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 (painting)|Isle of the Dead]
• Marie Bracquemond – On the terrace at Sèvres
• Thomas Brock – A Moment of Peril
• 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, 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
• Paul Cézanne – View of Auvers-sur-Oise
• Carl Conrads - Statue of [Alexander Hamilton (Central Park)| Statue of Alexander Hamilton]
• Pierre Auguste Cot - The Storm
• Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville – The Defence of Rorke's Drift, 1879
• Edgar Degas –
• Thomas Eakins – The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand
• Giovanni Fattori – Quadrato di Villafranca
• Charles Gauthier – Cléopâtre
• 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
• 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
• 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 (painting)|The Day Dream]
• Fritz Schaper – Goethe Monument (Berlin)
• Viktor Vasnetsov – Flying Carpet
• Henry Tanworth Wells – ''''

Births

• February 1 – C. T. Loo, Chinese-born art dealer
• February 3 – Frances Darlington, English relief sculpture
• February 8 – Franz Marc, German painter and printmaker, co-founder of Der Blaue Reiter
• March 2 – Joseph Ehrismann, German-born painter and stained-glass maker
• March 21 – Hans Hofmann, German-born abstract expressionist painter and teacher
• April 4 – William Russell Flint, Scottish-born watercolourist
• April 7 – Alexander Bogomazov, Ukrainian painter, artist and modern art theoretician of Russian avant-garde
• May 6 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German expressionist painter, co-founder of Die Brücke
• June 10 – André Derain, French Fauvist painter
• August 2 – Arthur Dove, American painter
• August 22 – George Herriman, American cartoonist
• November 19 – Jacob Epstein, American-born British sculptor

Deaths

• January 4 – Anselm Feuerbach, German classicist painter
• February 19 – Constantino Brumidi, American historicist fresco painter
• September 8 – Wilhelm August Rieder, Austrian painter and draughtsman
• October 10 – Giampietro Campana, Italian art collector
• November 20 – Léon Cogniet, French historical and portrait painter date unknown
• * Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire, French sculptor
• * Henry O'Neill, Irish illustrator and antiquarian
• * Nicolae Teodorescu, Moldavian, later Romanian church painter