1883 in art
Events from the year '''1883 in the arts'''
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