, was born.
10 July 1928, Bernard Buffet, French painter,
was born in Paris (died 4 October 1999 in Var)
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)
27 February 1927, Sir Luke Fildes,
English painter, died in London (born 18 October 1844 in Liverpool)
9 February 1927, Norman Adams, artist, was born
(died 10 March 2005).
1926,
6 December 1926. Impressionist
painter Claude Monet died as a recluse
in Coventry, aged 86.
17 September 1926, Lawrence Alloway, British art cr8itic, was
born in London (died 2 January 1990 in New York)
10 September 1926, Beryl Cook, painter, was born.
14 June 1926, Mary Cassatt, artist, died.
1925,
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.
8 July 1925, Robert Bevan, British painter, died in London
(born 5 August 1865 in Hove, Sussex)
5 July 1925, Fernando de Szyszlo, artist, was born in Lima,
Peru (died 2017)
7 June 1925, Karl Weschke, landscape painter, was born
(died 20 February 2005).
31 May 1925, The Decorative Arts (Art Deco) Exhibition opened in Paris.
14 April 1925, John Singer Seargant, US painter,
died aged 69.
8 January 1925, George Wesley Bellows, US painter, died in New
York (born 12 August 1882 in Columbus, Ohio)
1924,
27 December 1924, Leon Bakst, Russian painter, died in Paris
(born 1866 in Grodno)
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.
20 March 1924, Fernand Cormon, French painter, died in Paris
(born 24 December 1845 in Paris)
8 March 1924, Sir Anthony Caro, sculptor, was born.
7 March 1924, Sir Eduardo Paolozzi, sculptor, was born (died
22 April 2005)
1923,
25 June 1923, Sam Francis, US painter, was born in San
Mateo, California (died 4 November 1994 in Santa Monica, California)
5 June 1923, George Hendrik Breitner, Dutch painter, died
in Amsterdam (born 12 september 1857 in Rotterdam)
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
3 July 1922, Cornelis von Beverloo, Belgian
painter, was born in Liege.
26 April 1922, Pol Bury, Belgian sculptor, was
born in Haut Saint Pierre.
24 February 1922, Richard Hamilton, English painter, was born
(died 2011)
8 January 1922, Jan Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, was born.
1921,
12 May 1921, Joseph Beuys, German sculptor,
was born in Krefeld (died 23 January 1986 in Dusseldorf)
25 April 1921, Karel Appel, painter, was born.
20 February 1921, Michael Ayrton,
British painter and sculptor, was born in London (died 17 November 1975 in
London)
30 January 1921, John Francis Murphy, US
landscape painter, died aged 67.
23 October 1920, Lygia Clark, Brazilian sculptor
and painter, was born in Belo Horizonte (died�
26 April 1988 in Rio de Janiero)
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.
1919,
The Bauhaus School of Art and Design
was founded by Walter
Gropius in Weimar. It moved to Dessau in 1925 and to Berlin in 1932,
but was closed by the Nazis in 1933.
3 December 1919, Pierre Auguste Renoir, French Impressionist painter, died near Cannes, aged 78. He was born on 26 February 1841.
29 January 1919, Richard Bergh, Swedish painter, died near
Stockholm (born 28 December 1858 in Stockholm)
21 December 1917, Wilhelm Trubner, German painter, died (born
1851)
17 November 1917, Death of 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)
1916,
18 July 1916, Kenneth Armitage, British sculptor, was born in Leeds
(died 22 January 2002 in London)
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.
1912,
12 December 1912, Conroy
Maddox, surrealist painter, was born (died 14 January 2005)
15 November 1912, Andre
Chastel, French art historian, was born in Paris (died 18 July 1990
in Paris)
11 June 1912, William
Baziotes, US painter, was born in Pittsburgh (died 4 June 1963 in
New York)
15 March 1912, Francis Gruber,
French painter, was born.
7 February 1912, Sir
Russell Drysdale, English-born Australian painter, was born in
Bognor Regis, Sussex (died 29 June 1981 in Sydney)
5 February 1912, The first exhibition of Futurist
painting was held, opening in Paris.
28 January 1912, US artist Jackson Pollock was born.
2 January 1912, Renato
Guttuso, Italian painter, was born near Palermo (died 18 January
1987 in Rome)
25 December 1911, Louise
Bourgeois, French-born US sculptor, was born in Paris.
14 March 1911, Akira
Yoshizawa, creator of modern origami, was born (died 14 March 2005)
20 February 1911, Douglas Cooper, British art historian, was born in London (died 1
April 1984 in London)
1910,
29 September 1910, US artist Winslow Homer died at his studio
in Maine.
2 September 1910, Henri �Le Douanier� Rousseau, French painter,
died.
16 July 1910, Albert Anker, Swiss painter, died in Ins,
Berne Canton (born 1 April 1831 in Ins)
13 April 1910, Sir William Quiller Orchardson, British
painter, died in London (born 1835 in Edinburgh)
14 February 1910, John Macallan Swan., English painter, died
(born 1847)
1909,
26 December 1909, Frederick Remington, US artist, died in
Connecticut (born 4 October 1861 in Canton, New York)
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)
20 March 1909, Jack Hamilton Bush, Canadian painter, was born
in Toronto (died 24 January 1977 in Toronto)
26 February 1909, Artist Emmanuel Poire, pseudonym Caran D�Ache (lead
pencil), born 1858, died.
1908,
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)
23 August 1906, Charles Biederman, US abstract artist, was
born in Cleveland, Ohio.
9 March 1906, David Smith, sculptor, was born (died 1965).
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.
18 August 1905, Albert
Edelfelt, Finnish painter, died in Haikko,
near Porvoo (born 21 July 1854 near Porvoo)
29 March 1905, Edward
Burra, English painter, was born (died
1976).
13
January 1905, Robert
Gifford, US painter, died (born 23 December 1840)
17
December 1904, Paul
Cadmus, US painter, was born in New York (died12 December 1999 in
Weston, Connecticut)
11
November 1904, Valentin
Cameron Prinsep, English artist, died (born 4 February 1838)
25 August
1904, Henri
Fantin Latour, French painter, died in Orne (born 14 January 1836 in
Grenoble)
20 June
1904, Frederick
Sandys, English painter, died in Kensington, London (born 1 May 1832
in Norwich)
11 May 1904. Spanish painter
Salvador
Dali was born in Figueras, Upper Catalonia.
15 March 1904, Mos� Bianchi, Italian painter, died (born
1840)
9 March 1904, Dow Erastus Palmer, US sculptor, died in Albany
USA (born 2 April 1817 in Pompey, New York)
14 January 1904, British photographer Cecil Beaton was born.
1903,
24 December 1903, Joseph Cornell, US sculptor, was born in New
York (died29 FDecember 1972 in New York)
13 November 1903, Camille Pisarro, painter, died,
25 September 1903, Mark Rothko, US artist, was born.
23 August 1903, Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriel, Dutch painter,
died in Scheveningen (born 5 July 1828 in Amsterdam)
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.
20 August 1902, Christian Berard, French painter, was born in
Paris (died 12 February 1949 in Paris)
25 July 1902, Alfred Choubrac, French painter and
illustrator, died from pneumonia (born 1853)
2 July 1902, Albert Namatjira, painter, was born.
13 March 1902, Hans Bellmer, artist, was born in Kattowicz,
Germany (now Katowice, Poland). He died 24 February 1975 in Paris.
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.
6 July 1901, William James Stillman, US painter, died in
Surrey, UK (born 1 June 1628 in New York State)
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.
24 October 1898, Pierre Cecile Puvis de Chavannes, French
painter, died (born in Lyons 14 December 1824)
10 October 1898, Pierre C Puvis de Chavannes, painter, died in
Paris aged 73.
26 August 1898, Peggy Guggenheim, art critic, was born.
22 July 1898, Alexander Calder, US sculptor and painter, was
born (died 11 November 1976)
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.
25 October 1897, John Sartain, US painter, died
in Philadelphia (born 24 October 1808 in London, UK)
6 October 1897, Sir John Gilbert, English painter, died (born
21 July 1817)
20 February 1897, Ivan Albright,
US painter, was born in North Harvey, Illinois (died 18 November 1983 in
Woodstock, Vermont)
2 February 1897, Homer Martin, US artist, died (born 18 October
1836).
13 August 1896, John Everett Millais, painter, died in London
aged 67.
29 June 1898, Otto Benesch, Austrian art historian, was born
in Ebenfurth (died 16 November 1964 in Vienna)
3 May 1896, Alfred Hunt,
English painter, died (born 1830)
2 April 1896, Theodore
Robinson, US artist, died in new York City
(born 1852 in Vermont)
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)
19 April 1895, Sir
George Scharf, British art critic, died (born 16
December 1820 in London)
8 February 1895, Jean
Francois Portaels, Belgian painter, died in
Brussels (born 30 April 1818 in Vilvorde)
3 January 1895, James M
Ives, New York arts publisher, died (born
5 March 1824)
26 September 1894, Launt
Thompson, US sculptor, died in New York State
(born 8 February 1833 in Ireland)
21 February 1894, Gustave
Caillebotte, French painter, died near Paris
(born 18 August 1848 in Paris)
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.
8 March
1894, Walno
Aaltonen, Finnish sculptor, was born in Marttila near Turku (died 30
May 1966 in Helsinki)
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
9 April 1893, Charles Burchfield, US painter, was born in
Ohio (died 10 January 1867 in West Seneca, New York)
6 April 1893,
Vicat Cole,
English painter, died (born 17 April 1833)
21 March 1893, John Pettie, Scottish pa9inter, died in
Hastings (born in Edinburgh 17 March 1839)
14 September 1891, Johannes Bosboom, Dutch painter, died in The
Hague (born 18 February 1817 in The Hague)
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)
31 October 1890, Gerard Leslie Brockhurst, British born
painter, was born in in Birmingham (died in New Jersey, USA, 4 May 1978)
23 October 1890, Michel Marie Charles Verlat, Belgian painter,
died in Antwerp (born 25 November 1824 in Antwerp)
30 August 1890, Marianne North, English flower painter, died
in Alderly, Gloucestershire born 24 October 1830 in Hastings)
27 August 1890, Ray Mann, artist, was born.
20 July 1890, Sir Richard Wallace, founder of the Wallace
art collection, died in Paris (born 26 July 1818 in London)
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)
23 January 1889, Alexandre Cabanel, French painter, died in
Paris (born in Montpellier 28 September 1823)
17 May 1889, William Beverley, English painter, died in
Hampstead, London (born in Richmond, Surrey)
17 March 1889, Harry Clarke, Irish stained glass designer,
was born in Dublin (died in Coire, Switzerland, 6 January 1931)
22 January 1889, Willi Baumeister, German abstract painter, was
born in Stuttgart (died 31 August 1955 in Stuttgart)
20 November 1888, Nathaniel Currier, New York arts publisher,
died (born 27 March 1813)
31 July 1888,
Frank Holl,
English painter, died (born 4 July 1845)
10
July 1888, Giorgio de Chirico,
Italian painter, was born in Volos, Greece (died 20 November 1978 in Rome)
19
March 1888, Josef Albers, German
born painter, was born in Bottrop (died 25 March 1976 in New Haven, USA)
15
March 1888, Leonard Morel-Ladeuil, French sculptor, died.
21
December 1887, Frederick Antal, Hungarian
born art historian, was born in Budapest (died 4 April 1954 in London)
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.
30 May 1887, Alexander Archipenko, Russian born sculptor,
was born in Kiev (died 25 February 1964 in New York)
23 March 1887, Juan Gris, painter, was born.
22 September 1886, Roger Bissiere, French painter, was born in
Lot et Garonne (died 2 December 1864 in Lot et Garonne)
17 September 1886, Asher Durand,
US painter, died (born 21 August 1796)
6 September 1886, Jean
Arp, French sculptor, was born in
Strasbourg (died7 June 1966 in Basle)
10 July 1886, Henry Brown, US sculptor, died (born 24
February 1814)
16 May 1886, James Cowie, Scottish painter, was born in
Aberdeenshire (died 18 April 1956)
12 February 1886, Randolph Caldecott, English artist, died (born
22 March 1846)
8 January 1886, Richard Dadd, English painter, died (born 1
August 1817 in Chatham, Kent)
1885,
9 October 1885, John Bowes, English art collector, died (born
19 June 1811 in London)
16 June 1885, Wilhelm Camphausen, German painter (born 1818)
died.
18 May 1885, Alphonse Neuville, French painter, died (born
31 May 1836)
12 April 1885, Robert Delaunay, French painter, was born in
Paris (died25 October 1941 in Montpellier)
7 March 1885, Milton Avery, US painter, was born in Altmar,
New York (died 3 January 1965 in New York)
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)
28 September 1883, Boris Anrep, Russian born painter, was born in
St Petersburg (died 7 June 1969 in London)
14 July 1883, Edward Calvert, English painter, died in
London (born 20 September 1799 in Appledore, Devon)
30 April 1883, Edouard Manet, artist, died.
3 February 1883, Camille Bombois, French painter, was born
(died 11 June 1970in Paris)
23 January 1883, French artist Gustave Dore
(born 6 January 1832 in Strasbourg|) died in Paris.
1882,
19 October 1882, Umberto Boccioni, Italian
Futurist painter, was born in reggio di Calabria (died 17 August 1916 near
Verona)
12 August 1882, George Wesley Bellows, US painter, was born in
Columbus Ohio (died 8 January 1925 in New York)
21 July 1882, David Burliuk, painter, was born in Kharkiv,
Ukraine (died 15 January 1967)
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.
13 May 1882, Georges Braque, French painter, was born in
Argenteuil (died 31 August 1863 in Paris)
7 January 1882, John Jones, English art collector, died.
1881,
24 May 1881, Samuel Palmer, English landscape painter, died
in Reigate (born 27 January 1805 in London)
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.
20 August 1879, William Rimmer, US artist, died (born in
Liverpool, England, 20 February 1816)
3 August 1879, Joseph Severn, English portrait painter, died
in Rome (born 7 December 1793 in Hoxton, London)
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.
23 April 1878, Friedrich Preller, German landscape painter,
died in Weimar (born 25 April 1804 in Eisenach)
1 February 1878, George Cruikshank, English artist, died (born
27 February 1792)
1877, The Grosvenor Art Gallery, London, was opened by painter Sir Coutts
Lindsay. (1824-1913) and Charles E Halle, son of musician Sir Charles Halle.
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)
23 March 1876, Sir
Mulrhead Bone, British draughtsman, was born in Glasgow (died 21
October 1953 in Oxford)
19 February 1876, Constantin Brancusi, sculptor, was born in
Romania.
22 January 1876, Sir George Harvey, Scottish painter, died
(born 2/1806)
1875,
12 October 1875, Jean Carpeaux, French
sculptor, died (born 11 May 1827)
11 October 1875, Jean Baptiste Carpeaux, French sculptor, died in Courbevoie (born 11 May 1827 in
Valenciennes)
4 October 1875, Alexander Runciman, Scottish historical
painter, died in Edinburgh (born 1736 in Edinburgh)
3 October 1875, Gerardo Murillo Atl, Mexican painter, was born
in Guadalajara (died14 august 1964 in Mexico City)
8 September 1875, John George Pinwell, English water colour
painter, died (born 1842 in Wycombe)
21 July 1875, Colvin Smith, Scottish portrait painter, died
in Edinburgh (born 1795 in Brechin)
25 June 1875, Antoine Barye, French
sculptor, died (born in Paris 24 September 1796)
5 June 1875, Frederick Walker, English artist, died in
Perthshire (born 24 May 1840 in Marylebone, London)
1 May 1875, Alfred Stevens, British sculptor, died in
London (born 28 January 1818 in Blandford, Dorset)
20 January 1875, French painter Jean Francois Millet died in
Barbizon.
1874,
21 November 1874, Mariano Fortuny, Spanish painter, died (born
11 June 1838)
10 October 1874, Thomas Shotter Boys, English watercolour
painter, died in London (born 2 January 1803 in London)
27 August 1874, John Foley, Irish
sculptor, died (born 24 May 1818).
5 May 1874, Marc Gleyre, French painter,
died (born 2 May 1806).
15 April 1874, First art exhibition by the new Impressionist school.
7 April 1874, Wilhelm von Kaulbach, German painter, died.
1 October 1873, Sir Edwin Landseer, painter, died in London.
27 June 1873, Hiram Powers, US sculptor died (born in
Woodstock, Vermont, 29 June 1805)
24 April 1873, Andre Bauchant, French painter,
was born in Inder et Loire (died 12 August 1958 in Montoire sur Loire)
1872,
22 October 1872, George Mason, English painter, died.
24 August 1872, Sir Max Beerbohm, British writer, was born in
London (died 20 May 1956 in Rapallo)
21 August 1872, Aubrey Beardsley, English artist, was born in
Brighton (died in Mentone 16 March 1898)
5 June 1872, Thomas Sully, US artist, died in Philadelphia
(born 8 June 1782 in Horncastle, England)
31 May 1872, Illustrator and
cartoonist Heath Robinson
was born. He was famous for his drawings of absurdly complicated machinery
performing simple tasks.
4 April 1872, Gilbert Bayes, British sculptor, was born in
London (died 10 July 1953 in London)
7 March 1872, Piet Mondrian, painter, was born.
13 December 1871, Emily Carr, Canadian expressionist painter,
was born in Victoria, British Columbia (died 2 March 1945 in Victoria)
18 July 1871, Giacomo Balla, Italian painter and sculptor,
was born in Turin (died 1 March 1958 in Rome)
25 March 1871, American sculptor,
Gutzon
Borglum, was born near Bear Lake, Idaho.
1870,
9 December 1870, �Maximillian
Ainmuller, German artist, died (born in Munich, 14 February 1807)
28 November 1870, Frederic Bazille, French painter, died in
Beaune la Rolande (born 6 December 1841 in Montpellier)
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.
2 January 1870, Ernst Barlach, German sculptor, was born in
Wedel, near Hamburg (died24 October 1938 in Rostock)
1869,
31 December 1869, Henry Matisse, artist, was born.
10 June 1869, Frederic Hurlstone, English painter, died
(born 1800)
31 May 1869, Walter Bayes, English painter, was born in
London (died 21 January 1956 in London)
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 October 1868, Charles Conder, English painter, was born in
London (died 9 February 1909 in Virginia Water, Surrey)
24 July 1868, George Cattermole, English painter, died (born
1800).
18 July 1868, Emanuel Leutze, US artist, died (born 24 May 1816)
28 April 1868, Emile Bernard, French painter, was born in
Lille (died16 April 1941 in Paris)
29 March 1868, Felix Slade, English arts patron, died (born
August 1790 in Lambeth, London)
1867,
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.
10 March 1867, Leonard Raven-Hill, English artist, was born
27 February 1867, John Phillip, Scottish painter, died in London
(born in Aberdeen, 19 April 1817)
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.
1866,
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)
5 August 1865, Robert Bevan, British painter,
was born in Hove, Sussex (died 8 July 1925 in London)
26 June 1865, Bernard Berenson, US art
historian, was born in Butremancz, Lithuania (died6 Octobe r1959 in Settignano)
1864,
25 November 1864, David Roberts,
Scottish painter, died (born 24 October 1796 in Edinburgh)
24 November 1864, Henri de
Toulouse Lautrec, painter, was born.
29 September 1864, Rupert Bunny,
Australian painter, was born near Melbourne (died 26 May 1947 in Melbourne)
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)
1863,
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)
1862,
3 December 1862, Charles Grafly,
US sculptor, was born.
29 July 1862, Robert
Reid, US artist, was born in Stockbridge, Massachusetts.
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.
30 October 1861, Emile Antoine Bourdelle, French sculptor, was
born in Montauban (died 1 October 1929 in Le Vesinet, near Paris)
4 October 1861, Frederick Remington, US artist, was born in
Canton, New York (died 26 December 1909 in Connecticut)
12 September 1861, Wilton Lockwood,
US artist, was born.
9 July 1861, Sir William
Burrell, Scottish art collector, was born in Glasgow (died 29 March
1958 in Berwick on Tweed)
11 April 1861, William Ordway
Partridge, US sculptor, was born (died 22 May 1930),
9 April 1861, Sir Charles Holroyd, British artist, was born.
16 February 1861, Samuel Lovett Waldo, US artist, died in New
York (born 6 April 1783 in Connecticut)
9 February 1861, Francis Danby, English painter, died (born 16
November 1793)
31 January 1861, Jacques Emile Blanche, French painter, was
born in Paris (died 30 September 1942 in Offranville)
26 January 1861, Louis Anquetin, French painter, was born in
Eure (died 19 August 1932 in Paris)
1860,
3 October 1860, Rembrandt Peale, US artist, died in
Philadelphia (born in Pennsylvania 22 February 1778)
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.
29 April 1860, Lorado Taft, US sculptor, was born in Elmwood,
Illinois.
1 December 1859, Alfred Rethel, German historical painter, died
in Dusseldorf (born 1816 in Aix la Chapelle)
21 June 1859, Henry Ossawa Tanner, artist, was born in
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania.
7 June 1859, David Cox, English painter, died (born 29
April 1783).
5 May 1859, Charles Leslie, English painter, died (born 19
October 1794)
1858,
28 December 1858, Richard Bergh, Swedish painter, was born in
Stockholm (died 29 UJanuary 1919 near Stockholm)
12 October 1858, Painter Ando Hiroshige died in Edo,
Japan, aged 61.
17 September 1858, Robert William Vonnoh, US painter, was born in
Hartford, Connecticut.
12 September 1858, Fernand Khnopff, Belgian painter, was born.
12 May 1858, Horatio Walker, US artist, was born in
Ontario, Canada.
26 March 1858, William Thomas Smedley, US artist, was born in
Pennsylvania.
14 February 1858, Carl Marr, US artist, was born.
28 January 1858, Herbert Adams, US sculptor (died 21 May .1945)
was born.
1857,
12 September 1857, George Hendrik Breitner, Dutch painter, was
born in Rotterdam (died 5 June 1923 in Amsterdam)
1 August 1857, Charles Turner, English engraver, died (born
1773 in Woodstock)
9 July 1857, Robert Blum,
US artist, was born in Cincinnatti, Ohio, (died in New York City 8 June 1903)
19 June 1857, Francis Job
Short, English engraver, was born in Stourbridge, Worcestershire.
2 February 1857, Charles Davis,
US landscape painter, was born.
1856,
27 October 1856, Kenyon Cox, US painter,
was born in Ohio.
8 October 1856, Theodore Chasseriau, French painter, died in
Paris (born 20 September 1819 in the Dominican Republic)
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)
1855,
3 November 1855, Francois Rude, French sculptor, died (born in
Dijon 4 June 1784)
28 September 1855, George Brush, US painter, was born.
6 September 1855, Julius L Stewart, US artist, was born in
Philadelphia.
1 May 1855, Cecilia Beaux, US painter, was born in
Philadelphia 9died 17 september 1942 in Gloucester, Massachusetts)
27 February 1855, Jakub Schikaneder, Bohemian painter, was born
(died 15 November 1924).
24 January 1855, Charles Henry Niehaus, US sculptor, was born
in Cincinnati, Ohio.
19 January 1855, Jean Guerin, French painter, died (born 25
March 1783).
22 December 1854, Benedict Fogelberg, Swedish sculptor, died
(born 8 August 1786).
23 October 1854, William Lamb Picknell, US landscape painter,
was born in Vermont (died 8 August 1897 in Massachusetts)
21 October 1854, Leonard Ochtman, US painter, was born in
Zonnemaire, Holland.
10 February 1854, Giovanni Muzzioli, Italian painter, was born
(died 5 August 1894).
11 December 1853, John Murphy, US landscape painter, was born.
5 March 1853, Howard Pyle, US artist, was born in
Wilmington, Delaware.
17 January 1853, Thomas Harrison, US artist, was born.
1852,
18 December 1852, Horatio Greenhough, US sculptor, died (born 6
September 1805).
10 December 1852, Henri Gervex, French Painter, was born.
27 October 1852, Edward Emmerson Simmons, US painter, was born
in Concord, Massachusetts.
20 September 1852, William Finden, English line engraver, died
(born 1787)
30 May 1852, George Chinnery, English painter, died in
Macao (born 7 January 1774 in London)
18 April 1852, Sir George Clausen, British painter, was born
in Lonbdon (died 22 November 1944 near Newbury)
1 April 1852, Edwin Austin Abbey,
US painter, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
10 February 1852, Samuel
Prout, English water colour painter, died
(born 17 September 1783 in Plymouth)
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).
13 October 1851, Charles Sprague Pearce, US artist, was born in
Boston, Massachusetts.
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.
23 February 1850, Sir William Allan, Scottish historical
painter, died in Edinburgh (born 1782 in Edinburgh)
1849,
27 December 1849, Jacques-Laurent Agasse, Sewiss-born animal
painter, died in London (born 24 March 1767 in Geneva)
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)
9 June 1849, Michael Ancher, Danish painter, was born in
Rutsker (died 19 September 1927 in Skagen)
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)
1848,
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.
18 August 1848, Gustave Caillebotte, French painter, was born in Paris (died 21
February 1894 in Gennevilliers, near Paris)
7 June 1848, Paul Gauguin, French painter,
was born in Paris.� He was the son of a
journalist.
18 February 1848, Louis Comfort Tiffany, US artist, was born in
New York City
11 February 1848, Thomas Cole, US landscape painter, died (born
1 February 1801)
8 February 1848, Thomas Cole, US landscape painter, died in
Catskill, New York (born 1 February 1801 in Bolton, Lancashire)
1847,
25 December 1847, Frederick Dielmann, US painter, was born.
10 November 1847, Frederick Bridgman, painter, was born.
29 August 1847, William Simson, Scottish painter, died in
London (born 1800 in Dundee)
19 March 1847, Albert Pinkham Ryder, US artist, was born in
New Bedford, Massachusetts.
17 March 1847, Jean Gerard,
French caricaturist, died (born 13 September 1803)
1 March 1847, Sir Thomas
Brock, English sculptor, was born in Worcester (died 22 August 1922
in London)
17 February 1847, William Collins,
English painter, died in London (born 18 September 1788 ib London)
1846,
3 November 1846, Francis Millet,
US artist, was born.
22 March 1846, Randolph
Caldecott, English artist, was born (died 12 February 1886)
1 March 1846, Alfred Philippe
Roll, French painter, was born in Paris.
29 January 1846, Frederic Porter
Vinton, US portrait painter, was born in Bangor, Maine.
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)
21 January 1845, Samuel Colman, English painter, died in London
(born 1780)
5 January 1845, Robert Smirke, English painter, died in London
(born 1752 in Wigton, Carlisle)
1844,
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.
28 March 1844, William Rudolf O�Donovan, US sculptor, was
born in Virginia.
20 February 1844, Michael von Munkacsy, Hungarian painter, was
born (died 30 April 1900)
18 January 1844, Walter Satterlee, US figure painter, was born
in Brooklyn, New York (died 28 May 1908 in Brooklyn)
4 January 1844, Edward Linley Sambourne, illustrator, was born
(died 3 August 1910)
1843,
10 November 1843, John Trumbull, painter, died in New York aged
87
31 October 1843, Henri Regnault, French painter,
was born in Paris (died 19 January 1871)
27 August 1843, Benjamin Curtis Porter, US portrait painter,
was born in Melrose, Massachusetts.
9 July 1843, Washington Allston, US artist, died in
Cambridge, Massachusetts (born 5 November 1779 in Waccamaw, South Carolina)
14 May 1843, Henry Oliver Walker, US artist, was born in
Boston, Massachusetts.
31 December 1842, Giovanni Boldini, Italian painter, was born in
Ferrara (died 11 January 1931 in Paris)
17 November 1842, John Varley, English water colour painter,
died in London (born 17 Augiust 1778 in Hackney, London)
26 October 1842, Vassili Vassilievich Vereshchagin, Russian
artist, was born (died 13ril 1904)
24 July 1842, John Cotman, English landscape painter, died
(born 16 May 1782)
1841,
25 November 1841, Sir Francis Chantrey, English sculptor, died
(born 7 April 1782)
6 December 1841, Frederic Bazille, French
painter, was born in Montpellier (died 28 November 1870 in Beaune la Rolande)
31 October 1841, Sir George Reid, Scottish artist, was born in
Aberdeen.
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.
1840, The Glasgow School of Art was founded as the School of Design.
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.
27 October 1840, John Thomson, Scottish landscape painter, died
in Ayrshire (born 1 September 1778 in Ayrshire)
24 May 1840, Frederick Walker, English artist, was born in
Marylebone, London (died 5 June 1875 in Perthshire)
10 April 1840, Alexander Naysmyth, Scottish
painter, died (born 9 September 1758).
19 March 1840, Thomas Daniell, English landscape painter,
died (born 1749)
1839,
30 December 1839, William Hilton, English painter, died (born 3
June 1786)
31 July 1819, Jurriaen Andriessen, Dutch painter, died in Amsterdam (born 12 June 1`742 in Amsterdam)
30 April 1839, Robert Minor, US satirical
painter, was born (died 4 August 1904).
17 March 1839, John Pettie, Scottish painter,
was born in Edinburgh (died 21 February 1903 in Hastings)
16 February 1839, George Bissell, US sculptor, was born in New
Preston, Connecticut.
28 January 1839, Sir William Beechey, English painter, died in
London (born 12 December 1753 in Burford, Oxfordshire)
19 January 1839, Paul Cezanne, French artist,
was born in Aix en Provence, France.
1838,
10 October 1838, David Neal, US artist, was born.
11 June 1838, Mariano Fortuny, Spanish painter, was born
(died 21 November 1874).
4 February 1838, Valentine Cameron Prinsep, English artist, was
born (died 11 November 1904)
9 August 1837, Xavier Sigalon, French painter, died of
cholera in Rome
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)
15 October 1836, James Tissot, French painter, was born in
Nantes (died 8 August 1902 in Doubs)
31 May 1836, Alphonse Neuville, French painter, was born
(died 18 May 1885).
20 March 1836, Sir Edward John Poynter, English painter, was
born in Paris.
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)
8 January 1836, Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, Dutch-born painter, was born in Dronrijp, Friesland (died 25 June
1912 in Weisbaden)
1835,
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.
20 March 1835, Louis Leopold Robert, French
painter, died (born in Neuchatel, Switzerland, 13 May 1794)
19 July 1834, Edward Degas, painter,
was born in Paris.
11 July 1834, James McNeill Whistler, painter, was born.
27 April 1834, Thomas Stothard, English painter, died in
London (born 17 August 1755 in London)
2 April 1834, Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, French sculptor, was born in Colmar, Alsace (died4 October 1904 oin
Paris)
1833,
14 November 1833, William Trost Richards, US painter, was born
in Philadelphia., Pennsylvania (died 8 November 1905 in Newport, Rhode Island)
28 August 1833, Sir Edward Burne-Jones, English painter, was born.
7 July 1833, Felicien Rops, Belgian
painter, was born in Namur (died 23 August 1898 in Seine et Oise).
6 July 1833, Pierre Guerin, French painter,
died (born 13 May 1774).
20 June 1833, Leon Bonnat, French painter,
was born in Bayomnne.
28 May 1833, Felix Bracquemond, French
painter, was born in Paris (died 27 October 1914 in Sevres)
17 April 1833, Vicat Cole, English painter, was born (died 6
April 1893).
8 April 1833, Raffaello Morghen, Italian
engraver, died (born 19 June 1758)
8 February 1833, Launt Thompson, US sculptor, was born in
Ireland (died 26 September 1894 in New York State)
16 January 1833, James David Smillie, US artist, was born in
New York City (died 14 September 1909)
6 January 1833, Gustav Dore, French artist,
was born.
1832,
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.
1831,
8 December 1831, John Brett, English painter, was born in Bletchingley,
Surrey (died 7 January 1902 in London)
15 July 1831, Reinhold Begas, German sculptor, was born in
Berlin.
13 July 1831, James Northcote, English painter, died (born
22 October 1746 in Plymouth)
25 May 1831, Mather Brown, US painter, died in London (born
7 October 1761 in Boston Massachusetts)
1 April 1831, Albert Anker, Swiss painter, was born in Ins,
Berne Canton (died 16 July 1910 in Ins)
7 March 1831, Henry Moore, English painter, was born (died
22 June 1895)
1830,
10 November 1830, Jacob Epstein, British sculptor,
was born.
24 October 1830, Marianne North, English flower painter, was
born in Hastings (died 30 August 1890 in Alderly, Gloucestershire).
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).
12 November 1829, Jean Baptiste Regnault, French painter, died in Paris (born 9 October 1754 in Paris)
12 September 1829, Anselm Feuerbach, German painyter, was born in Speyer (died 4 January 1880 in
Venice)
19 August 1829, Edward Moran, US artist, was born (died 9 June
1901)
28 January 1829, Thomas Tredgold, English engraver, died in London
(born 22 August 1788 in Brandon, Durham)
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 August 1753)
23 September 1828, Richard Parkes Bonington, English painter, died in London
(born 25 Ocotber 1802 in Arnold, Nottingham)
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)
27 July 1828, Gilbert Stuart, US artist, died in Boston
Massachusetts (born 3 December 1755 in Rhode Island)
9 July 1828, Painter Gilbert Stuart died in Boston, USA,
aged 52.
5 July 1828, Paul Joseph Constantin Gabriel, Dutch painter, was born in Amsterdam (died 23 August 1903 in
Scheveningen)
16 April 1828, Francisco de Goya, Spanish
painter and etcher, died in France
aged 82.
1827,
26 November 1827, Jose Alvarez Cubero, Spanish
sculptor, died in Madrid (born 23 April 1768 in Priego de Cordoba)
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.
7 February 1827, Sir George Beaumont, English painter ad art collector,
died in Coleorton, Leicestershire (born 6 November 1753 in Great Dunmow, Essex)
1826,
8 December 1826, John Flaxman, English sculptor, died in London
(born 6 July 1755 in York)
1 October 1826, Karl von Piloty, German
painter, was born in Munich (died 21 July 1886)
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).
22 February 1826, Charles Willson Peale, US portrait painter, died in
Pennsylvania (born in Maryland 16 April 1741)
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)
9 May 1825, James Collinson, English painter, was born in
Mansfield, Nottinghamshire (died 24 January 1881 in London)
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.
1824,
14 December 1824, Pierre Cecile Puvis de Chavannes, French
painter, was born in Lyons (died 24 October 1898)
25 November 1824, Michel Marie Charles Verlat, Belgian painter,
was born in Antwerp (died 23 October 1890 in Antwerp)
9 November 1824, Anne Girodet, French painter,
died (born 5 January 1767)
5 September 1824, John Christian Schetky, Scottish marine painter, died (born
in Edinburgh 11 August 1778)
29 July 1824, Eastman Johnson, artist, was born (died 5
April 1906)
25 July 1824, William Sharp, English line engraver, died in
Chiswick (born 29 January 1749 in London)
12 July 1824, Eugene Boudin, French painter,
was born in Honfleur (died 8 August 1898 in Deauville)
23 April 1824, Richard Payne Knight, English art expert, died in London
(born 11 February 1751 in Herefordshire)
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)
1823,
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).
8 July 1823, Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish portrait painter, died in
Edinburgh (born 4 March 1756 in Stockbridge, Edinburgh
31 March 1823, William Hart, US painter, was born.
25 October 1822, James Sowerby, English natural-history artist,
died (born in London 21 March 1757)
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)
1821,
30 December 1821, Joseph Farington, English landscape painter, died in
Didsbury, Manchester (born in Leigh,. Lancashire, 21 November 1747)
13 December 1821, Sir Joseph Noel Paton, painter, was born in Dunfermline
(died 26 November 1901 in Edinburgh)
27 November 1821, Hercules Brabazon, English watercolour painter, was
born in Paris (died 14 May 1906 near Battle, Sussex)
10 September 1821, Johann Fiorillo, German
painter, died (born 13 October 1748)
28 August 1821, Thomas Seddon, English landscape painter, was born
in London (died 23 November 1856 in Cairo)
18 August 1821, Adam von Bartsch, Austrian art historian, died in
Vienna (born n17 August 1757 in Vienna)
4 July 1821, Richard Cosway, English miniature painter, died
27 May 1821, Charles Alfred Stothard, draughtsman, died
(born 5 July 1786 in London)
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)
1820,
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)
20 September 1819, Theodore Chasseriau, French painter, was born in the Dominican republic (died8 October
1856 in Paris)
5 August 1819, Arthur Fitzwilliam, US artist, was born near
Liverpool, England (died in Yonkers, New York 28 April 1905)
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)
3 June 1819, Thomas Ball, US sculptor, was born in
Charlestown, Massachusetts (died 11 December 1911 in Montclair, New Jersey)
9 January 1819, William Frith, English painter, was born (died
2 November 1909)
1818,
26 July 1818, Sir Richard Wallace, founder of the Wallace
art collection, was born in London (died 20 July 1890 in Paris)
21 June 1818, Sir Richard Wallace, art collector and
philanthropist, was born.
24 May 1818, John Foley, Irelish sculptor,
was born (died 27 August 1874).
30 April 1818, Jean Francois Portaels, Belgian painter, was
born in Vilvorde (died 8 February 1895 in Brussels)
22 March 1818, Easter Sunday; John Kensett, US painter, was
born.
1817,
8 November 1817, Andrea Appiani, Italian
painter, died in Milan (born 31 May 1754 in Milan)
13 October 1817, Julius Caesar Ibbotson, English painter, died
in Masham, Yorkshire (born 29 December 1759 in Farnley Moor near Leeds)
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).
19 April 1817, John Phillip, Scottish painter, was born in
Aberdeen (died 27 February 1867 in London)
18 February 1817, Johannes Bosboom, Dutch
poainter, was born in The Hague (died 14 September 1891 in The Hague)
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)
1816, The Fitzwilliam Art Gallery, Cambridge, was founded by a gift from 7th
Viscount Fitzwilliam (1745-1816)
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)
25 December 1815, Thomas Couture, French
painter, was born in Senlis (died 30 March 1879 in Villiers le Bel)
8 December 1815, Adolph Menzel, German
artist, was born (died 9 February 1905)
1 December 1815, George Dalziel, English wood engraver, was born in
Wooler, Northumberland (died 4 August 1902 in London)
29 September 1815, Andreas Achenbach, German landscape painter, was born (died 31 March 1910).
9 September 1815, John Singleton Copley, US portrait and historical
painter, died in London, England, aged 79.
19 June 1815, Cornelius Krieghoff, Dutch-born Canadian
painter, was born in Amsterdam (died 8 March 1872 in Chicago)
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.
1814, Dulwich Art Gallery opened; the first public art gallery.
12 October 1814, Ernest Gambart, Belgian-born
art expert, was born in Courtrai (Kortrijk) (died 12 April 1902 in Nice)
29 March 1814, Claude Michel, (Clodion), French sculptor, died in Paris (born 20 December 1738 in Nancy)
22 March 1814, Thomas Crawford, US sculptor, was born (died 10 October 1857)
26 February 1814, Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor, died in
Stockholm (born 8 September 1740 in Stockholm)
24 February 1814, Henry Brown, US sculptor, was born (died 10
July 1886)
29 June 1813, Valentine Green, English engraver, died in London
(born near Chipping Norton, oxfordshire, 3 October 1739)
2 March 1812, John Raphael Smith, English artist, died in Doncaster
(born 1752 in Derby)
15 October 1811, Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English
painter, died (born 18 May 1735)
7 January 1811, Sir Peter Francis Bourgeois, English
painter, died in London (born 1756 in London)
1810,
11 November 1810, Portrait painter Johann Zoffany died in
Middlesex, England.
31 March 1810, Luigi Lanzi, Italian art expert died in
Florence (born 13 June 1732 near Macerata)
23 January 1810, John Hoppner,
English
portrait painter, died
9 November 1809, Paul Sandby,
English
water colour painter, died in London (born 1725)
4 June 1809, Nicolai Abraham
Abikdgaard, Danish painter, died (born Copenhagen 11 September 1743)
23 February 1809, Dirck van der
Aa, Dutch painter,
died (born 1731 in The Hague)
15 April 1808, Hubert Robert,
French painter,
died (born 1753 in Paris)
5 November 1807, Angelica
Kauffman, Swiss neoclassical painter, died in Rome aged
66.
20 September 1807, Friedrich
Gauermann, Austrian painter, was born (died 7 July 1862)
9 April 1807, John
Opie, English painter, died in London aged 45.
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)
12 February 1807, David Rontgen,
German cabinet maker, died in Wiesbaden
(born 1743)
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)
1805,
6 September 1805, Horatio
Greenhough, US sculptor, was born (died 18 December 1852).
29 June 1805, Hiram
Powers, US sculptor, was born in Woodstock, Vermont
(died 27 June 1873)
19 June 1805, Louis
Lagrenee, French painter,
died (born 30 December 1721.
21 March 1805, Jean
Baptiste Greuze, French portrait
painter,m died in Paris aged 79.
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)
31 July 1804, George
Baxter, English engraver, was born in Lewes, Sussex (died
11 January 1867 in Sydenham, London)
4 May 1804, Antonio
Cavanilles, painter, died (born 16 January 1745)
25 April 1804, Friedrich
Preller, German landscape painter, was born in Eisenach (died 23 April 1878 in Weimar)
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.
25 October 1802, Richard Parkes Bonnington, English painter, was born in Arnold, Nottingham
(died 23 September 1828 in London
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)
1799,
20 September 1799, Edward Calvert,
English
painter, was born in Appledore, Devon (died 14 July 1883 in London)
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)
27 September 1798, Henri Scheffer,
painter, was born in The Hague.
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)
1796,
24 September 1796, Antoine Louis Barye, French
sculptor and painter, was born in Paris (died 25 June 1875 in Paris)
21 August 1796, Asher Durand, US painter, was born (died 17
September 1886)
6 August 1796, David Allan, Scottish portrait painter, died in
Edinburgh (born 13 february 1744 in Alloa)
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)
4 August 1795, Francisco Bayeu, Spanish
painter, died in madrid 9born 1734 in saragossa)
10 February 1795, Ary Scheffer, painter, was born in Dort, Netehrlands (died 15 June 1858 in Argenteuil)
3 January 1795, Josiah Wedgwood,
English
potter and creator of blue jasper ware,
died in Staffordshire.
1794,
19 October 1794, Charles Leslie, English
painter, was born (died 5 May 1859)
13 May 1794, Louis Leopold Robert, French painter, was born in Neuchatel, Switzerland (died 20 March
1835)
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)
5 July 1792, Sir Robert Strange, Scottish line engraver, died in
London (born 14 July 1821 in Orkney)
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)
24 September 1790, John Keyse Sherwin, English engraver, died in London
(born 1751 in East Dean, Sussex)
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)
3 December 1789, Claude Joseph Vernet, French
painter, died in Paris (born 14 August 1714 in Avignon)
19 July 1789, John Martin, English painter, was born (died 17
February 1854).
2 August 1788, 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)
1787,
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)
4 February 1787, Pompeo Batoni, Italian painter, died in Rome) (born 25 January 1708 in Lucca)
5 July 1786, Charles Alfred Stothard,
draughtsman, was born in London (died 27 May 1821)
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.
28 August 1785, Jean Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor, died ( born in Paris 26 January 1714)
26 April 1785, John James Audubon, US artist, was born in Les Cayes, St Dominique,
west Indies (died 1859)
1784,
10 August 1784, Allan Ramsay, portrait painter,
died in Dover, England,
aged 70.
4 June 1784, Francois Rude, French sculptor, was born in Dijon (died 3 November 1855)
29 May 1784, George Barret, Irish
landscape painter, died in London.
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 August 1783, Wynne William Ryland, English
engraver, was executed at Tyburn, London, for forging Bills upon the East India
Company (born 1738)
29 April 1783, David Cox, English painter, was born (died 7
June 1859)
6 April 1783, Samuel Lovett Waldo, US
artist, was born in Connecticut (died 16 February 1861 in New York)
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)
1779,
11 December 1779, Cardinal Alessandro Albani, Italian art patron, died in Rome 9born 15 October 1692 in Urbino)
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.
20 February 1779, Sir Augustus
Wall Callcott, English painter, was born in London (died 25
November 1844 in London)
1778,
22 December 1778, Simon Lantara, French
landscape painter, died (born 24 March 1729)
1 September 1778, John Thomson, Scottish landscape painter, was born
in Ayrshire (died 27 October 1840 in Ayrshire)
17 August 1778, John Varley, English water colour painter, was
born in Hackney, London (died 17 November 1842 in London)
11 August 1778, John Christian Schetky, Scottish marine painter, was born in
Edinbiurgh (died 5 September 1824)
27 March 1778, Nicolas Sebastien Adam, French sculptor, died in Paris (born 22 March 1705 in Nancy)
22 February 1778, Rembrandt Peale, US artist, was born in Pennsylvania
(died 3 October 1860 in Philadelphia).
10 March 1777, Louis Hersent,
French painter, was born (died 2 October 1860).
2 January 1777, Christian
Daniel Rauch, German
sculptor, was born in Arolsen (died 3 December 1857)
15 October 1776, John
Vanderlyn, US artist, was born in New York
(died 23 September 1852 in New York)
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)
23 December 1770, Sir Martin
Archer Shee, English portrait painter, was born in Dublin (died
13 August 1850)
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)
22 December 1768, John Crome, English landscape painter, was
born in Norwich (died 20 April 1821 in Norwich)
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)
23 April 1768, Jose Alvarez
Cubero, Spanish sculptor, was born in Priego de Cordoba (died 26 November
1827 in Madrid)
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.
1 January 1768, Jean Restout, French painter,
died (born 26 March 1692)
1767,
11 April 1767, Jean Isabey, French painter,
was born (died 1855)
24 March 1767, Jacques Laurent Agasse, animal painter, was
born in Geneva
(died 27 December 1849 in London)
5 January 1767, Anne Girodet, French painter,
was born (died 9 December 1824)
19 January 1766, Jean Nicolas Servan, French
artist, died in Paris (born 2 May 1695 in Lyons)
15 July 1765, Charles Andrew Vanloo, painter, died in Paris (born 15 February 1705 in Nice)
1 April 1765, Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian
engraver, was born in Venetia (died 7 June 1810)
1764,
27 October 1764, 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)
18 April 1763, Franz Anton Bustelli, sculptor, died in Munich (born 12 April 1723 in Locarno)
27 July 1762, Edme Bouchardon, French
sculptor, died in Paris (born 29 May 1698 in Haute-Marne)
11 January 1762, Louis Francois Roubillac, French sculptor, died (born 1692)
7 October 1761, Mather Brown, US painter, was born in Boston
(died 25 May 1831 in London)
18 August 1761, Francois Gaspard Adam, French
sculptor, died in Paris ( born 23 May 1710 in Nancy)
5 July 1761, Louis Leopold Boilly, French
painter, was born near Lille (died 4 January 1845 in Paris)
1760,
29 September 1760, William Beckford, English art colleftor, was born in
London (died 2 May 1844 in Bath)
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.
12 May 1759, Lambert Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor, died in Paris (born 10 October 1700 in Nancy)
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)
1757,
1 November 1757, Antonio Canova, Italian
sculptor, was born (died 13 October 1822)
17 August 1757, Adam von Bartsch, Austrian art historian, was born
in Vienna (died 21 August 1821 in Vienna)
21 March 1757, James Sowerby, English natural-history artist, was
born in London (died 25 October 1822)
24 July 1756, George Vertue, English engraver, died (born 1684 in
London)
6 June 1756, John Trumbull, US artist, was born in
Connecticut (died 10 November 1843 in New York)
4 March 1756, Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish portrait painter, was born
in Stockbridge, Edinburgh (died 8 July 1823 in Edinburgh)
1755,
3 December 1755, Gilbert Stuart, US artist, was born in Rhode
Island (died 27 July 1828 in Boston Massachusetts)
17 August 1755, Thomas Stothard, English painter, was born in London
(died 27 April 1834 in London)
6 July 1755, John Flaxman, English sculptor, was born (died 7
December 1826).
9 October 1754, Jean Baptiste Regnault, French painter, was born in Paris (died 12 November 1829 in Paris)
31 May 1754, Andrea Appiani, Italian
painter, was born in Milan (died 8 November 18217 in Milan)
12 December 1753, Sir William Beechey, English artist, was born
in Burford, Oxfordsh9oire (died 28 January 1839 in London)
6 November 1753, Sir George Beaumont, English painter, was born in Great
Dunmow, essex (died7 February 1827 in Coleorton, Leicestershire)
22 August 1752, Jacopo Amigoni, Italian
painter, died in Madrid.
24 January 1752, Jean Francois de Troy, French painter, died (born 1679 in Paris)
1751, William Hogarth (1697-1714)
completed his darkly satirical engraving Gin
Lane.
4 July 1749, Joseph van Aken, painter, died in London
28 May 1749, Pierre Subleyras, French
painter, died in Rome (born in Uzes, Gard, 1699)
12 March 1749, Allesandro Magnasco, painter, died aged 81 in Genoa.
29 January 1749, William Sharp, English line engraver, was born in
London (died 25 July 1824 in Chiswick)
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)
19 January 1745, John
Baptist Vanloo, French painter,
died in Aix en Provence (born 14 January 1685 in Aix)
16 January 1745, Antonio Cavanilles,
painter, was born (died 4 May 1804)
13 February 1744, David
Allan, Scottish portrait
painter, was born in Alloa (died 6 August 1796 in Edinburgh)
1743,
27 December 1743, Hyacinthe
Rigaud, French painter,
died (born in Perpignan 20 July 1659)
9 October 1743, Louis
Simon Boizot, French
sculptor, was born in Paris (died 10 march 1809 in Paris)
11 September 1743, Nicolai
Abraham Abildgaard, Danish Neoclassical painter,
was born in Copenhagen (died 4 June 1809 near Copenhagen)
14 September 1743, Nicolas
Lancret, French painter,
died (born 22 January 1660)
12 June 1742, Jurraein
Andriessen, Dutch painter,
was born in Amsterdam (died 31 July 1819 in Amsterdam)
30 October 1741, Angelica Kauffman, French
painter, was born.
11 October 1741, James Barry, English painter, was born in Cork
(died 22 February 1806).
16 April 1741, Charles Willson Peale, US portrait painter, was born in
Maryland (died in Pennsylvania 22 February 1826)
7 February 1741, Henry Fuseli, Swiss-German painter, was born (died 16 April 1825)
1740,
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)
8 September 1740, Johan Tobias Sergel, Swedish sculptor, was
born in Stockholm (died 26 February 1814 in Stockholm)
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,
15 February 1738, Matyas Bernard Braun, Austrian sculptor, died in POrague
(born 24 February 1684 near Innsbruck)
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)
1735,
18 May 1735, Sir Nathaniel Dance-Holland, English
painter, was born (died 15 October 1811)
26 December 1734, George Romney,
English
painter, was born in Dalton in Furness, Lancashire (died 15 November 1802)
23 July 1734, Andrea Sacchi, Italian painter, was born near Rome (died October 1786)
28 May 1734, Claude III Audran, French painter, died in Paris (born 25 August 1658 in Lyons)
4 May 1734, Sir James Thornhill, English
historical painter, died (born 1676 in Melcombe Regis, Dorset)
5 April 1732, Jean Honore Fragonard, painter,
was born in Grasse, France.
29 February 1732, Andre Charles
Boulle, furniture maker, died in Paris.
8 March 1731, Ferdinand Maximillian Brokof, Bohemian sculptor, died in Prague (born 12 September 1688 in
Bohemia)
27 February 1731, Francis Bird,
English
sculptor, died in London (born 1667 in London)
1730,
19 September 1730, Augustin Pajou,
French sculptor, was born in Paris (died 8 May 1809 in Paris)
12 July 1730, Josiah Wedgewood, potter,
was born at Burslem, Staffordshire.
12 February 1730, Luca Carlevaris, Italian painter,
died in Venice (born 20 January 1663 in Udine)
24 March 1729, Simon Lantara, French
landscape painter, was born (died 22 December 1778)
25 September 1728, Francesco Bartolozzi, Italian
engraver, was born in Florence (died 2 March 1815 in Lisbon)
14 May 1727, Artist Thomas
Gainsborough was born in Sudbury, Suffolk. He was the son of a cloth
merchant.
13 August 1726, Acisclo Palomino, Spanish
painter, died (born near Cordoba 1653)
21 August 1725, Jean Greuze, French painter,
was born (died 4 March 1805)
1724,
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.
12 April 1723, Franz Anton Bustelli, sculptor, was born in Locarno
(died 18 April 1763 in Munich)
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.
30 January 1721, Bernardo Bellotto, Italian
painter, was born in Venice (died 17 November 1780 in Warsaw)
1720,
10 October 1720, Charles Coysevox, French
sculptor, died (born 29 September 1640)
19 January 1719, John Boydell, English engraver, was born in
Dorrington, Shropshire (died 12 December 1804 in London)
9 December 1717, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, art historian, was
born in Stendal, Prussia.
21 November 1717, Jean Baptiste Santerre, French painter, died in Paris (born 1650 near Pontoise)
5 April 1717, Jean Jouvenet, French painter,
died.
13 December 1716, Charles de Lafosse, French
painter, died.
18 June 1716, Joseph Marie Vien, French
painter, was born in Montpellier (died 27 March 1809)
1714,
14 August 1714, Claude Joseph Vernet, French
painter, was born in Avignon (died 3 December 1789 in Paris)
26 January 1714, Jean Baptiste Pigalle, French
sculptor, was born in Paris (died 28 August 1785)
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)
24 January 1711, Jean Berain, French artist,
died in Paris (born 1640 in Lorraine)
1710,
23 May 1710, Francois Gaspard Adam, French
sculptor, was born in nancy (died 18 August 1761 in Paris)
7 December 1709, Meindert Hobbema, painter, died in Amsterdam aged 71,
25 January 1708, Pompeo Batoni, Italian
painter, was born in Lucca (died 4 February 1787 in Rome)
8 April 1707, Painter Willem van de Velde the Younger died in Greenwich,
London, aged 73.
6 April 1707, William Vandevelde, Dutch
painter, died in London (born 1633 in Amsterdam)
22 March 1705, Nicolas Sebastien Adam, French sculptor, was born in Nancy (died 27 March 1778 in Paris)
15 February 1705, Charles Andrew Vanloo, painter, was born in Nice (died 15 July 1765 in Paris)
5 September 1704, Maurice la Tour, French pastel
painter, was born (died 18 February 1788).
27 September 1703, Francois Boucher, painter, was born.
12 January 1702, Jacques Aved, French portrait
painter, was born in Douai (died 4 March 1766 in Paris)
15 May 1701, John Bushnell, English sculptor, died in London)
1700,
10 October 1700, Lambert Sigisbert Adam, French sculptor, was born in Nancy (died 12 May 1759 in Paris)
2 November 1699, Jean Simeon Chardin, French
still life painter, was born in Paris (died 6 December 1779 in Paris)
25 December 1698, Jacobus Houbraken, Dutch
engraver, was born (died 14 November 1780)
10 June 1698, Gerrit Berckheyde, Dutch
painter, died in Haarlem (born 6 June 1638 in Haarlem)
29 May 1698, Edme Bouchardon, French
sculptor, was born in Haute-Marne (died27 July 1762 in Paris)
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.
19 February 1696, Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Italian art expert, died in Rome (born 15 January 1613 in Rome)
1 January 1696, Filippo Baldinucci, Italian
artist, died in Florence (born 3 June 1625 in Florence))
3 April 1695, Melchior d�Hondecoeterk Dutch painter, died.
2 May 1695, Jean Nicolas Servan, French
artist, was born in Lyons (died 19 January 1766 in Paris)
2 December 1694, Pierre Puget, French artist,
died in Marseilles (born 31 October 1622 in Marseilles)
11 July 1694, Charles-Antoine Coypel, French painter,was born in Paris (died 14 June 1752 in Paris)
20 April 1693, Claudio Coello, Spanish
painter, died Madrid (born 2 March 1642 in Madrid)
15 October 1692, Cardinal Alessandro Albani, Italian art patron, was born in Urbino (died 11 December 1779 in
Rome)
26 March 1692, Jean Restout, French painter,
was born (died 1 January 1768)
3 April 1691, Jean Petitot, enamel painter, died (born 1608)
1690,
25 April 1690, David Teniers the Younger, painter, died aged
79.
22 February 1690, Charles le Brun, French painter,
died (born 24 February 1619)
12 September 1688, Ferdinand Maximilian Brokof, Bohemian sculptor, was born in Rothenhaus (died 8 March 1731 in
Prague)
11 July 1686, Michel Anguier, French
sculptor, died in Paris.
3 October 1685, Juan Carreno de Miranda, Spanish painter, died in Madrid) (born 25 March 1614 near Oviedo)
14 January 1685, John Baptist Vanloo, French
painter, was born in Aix ern Provence (died 19 December 1745 in Aix)
18 April 1684, Gonzales Coques, Flemish
portrait painter, died in Antwerp.
24 February 1684, Matyas Bernard Braun, Austrian sculptor, was born in
Innsbruck (died15 February 1738 in Prague)
14 January 1684, Jean-Baptiste van Loo, painter, was born.
18 February 1683, Nicolaes Berchem, Dutch
painter, died in Haarlem (born 1620 in Haarlem)
1682,
23 November 1682, Claude Gellee Claude, French
painter, died in Rome.
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, Gianlorenzo Bernini, Italian
painter, died in Rome (born 7 December 1598 in Naples)
8 January 1680, Sebastiano Conca, Italian
painter, was born in Gaeta (died 1 September 1764 in Naples)
19 October 1678, Dutch painter Samuel Dirkz van Hoogstraten
died (born 1627).
14 June 1679, Guillaume Courtois, French
painter, died in Franche-Comte (born 1628 in Franche-Comte)
28 March 1677, Wenzel Hoillar, Bohemian
etcher, died (born 13 July 1607)
16 March 1677, Evaristo Baschenis, Italian
painter, died in Bergamo (born 7 December 1617 in Bergamo)
14 November 1676, Jacques Cortois, French painter,
died in Franche-Comte (born 12 December 1621 in Franche-Comte)
20 May 1676, Jacques Courtois, French
painter, died (born 1621)
1675,
15 December 1675. Jan Vermeer died aged 43.
7 October 1675, Rosalba Carriera, pastel
portrait painter, was born in Venice (died 15 April 1757 in Venice)
30 May 1675, Jose Antolinez, Spanish painter, died in Madrid (born 1635 in Madrid)
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, Painter Salvator Rosa
died in Rome, aged 57.
16 November 1672, Esaias Boursse,
Dutch painter,
died at sea (born 3 May 1631 in Amsterdam)
5 May 1672, Samuel Cooper,
English
miniature painter, died (born 1609).
21 January 1672, Painter Adriaen van de
Velde died in Amsterdam aged 41.
8 May 1671, Sebastien
Bourdon, French painter, died in Paris (born 2 February 1616 in Montpellier)
1669,
4 October 1669. 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.
16 May 1669, Pietro da Cortona, Italian
painter, died in Rome (born in Cortonsa, Tiuscany, 1 November 1596)
24 October 1668, Petr Brandl, Bohemian
painter, was born in Prague (died24 September 1735 in Kutna Hora, near Prague)
3 September 1667, Alonso Cano, Spanish
sculptor and painter, died in Granada (born 1601 in Granada)
9 August 1667, Francois Anguier, French
sculptor, died in Paris.
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.
22 July 1664, Stefano dellla Bella, Italian
etcher, died 22 July 1664 in Florence (born 18 May 1610 in Florence)
4 May 1664, Giovani Benedotto Castiglione, Italian painter, died in mantua (born 1609 in Genoa)
11 July 1663, Lubin Baugin, French
painter, died in Paris.
20 January 1663, Luca Carlevaris, Italian
painter, was born in Udine (died12 February 1730 in Venice)
11 September 1661, Jan Fyt, Flemish
painter, died in Antwerp (born 1611 iu Antwerp)
12 April 1661, Antoine Coypel, French painter,
was born in Paris (died 7 January 1722 in Paris)
1660,
3 December 1660, Jacques Sarrazin, French
painter, died in Paris (born 1588 in Noyon)
4 October 1660, Francesco Albani, Italian
painter, died in Bologna (born 17 March 1578 in Bologna)
6 August 1660, Diego Rodriguez Velazquez, painter, died in Madrid.
22 January 1660, Nicolas Lancret, French painter,
was born (died 14 September 1743)
20 July 1659, Hyacinthe Rigaud, French
painter, was born in Perpignan (died 27 December 1743)
25 August 1658, Claude III Audran, French
painter, was born in Lyons (died 28 May 1734 in Paris)
13 September 1657, Jacob van Campen, Dutch
painter, died near Amersfoort (born 2 February 1595 in Haarlem)
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).
27 April 1656, Jan van Goyen, painter, died.
30 April 1655, Eustache le Sueur, French
painter, died (born 19 November 1617).
10 June 1654, Alessandro Algardi, Italian
sculptor (born 1602 in Bologna) died in Rome.
15 January 1654, Paul Potter, Dutch animal
painter, died (born 1625)
27 August 1651, Jacob Backer, Dutch portrait
painter, died in Amsterdam.
13 January 1651, Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch
historical and landscape painter, died in Utrecht (born 25 December 1596 in
Gorinchem)
1650,
22 June 1650, Matthew Merian, Swiss engraver, died (born 25
September 1593).
16 October 1649, Isaac Ostade, Dutch painter,
died (born in Haarlem, 1621)
15 October 1648, Simone Cantarini, Italian
painter, died in Verona (born 1612 in Pesaro)
24 August 1647, Nicholas Stone, English sculptor, died in London
(born 1586 near Exeter)
8 August 1646, Sir Godfrey Kneller, portrait painter, was
born (died 7 November 1723)
30 December 1643, Giovanni Baglione, Italian
painter, died in Rome.
18 August 1642, Reni Guido, Italian
painter, died (born 4 November 1575)
2 March 1642, Claudio Coello, Spanish
painter, was born in Madrid (died 20 April 1693 in Madrid)
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)
3 July 1640, Guiseppe Cesari, Italian Mannerist painter, died in Rome/
30 May 1640, Peter Paul Reubens, Flemish
Baroque painter, died in Antwerp.
11 November 1638, Cornelis von
Haarlem, Dutch painter, die din Haarlem (born
1562 in Haarlem)
6 June 1638, �Gerrit Berckheyde, Dutch
painter, was born in Haarlem (died 10 June 1698 in Haarlem)
1635,
25 March 1635, Denys Calvaert, Flemish painter died in Bologna.
31 October 1632, Jan Vermeer, Dutch painter, was
born in Delft, the son of an art dealer.
23 October 1632, Giovanni Battista Crespi, Italian painter, died in Milan
17 July 1632, Hendrick van Balen, Flemish
painter, died in Antwerp.
28 December 1631, Ludof Bakhuizen, Dutch painter,
was born in Emden (died 1708 in Amsterdam)
3 May 1631, Esaias Boursse, Dutch painter,
was born in Amsterdam (died at sea 16 November 1672)
19 July 1630, Daniele Crespi, Italian painter,
died in Milan.
25 December 1628, Noel Coypel, French painter,
was born in Paris (died 24 December 1707 in Paris)
15 May 1628, Carlo Cignani, Italian
painter, was born in Bologna (died 6 September 1719 in Forli)
17 March 1628, Francois Girardon, French
sculptor, was born (died 1715)
1 July 1627, Sir Nathaniel Bacon, English painter, died in Suffolk.
7 October 1626, Paul Brill, Flemish
landscape painter, died in Rome (born in Antwerp)
1625,
3 June 1625, Filippo Baldinucci, Italian
artist, was born in Florence (died 1 January 1696 in Florence)
13 January 1625, Jan Breughel, Flemish
painter, died in Antwerp (born 1568 in Brussels)
23 September 1624, Willem Buytewech, Dutch
painter, died in Rotterdam.
21 February 1624, Dirk van Baburen, Dutch
figure painter, died I Utrecht.
31 October 1622, Pierre Puget, French artist,
was born in Marseilles (died 2 December 1694 in Marseilles)
12 December 1621, Jacques Cortois, French painter,
was born in Franche-Comte (died in Franche-Comte 14 November 1676)
24 February 1619, Charles le Brun, French painter,
was born (died 22 February 1690).
7 January 1619, Nicholas Hilliard, English painter, died.
7 December 1617, Evaristo Baschenis, Italian
painter, was born in Bargamo (died 16 march 1677 in Bergamo)
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)
1615,
4 March 1615, Hans von Aachen, German
painter, died in Prague (born 1552 in Cologne)
8 April 1614. Greek-born
Spanish
painter Domenikos
Theotokopoulos, or El Greco
died in Toledo.
25 March 1614, Juan Carreno de Miranda, Spanish painter, was born near Oviedo (died 3 October 1685 in
Madrid)
8 June 1613, Ludovico Cigoli, Florentine
painter, died in Rome (born 21 September 1559 in Castello di Cigoli)
7 April 1613, Gerhard Douw, Dutch painter,
was born (died 1680).
19 August 1621, Gerbrand Eeckhout, Dutch
painter, was born (died 22 October 1674)
2 February 1616, Sebastien Bourdon, French
painter, was born in Montpellier (died8 May 1671 in Paris)
15 Janury 1613, Giovanni Pietro Bellori, Italian art expert, was born in Rome (died 19 February 1696 in Rome)
30 September 1612, Frederico Barocci, Italian
painter, died in Urbino.
1610,
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.
18 May 1610, Stefano dellla Bella, Italian
etcher, was born in Florence (died 22 July 1664 in Florence)
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.
22 September 1607, Alessandro Allori, Florentine
painter, died in Florence (born 31 May 1535)
13 July 1607, Wenzel Hoillar, Bohemian
etcher, was born (died 28 March 1677).
15 July 1606. Rembrandt,
or Harmenszoon
Van Rijn, Dutch painter, was born at
Leyden.� He was the son of a prosperous
miller.
27 February 1606, Laureint de
Lahire, French painter, was born (died 28 December 1656)
23 February 1602, Annibale
Carracci, Italian painter, died in Parma (born
1557 in Bologna)
13 January 1601, Guido Cagnacci, Italian painter, was born near Rinibi (died1663 in Vienna)
1 October 1600, Jacques Blanchard, French painter, was born in Paris (died 1658 in Paris)
1599,
6 June 1599, Diego Velasquez, Spanish painter,
was born in Seville.
22 March 1599, Sir Anthony van
Dyck, Flemish 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.
31 July 1598, Alessandro Algardi, Italian
sculptor, was born in Bologna (died 10 June 1654 in Rome)
24 December 1596, Leonaert Bramer, Dutch painter,
was born in Delft (died1674 in Delft)
13 January 1596, Jan Goyen, Dutch painter,
was born (died 1656)
2 February 1595, Jacob van Campen, Dutch
painter, was born in Haarlem (died 13 september 1657 near Amersfoort)
1594,
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)
11 July 1593, Guiseppe Arcimboldo, Italian
painter, died in Milan.
8 July 1593, Artemisia Gentileschi, painter, was born.
13 February 1592, Jacopo Bassano, Italian
painter, died in Bassano.
22 April 1592, Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian
sculptor, died in Florence (born 18 June 1511 in Settignano)
5 March 1592, Michael Coxcie, Flemish
painter, died (born 1499)
17 March 1591, Jost Amman, Swiss book illustrator, died in Nuremberg (born 1539 in Zurich)
8 February 1591, Painter Guercino (Giovanni Francesco Barbieri)
was born near Ferrara, Italy.
1590,
9 January 1590, Simon Vouet, French painter,
was born in Paris (died 1649)
12 January 1588, Guiseppe Ribera, Spanish
painter, was born near Valencia (died 1656 in Naples)
6 September 1585, Luca Cambiaso, Italian
painter, was bon near Genoa died in Escorial) (born 18 October 1527 near Genoa)
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)
15 March 1578, Francesco Albani, Italian
painrer, was born in Bologna (died4 october 1660 in Bologna)
5 February 1578, Giambattista Moron, Italian
portratit painter, died.
3 January 1578, Giulio Clovio, Italian
painter, died in Rome.
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.
23 June 1576, Levina Turlinc, miniaturist painter, died in London.
1575,
4 November 1575, Reni Guido, Italian
painter, was born (died 18 August 1642)
10 December 1574, Ascanio Condivi, Italian
painter, died (born 1525)
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.
19 January 1571, Paris Bordone, Italian painter,
died in Venice (born 1500 in Treviso)
25 December 1566, Abraham Bloemaert, Dutch historical and landscape painter, was born in Gorinchem (died 13
January 1651 in Utrecht)
18 February 1564. Michelangelo Buonarotti died in Rome, aged 88.
6 November 1561, Simon Bening, book illuminator, died in Bruges.
1560,
7 February 1560, Baccio Bandinelli, Italian sculptor and painter, died in Florence (born 12 November
1493 in Florence)
21 September 1559, Ludovici Cigoli, Italian painter, was born (died 8 June 1613 in Rome)
16 October 1553, Death of German painter Lucas Cranach
the Elder.
19 October 1552, Veronese Bonifazio, Italian painter, died in Venice.
6 December 1550, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Dutch painter, died in Brussels (born 14 August 1502 in Aelst)
22 November 1550, Sebald Beham, German engraver, died in Nuremberg.
19 October 1547, Perino del Vaga, Italian painter, died (born near Florence 28 June 1500)
24 January 1544, Gillis van Coninxloo, painter, was born in Antwerp (died 1607 in Amsterdam)
29 November 1543, German painter Hans Holbein the Younger died in
London.
1540,
24 August 1540, Francesco Parmigiano, Italian painter, died.
12 February 1538, Abrecht Altdorfer, painter, died.
12 January 1537, Lorenzo di Credi, Italian painter, died in Florence.
31 May 1535, Alessandro Allori, Italian painter, was born in Florence (died 22 September 1607 in
Florence)
5 March 1535, Lorenzo Costa, Italian painter,
died in Mantua.
5 March 1534, Antonio Allegri Correggio, Italian painer, died in Correggio.
22 January 1531, Death of Florentine painter Andrea del Sarto.
7 January 1529, Peter Vischer, German sculptor, died.
6 April 1528, Albrecht Durer, German
artist and engraver, died in Nuremberg, aged 57.
18 October 1527, Luca Cambiaso, Italian
painter, was bon near Genoa (died 6 September 1585 in Escorial)
27 July 1523, Cesare da Sesto, Italian
painter, died in Milan.
21 May 1523, Ambrogio Bergognone, Italian
painter, died in Milan.
1520,
11 April 1520, Agostini Chigi, Italian arts
patron, died in Rome (born 29 November 1466 in Siena)
6 April 1520, 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.
15 June 1516, Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, Italian painter, died in Milan.
5 November 1515, Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian
painter, died in Florence (born 13 October 1474 in Florence)
1 November 1512, Michaelangelo
unveiled his painting on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.
18 June 1511, Bartolommeo Ammanati, Italian
sculptor, was born in Settignano (died 22 April 1592 in Florence)
1510,
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.
17 November 1503, Agnolo Bronzino, Italian
painter, was born near Florence (died 23 November 1572 in Florence)
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.
14 August 1502, Pieter Coecke van Aelst, Dutch painter, was born in Aelst (died 6 December 1550 in Brussels)
1500,
1 November 1500, Birth of Benvenuto Cellini, Italian sculptor.
28 June 1500, Perino del Vaga, Italian
painter, was born near Florence (died 19 October 1547)
29 August 1499, Alessio Baldovinetti, Florentine
painter, died (born 14 October 1427)
16 January 1498, Francesco Botticini, Italian
painter, died in Florence.
24 May 1494, Birth of Jacopo da Pontormo, Renaissance artist.
11 January 1494, Domenico Ghirlandajo, Florentine
painter, died (born 1449)
12 November 1493, Baccie Bandinelli, Italian
sculptor, was born in Florence (died 7 February 1560)
28 December 1491, Bertoldo di Giovanni, Italian
painter, died near Florence.
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.
1475,
6 May 1475, Dierec Bouts, Dutch painter,
died in Louvain.
6 March 1475, Michelangelo, Italian painter and sculptor, was born in Capresse,
Tiuscany, as Michelagniolo
di Lodovico Buonarroti.
13 October 1474, Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian
painter, was born in Florence (died 5 November 1515 in Florence)
28 March 1472, Fra Bartolommeo, Italian
painter, was born in Florence (died 31 October 1517 in Florence)
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.
29 November 1466, Agostino Chigi,
Italian art patron, was born in Siena (died 11 April 1520 in Rome)
16 June 1464, Roger van der Weyden, painter,
died.
16 July 1461, Jaime Baco, Spanish painter, died in Valencia.
1455,
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.
15 April 1446, Filippo Brunelleschini, Italian
sculptor, died in Florence (born 1377 in Florence)
9 June 1441, Dutch painter Jan van Eyck, equerry to Philip the
Good, Duke of Burgundy, died.
1440,
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)
26 January 1410, Bartolo di Fredi, Italian
painter, died in Siena.
14 February 1404, Leone Battista Alberti, Italian artist, was born in Genoa (died 1472) In 1434 he published a
book on the geometry of perspective.
8 January 1337, Giotto di Bondone, Italian painter, died aged 70 in Florence.
20 November 1022, Bernward of Hildesheim, German arts patron, died in Hildesheim .
18,000 BCE, The world�s oldest
sculptures, made in Asia, have been dated to this period.
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