# 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 ("The Lifeboat is Taken through the Dunes")
* Marie Bashkirtseff
** Autumn
** The Umbrella
* Arnold Böcklin – Isle of the Dead (Die Toteninsel, 3rd version)
* Gustave Caillebotte – Portrait of Henri Cordier
* William Merritt Chase
** Mrs Meigs at the Piano Organ
** Portrait of Miss Dora Wheeler
* John Collier – Marion Collier
* 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 – The Bridge at Grez Archived 2022-01-03 at the Wayback Machine
* Benjamin Williams Leader – The Valley of the Llugwy
* Charles-Auguste Lebourg – Labour (sculpture)
* Konstantin Makovsky – A Boyar Wedding Feast
* Jacek Malczewski – The Prisoners
* Claude Monet – Stormy Sea in Étretat
* William Morris – Strawberry Thief textile design
* Walter Osborne – Apple Gathering, Quimperlé
* Paul Philippoteaux – Gettysburg Cyclorama
* 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 (bronze)
* 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 (continuing series)
** Peasant Character Studies (continuing series)
** Bulb Fields
** Cows in the Meadow (lost)
** Drawbridge in Nieuw-Amsterdam (watercolor)
** 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 (watercolor)
** Landscape with Wheelbarrow (watercolor)
** 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 – Toil, Glitter, Grime and Wealth on a Flowing Tide

## Births

* 3 February – Camille Bombois, French naïve painter (died 1970).
* 18 February – Jacques Ochs, French artist, épée and foil fencer and Olympic gold medallist (died 1971).
* 12 April
** Francis Cadell, Scottish Colourist painter (died 1937)
** Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (died 1976).
* 24 June – Jean Metzinger, French painter and art theorist (died 1956).
* 16 July – Charles Sheeler, American modernist painter and photographer (died 1965).
* 31 July – Erich Heckel, German painter and printmaker (died 1970).
* 19 August – Coco Chanel, French fashion designer (died 1972).
* 20 August – Caroline Risque, American sculptor and painter (died 1952).
* 14 September – Richard Gerstl, Austrian painter and draughtsman (died 1908).
* 9 November – Charles Demuth, American painter (died 1935).
* 4 December – Felice Casorati, Italian painter (died 1963).
* 24 December – Stojan Aralica, famous Serbian Impressionist painter and academic (died 1980).
* 26 December – Maurice Utrillo, French painter (died 1955).
* date unknown – Charles Jourdan, French fashion designer (died 1976).

## Deaths

* January 12 – Clark Mills, American sculptor (born 1810)
* January 19 – Guillaume Geefs, Belgian sculptor (born 1805)
* January 23 – Gustave Doré, French illustrator (born 1832)
* February 26 – Miguel Ângelo Lupi, Portuguese painter (born 1826)
* April 30 – Édouard Manet, French painter (born 1832; died following amputation)
* July 14 – Edward Calvert, English painter and printmaker (born 1799)
* August 19 – József Borsos, Hungarian portrait painter and photographer (born 1821)
* November 24 – Albert Fitch Bellows, American landscape painter (born 1829)
* December 11 – Richard Doyle, British illustrator (born 1824)