1880 in art

Events

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. 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

Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi – The Lion of Belfort

Marie Bashkirtseff – Self-portrait

Arnold Böcklin – Isle of the Dead (German: Die Toteninsel, first two versions)

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

In a Café

Interior

Interior, or 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

Carl Conrads - Alexander Hamilton (granite)

Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville – The Defence of Rorke's Drift, 1879

Thomas Eakins – The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand

Giovanni Fattori – Quadrato di Villafranca

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)

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

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 8 – Franz Marc, German painter and printmaker, co-founder of Der Blaue Reiter (killed in action 1916)

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)

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)

date unknown

Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire, French sculptor (born 1798)

Henry O'Neill, Irish illustrator and antiquarian (born 1798)

Nicolae Teodorescu, Moldavian, later Romanian church painter (muralist) (born 1797)