# 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 (German: Die Toteninsel, first two versions)
* Marie Bracquemond – On the terrace at Sèvres
* Thomas Brock – A Moment of Peril (equestrian bronze)
* 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 (granite)
* Pierre Auguste Cot - The Storm
* Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville – The Defence of Rorke's Drift, 1879
* Edgar Degas – Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery (etching)
* Thomas Eakins – The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand
* Giovanni Fattori – Quadrato di Villafranca
* Charles Gauthier – Cléopâtre (plaster)
* 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 (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
* 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 (Forest of Fontainbleau)
* 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
* Fritz Schaper – Goethe Monument (Berlin)
* Viktor Vasnetsov – Flying Carpet
* Henry Tanworth Wells – Victoria Regina

## Births

* February 1 – C. T. Loo, Chinese-born art dealer (died 1957)
* February 3 – Frances Darlington, English relief sculpture (died 1940)
* February 8 – Franz Marc, German painter and printmaker, co-founder of Der Blaue Reiter (killed in action 1916)
* March 2 – Joseph Ehrismann, German-born painter and stained-glass maker (died 1937)
* March 21 – Hans Hofmann, German-born abstract expressionist painter and teacher (died 1966)
* April 4 – William Russell Flint, Scottish-born watercolourist (died 1969)
* April 7 – Alexander Bogomazov, Ukrainian painter, artist and modern art theoretician of Russian avant-garde (died 1930)
* May 6 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German expressionist painter, co-founder of Die Brücke (suicide 1938)
* June 10 – André Derain, French Fauvist painter (died 1954)
* August 2 – Arthur Dove, American painter (died 1946)
* August 22 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (died 1944)
* November 19 – Jacob Epstein, American-born British sculptor (died 1959)

## Deaths

* January 4 – Anselm Feuerbach, German classicist painter (born 1829)
* February 19 – Constantino Brumidi, American historicist fresco painter (born 1805)
* September 8 – Wilhelm August Rieder, Austrian painter and draughtsman (born 1796)
* October 10 – Giampietro Campana, Italian art collector (born 1808)
* November 20 – Léon Cogniet, French historical and portrait painter (born 1794)
* date unknown
** Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire, French sculptor (born 1798)
** Henry O'Neill, Irish illustrator and antiquarian (born 1798)
** Nicolae Teodorescu, Moldavian, later Romanian church painter (muralist) (born 1797)