1880 in art
Events from the year 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