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1880 art
Events from the year 1880 in art.
Events
3 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1880 opens at Burlington House in LondonBryant Barbara 1880: Self-Portraits for the Uffizi The Royal Academy of Summer Exhibition: A Chronicle, 1769–2018 Paul Mellon Centre 2018 https://chronicle250.com/1880 15 October 2026
October – Vincent van Gogh enrolls in a beginners art course at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
Fifth Impressionist exhibition in Paris, at 10 rue des Pyramides.Impressionist Exhibitions in Paris (1874-86) http://www.visual-arts-cork.com/history-of-art/impressionist-exhibitions-paris.htm Encyclopedia of Art History 2015-06-17 The realist painter Jean-François Raffaëlli is also invited by Degas to exhibit.
Silver Studio founded by Arthur Silver in London for textile and wallpaper design.
Anton Mauve paints Changing Pasture; his palette and usage of colour influences Vincent van Gogh.
Michael Ancher marries fellow painter Anna Brøndum.
National Gallery of Canada established in Ottawa.
Awards
Grand Prix de Rome, painting: Henri Lucien Doucet.
Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
Grand Prix de Rome, music: Lucien Joseph Edouard Hillemacher.
Works
thumb|300px|Bartholdi's Lion of Belfort
Category:1880 sculptures
Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi – The Lion of Belfort
Marie Bashkirtseff – Self-portrait
Arnold Böcklin – Isle of the Dead (de Die Toteninsel, first two versions)
Marie Bracquemond – On the terrace at Sèvres
John Brett – Britannia's Realmhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/britannias-realm-197997 Britannia's Realm Art UK 15 October 2026
Thomas Brock – A Moment of Peril (equestrian bronze)
Lady Butler – The Defence of Rorke's Drift
Alexandre Cabanel – Phèdre
Gustave Caillebotte
A Balcony
Boulevard des Italiens
Boulevard Seen from Above
The Bezique Game
In a Café
Interior
Interior, Woman reading
A refuge, boulevard Haussmann
Man on the balcony, boulevard Haussmann
Man with a top-hat, seated by a window
Nude on a divan
Paul Cézanne – View of Auvers-sur-Oise
Carl Conrads – Statue of Alexander Hamilton (granite, Central Park, New York)
Pierre Auguste Cot – The Storm
Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville – The Defence of Rorke's Drift, 1879
Edgar Degas – Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery (etching)
Thomas Eakins – The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand
Giovanni Fattori – Quadrato di Villafranca
William Powell Frith – Tenby Fisherwomanhttps://artuk.org/discover/artworks/tenby-fisherwoman-181589 Tenby Fisherwoman Art UK 15 October 2026
Charles Gauthier – Cléopâtre (plaster)
James Clarke Hook – Home with the Tide
Daniel Huntington – Portrait of John Adams Dix
Ivan Kramskoi
Sergey Botkin
Ivan Shishkin
Edward Lear – The Plains of Lombardy from Monte Generoso (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
Édouard Manet
Émilie Ambre as Carmen
A Bundle of Asparagus
A Sprig of Asparagus
Albert Joseph Moore – Rose Leaves
Adolph Alphonse de Neuville – The Defence of Rorke's Drift
Frank O'Meara – Autumnal greys (Forest of Fontainbleau)
William Quiller Orchardson – Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon
Edward Poynter – A Visit to Aesculapius
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Portrait of Irène Cahen d'Anvers
By the Water
Annie Robinson – Susan Isabel Dacre
Dante Gabriel Rossetti – The Day Dream
Fritz Schaper – Goethe Monument (Berlin)
Viktor Vasnetsov – Flying Carpet
Henry Tanworth Wells – Victoria Regina
Births
February 1 – C. T. Loo, Chinese-born art dealer (died 1957)
February 3 – Frances Darlington, English relief sculpture (died 1940)
February 8 – Franz Marc, German painter and printmaker, co-founder of Der Blaue Reiter (killed in action 1916)
March 2 – Joseph Ehrismann, German-born painter and stained-glass maker (died 1937)
March 21 – Hans Hofmann, German-born abstract expressionist painter and teacher (died 1966)
April 4 – William Russell Flint, Scottish-born watercolourist (died 1969)
April 7 – Alexander Bogomazov, Ukrainian painter, artist and modern art theoretician of Russian avant-garde (died 1930)
May 6 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German expressionist painter, co-founder of Die Brücke (suicide 1938)
June 10 – André Derain, French Fauvist painter (died 1954)
August 2
Arthur Dove, American painter (died 1946)
Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire, French sculptor (born 1798)
August 22 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (died 1944)
November 19 – Jacob Epstein, American-born British sculptor (died 1959)
Deaths
January 4 – Anselm Feuerbach, German classicist painter (born 1829)
February 19 – Constantino Brumidi, American historicist fresco painter (born 1805)
September 8 – Wilhelm August Rieder, Austrian painter and draughtsman (born 1796)
October 10 – Giampietro Campana, Italian art collector (born 1808)
November 20 – Léon Cogniet, French historical and portrait painter (born 1794)
December 21 – Henry O'Neill, Irish illustrator and antiquarian (born 1798)
date unknown – Nicolae Teodorescu, Moldavian, later Romanian church painter (muralist) (born 1797)
References
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