1883 in art

Events

• April – Exhibition of Impressionist paintings opens at the Dowdeswell Gallery in London.
• 20 April – Claude Monet moves to the house in Giverny which will be his main residence for the rest of his life.
• 28 October – Les XX established in Brussels by Octave Maus.
• J.-K. Huysmans publishes L'Art moderne.

Works

• Michael Ancher – Redningsbåden køres gennem klitterne
• Marie Bashkirtseff
• * Autumn
• * The Umbrella
• Arnold Böcklin – Isle of the Dead
• Gustave Caillebotte – Portrait of Henri Cordier
• William Merritt Chase
• * Mrs Meigs at the Piano Organ
• * Portrait of Miss Dora Wheeler
• John Collier
• * Marion Collier
• * The Pharaoh's Handmaidens
• Pierre Auguste Cot – The Storm
• Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret – Hamlet and the Gravediggers
• Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
• * The Dream
• * Ludus Pro Patria
• Luke Fildes – The Village Wedding
• William Powell Frith – A Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881
• Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer
• James Guthrie
• * A Hind's Daughter
• * To Pastures New
• Sydney Prior Hall – The three daughters of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra
• Ivan Kramskoi – Portrait of an Unknown Woman
• John Lavery –
• Benjamin Williams Leader –
• Charles-Auguste Lebourg – Labour
• Konstantin Makovsky – A Boyar Wedding Feast
• Jacek Malczewski – The Prisoners
• John Everett Millais – Portrait of the Marquess of Salisbury
• Claude Monet – Stormy Sea in Étretat
• William Morris – Strawberry Thief textile design
• Walter Osborne – Apple Gathering, Quimperlé
• Paul Philippoteaux – Gettysburg Cyclorama
• Edward Poynter – The Ides of March
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir:
• * By the Seashore
• * Dance at Bougival
• * Dance in the Country
• * The Umbrellas (Les Parapluies)
• Georges Rochegrosse - Vitellius Dragged Through the Streets of Rome by the Popoulus
• Ilya Repin – Religious Procession in Kursk Province
• William Wetmore Story – Chief Justice John Marshall
• James Tissot
• * The Bridesmaid
• * A Little Nimrod
• Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Self-portrait in a mirror
• Jan van Beers – Portrait of a Young Woman
• Henry Van Brunt and Frank M. Howe – William Washington Gordon Monument
• Vincent van Gogh
• * Cottages
• * Peasant Character Studies
• * Bulb Fields
• * Cows in the Meadow
• * Drawbridge in Nieuw-Amsterdam
• * Farm with Stacks of Peat
• * Farmhouse Among Trees
• * Farmhouses in Loosduinen near The Hague at Twilight
• * Footbridge across a Ditch
• * Landscape with a Church at Twilight
• * Landscape with Dunes
• * Landscape with Trees
• * Landscape with Wheelbarrow
• * Marshy Landscape
• * Meadows near Rijswijk and the Schenkweg
• * Peatery in Drenthe
• * Three Figures near a Canal with Windmill
• * A Wind-Beaten Tree
• Fritz von Uhde – Summer Resort
• Erik Werenskiold
• * September
• * Shepherds at Tåtøy
• W. L. Wyllie – ''''

Births

• 3 February – Camille Bombois, French naïve painter.
• 18 February – Jacques Ochs, French artist, épée and foil fencer and Olympic gold medallist.
• 12 April
• * Francis Cadell, Scottish Colourist painter
• * Imogen Cunningham, American photographer.
• 24 June – Jean Metzinger, French painter and art theorist.
• 16 July – Charles Sheeler, American modernist painter and photographer.
• 31 July – Erich Heckel, German painter and printmaker.
• 19 August – Coco Chanel, French fashion designer.
• 20 August – Caroline Risque, American sculptor and painter.
• 14 September – Richard Gerstl, Austrian painter and draughtsman.
• 9 November – Charles Demuth, American painter.
• 4 December – Felice Casorati, Italian painter.
• 24 December – Stojan Aralica, famous Serbian Impressionist painter and academic.
• 26 December – Maurice Utrillo, French painter.date unknown – Charles Jourdan, French fashion designer.

Deaths

• January 12 – Clark Mills, American sculptor
• January 19 – Guillaume Geefs, Belgian sculptor
• January 23 – Gustave Doré, French illustrator
• February 26 – Miguel Ângelo Lupi, Portuguese painter
• April 30 – Édouard Manet, French painter
• July 14 – Edward Calvert, English painter and printmaker
• August 19 – József Borsos, Hungarian portrait painter and photographer
• November 24 – Albert Fitch Bellows, American landscape painter
• December 11 – Richard Doyle, British illustrator