1884 in art

Events

• February 2 – First annual exhibition of Les XX opens at the Centre for [Fine Arts, Brussels|Palais des Beaux-Arts] in Brussels. Artists invited to show in addition to members of the group include Auguste Rodin, James McNeill Whistler and Max Liebermann.
• March – Theo van Gogh starts buying and selling Impressionist works, beginning with a painting by Pissarro.
• April – Camille Pissarro moves to Éragny-sur-Epte.
• May 15–July 15 – Groupe des Artistes Indépendants stages the first officially sanctioned open exhibition of contemporary art in Paris.
• July 29 – Société des Artistes Indépendants established in Paris under the leadership of Albert Dubois-Pillet.
• August 30 – Austrian painter Marianne Preindlsberger marries English painter Adrian Scott Stokes.

Works

• Michael Ancher – Portrait of my wife, the painter Anna Ancher
• Henry Baerer – Ludwig van Beethoven
• Marie Bashkirtseff – The Meeting
• Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz – A Negress
• Jules Breton – The Song of the Lark
• Gustave Caillebotte
• * Houses at Trouville
• * Man at his bath
• * Man wearing a blouse
• * The Yellow Fields at Gennevilliers
• Gustaf Cederström – Funeral procession of King Charles XII
• Giuseppe De Nittis – Breakfast in the Garden
• Albert Edelfelt – Boys Playing on the Shore
• Daniel Chester French – John Harvard
• Jean-Léon Gérôme – A [Roman Slave Market]
• Alfred Gilbert – sculptures
• * Icarus
• * Study of a Head
• John Atkinson Grimshaw – The Thames by Moonlight with Southwark Bridge
• Félix Resurrección Hidalgo – Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho
• Henry Holiday – Dante and Beatrice
• John Lavery – '
• Frederic Leighton – Cymon and Iphigenia
• John Seymour Lucas – After Culloden, Rebel Hunting
• Juan Luna – Spoliarium
• Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier – The Siege of Paris in 1870
• John Everett Millais
• * An Idyll of 1745
• * '
• Albert Joseph Moore – Reading Aloud
• Edvard Munch – Morning
• John O'Connor – From Pentonville Road looking west, evening
• Anna Petersen – Breton Girl Looking After Plants in the Hothouse
• Edward Poynter – Diadumenè
• Medardo Rosso – Flesh of Others
• John Singer Sargent
• * Auguste Rodin
• * Portrait of Madame X
• Giovanni Segantini - The Bad Mothers
• Georges-Pierre Seurat – Bathers at Asnières
• Alfred Sisley – The Port of Moret-sur-Loing
• Marie Spartali Stillman – Madonna Pietra degli Scrovigni
• Marianne Stokes – Reflection
• Abbott Handerson Thayer – The Sisters
• Félix Vallotton - Study of Buttocks
• Vasily Vereshchagin – Blowing from Guns in British India
• Jan Voerman – ''Days of Mourning''

Births

• February 5 – Vlastislav Hofman, Czech painter and architect
• February 12
• * Marie Vassilieff, Russian-French painter
• * Max Beckmann, German painter
• May 11 – Stanley Anderson, English engraver
• June 19 – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French writer and artist
• June 25 – Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German-born French art dealer
• June 30 – Jovan Bijelić, Serbian painter.
• July 7 – André Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter and graphic artist
• July 12 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian-born painter and sculptor
• September 1 – Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian painter
• October 6 – MacDonald Gill, English designer
• November 14 – Derwent Lees, Australian artist
• December 12 – Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born painter
• December 15 – Eugeniusz Zak, Belarusian-born painter
• December 17 – Waldo Peirce, American painter

Deaths

• January 9 – Vito D'Ancona, Italian painter
• January 28 – Alexander Louis Leloir, French painter
• June 13 – Anton Zwengauer, German painter
• June 19 – Adrian Ludwig Richter, German painter and etcher
• October 1 – Theodor Martens, German painter
• October 3 – Hans Makart, Austrian painter and designer
• October 22 – Treffle Berthlaume, Québécois sculptor
• October 31 – Marie Bashkirtseff, Ukrainian-French painter, of TB date unknown
• * Stanisław Chlebowski, Polish painter, especially of oriental themes
• * Lina von Perbandt, German landscape painter
• * Carlo Randanini, Italian painter