1870 in art

none 1870 art Events from the year 1870 in art. Events 2 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1870 opens at Burlington House in London June 28 – Claude Monet marries his mistress and model Camille Doncieux in Paris; Gustave Courbet is a witness. July – Franco-Prussian War breaks out: Monet, Pissarro, Daubigny and the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel flee to London; Cézanne and his mistress, Marie-Hortense Fiquet, leave Paris for L'Estaque (on the French Riviera) where he predominantly paints landscapes. In August, Frédéric Bazille joins a Zouave regiment. In September the Dutch painter Lourens Alma Tadema moves permanently to London where he adopts the name Lawrence Alma-Tadema. Édouard Manet and Louis Edmond Duranty fight a duel at Café Guerbois, Paris. Russian industrialist and patron of the arts Savva Mamontov acquires the Abramtsevo Colony and hosts a group of traditionalist artists there. Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems are published,Cox, Michael The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature Oxford University Press 2004 0-19-860634-6 registration https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordchr00coxm exhumed from Elizabeth Siddal's grave. Daoud Corm goes to Rome to study under Roberto Bompiani at the Accademia di San Luca. Paintings thumb|Millais – The Boyhood of Raleigh Wilhelm Amberg – Reading from Goethe's Werther (Vorlesung aus Goethes Werther) Frédéric Bazille Countryside near Lex Studio in the rue Condamine La Toilette Cathy Madox Brown – Ford Madox Brown at his Easel Ford Madox Brown – Romeo and Juliet Edward Burne-Jones – Phyllis and Demophoon Paul Cézanne – Paul Alexis reading a manuscript to Émile Zola (1869–70; São Paulo Museum of Art) Edgar Degas The Dancing Class (c.) The Orchestra at the Opera (c.) Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ – Demosthenes Practicing Oratory (Démosthène s'exerçant à la parole) Henri Fantin-Latour – A Studio in the Batignolles (Musée d'Orsay, Paris) Anselm Feuerbach – The Judgement of Paris (c. 1869–70) Mariano Fortuny – The Spanish Wedding (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya) Jean-Léon Gérôme – Moorish Bath Arthur Hughes – You Cannot Barre Love Oute Christian Inger - Smith Rescued by Pocahontas Jean-Paul Laurens – Pope Formosus and Stephen VI (Le Pape Formose et Étienne VII) Édouard Manet La Brioche (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Effect of Snow on Petit-Montrouge (National Museum Cardiff) John Everett Millais The Boyhood of Raleigh (Tate Britain, London) The Knight Errant Pierre-Auguste Renoir ‘’Bather with a Griffon Dog’’ Madame Clémentine Valensi Stora (L'Algérienne) ‘’Odalisque’’ La Promenade Dante Gabriel Rossetti Beata Beatrix (approximate completion date) Sibylla Palmifera Dmitri Sinodi-Popov – An Old Greek James Tissot Portrait of Frederick Burnaby La Partie carrée Raja Ravi Varma – Shakuntala Sculpture Statue of Abraham Lincoln (New York City) Awards Grand Prix de Rome, painting: Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture: Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas. Grand Prix de Rome, music: Charles Edouard Lefebvre & Henri Maréchal Births January 1 – Louis Vauxcelles, French Jewish art critic (died 1943) January 11 – Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor (died 1945) February 5 – C. E. Brock, English painter and illustrator (died 1938) March 13 – William Glackens, American painter (died 1938) June 22 – Antonio Dattilo Rubbo, Italian-born painter and art teacher (died 1955) July 21 – Emil Orlík, Czech-born painter and lithographer (died 1932) July 25 – Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator (died 1966) November 4 – Basil Temple Blackwood, British book illustrator (died 1917) November 18 – Franz Metzner, German sculptor (died 1919) November 25 – Maurice Denis, French painter and decorative artist (died 1943) December 23 – John Marin, American painter (died 1953) date unknown – Arthur Diehl, English-born landscape painter (died 1929) Deaths January 17 – Alexander Anderson, American illustrator (born 1775) January 27 – Johannes Flintoe, Danish-Norwegian painter of Norwegian landscapes (born 1787) February 21 – Robert Jefferson Bingham, English-born photographer (born 1824 or 1825) March 19 – William Egley, English miniature painter (born 1798) April 25 – Daniel Maclise, Irish-born painter (born 1806) May 17 – David Octavius Hill, Scottish painter and pioneer photographer (born 1802) July 13 – Christian Albrecht Jensen, Danish painter (born 1792) August 25 – Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford, English francophile art collector (born 1800) November 7 – Cornelia Aletta van Hulst, Dutch painter (born 1797) November 28 – Frédéric Bazille, French Impressionist painter (born 1841) (killed in action) December 9 Max Emanuel Ainmiller, German glass painter (born 1807) Patrick MacDowell, Irish sculptor from Belfast (born 1799) December 12 – Martin Cregan, Irish portrait painter (born 1788) Undated – Achille Leonardi, Italian genre painter (born 1800) References Category:Years of the 19th century in art Category:1870s in art