# 1879 in art

Events from the year 1879 in art.

## Events

* April 10 – May 11 – Fourth Impressionist exhibition in Paris, arranged by Gustave Caillebotte at 28 avenue de l'Opéra.
* Ford Madox Brown begins painting The Manchester Murals in Manchester Town Hall (England).
* Chicago Academy of Fine Arts established.
* Guimet Museum of Asian art established in Lyon, France.
* Museum of Fine Arts Berne established in Switzerland.
* Kate Greenaway's first book, with her own colour illustrations, Under the Window: Pictures & Rhymes for Children, is published in London.

## Works

* Michael Ancher – Vil han klare pynten (Will he round the point)
* Albert Fitch Bellows – The Parsonage
* William-Adolphe Bouguereau – The Birth of Venus
* William Burges – Golden Bed
* Edward Burne-Jones – The Annunciation
* John Ward Dunsmore – Portrait of Thomas Couture (1815–1879) on His Deathbed (chalk on paper mounted on canvas)
* Edgar Degas
** The Dance Lesson (approximate date)
** Diego Martelli
** Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando
** Portrait of Edmond Duranty
** Portrait of Henri Michel-Lévy in his studio
** Portraits at the Stock Exchange
* Gustave Achille Guillaumet – Laghouat in the Algerian Sahara
* Ivan Kramskoi – Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin
* Jules Joseph Lefebvre – Diana Surprised
* George Dunlop Leslie – Alice in Wonderland
* John Seymour Lucas – The Gordon Riots
* Édouard Manet
** The Café-Concert
** Self-Portrait with Palette
** In the Conservatory
* John Everett Millais
** Cherry Ripe
** Louise Jopling
* Albert Joseph Moore – Topaz
* Vasily Perov – Pugachev's Judgement
* Pierre-Auguste Renoir – The Dreamer
* John Singer Sargent
** In the Luxembourg Gardens (Luxembourg Gardens at Twilight)
** Portrait of Carolus-Duran
* Charlotte Schreiber – The Croppy Boy (The Confession of an Irish Patriot)
* James Tissot – Mrs. Newton with a Parasol (approximate date)

## Births

* January 13 – William Reid Dick, Scottish sculptor (died 1961)
* March 27 – Edward Steichen, American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator (died 1973)
* June 4 – Mabel Lucie Attwell, English illustrator (died 1964)
* July 26 – Maria Bal, Polish model (died 1955)
* September 23 – Charles Camoin, French painter (died 1965)
* October 22 – Sir Matthew Smith, English painter (died 1959)
* November 18 – Sybil Pye, English bookbinder (died 1958)
* December 18 – Paul Klee, Swiss painter (died 1940)

## Deaths

* January 26 – Julia Margaret Cameron, British photographer in Ceylon (born 1815)
* February 10 – Honoré Daumier, French painter, sculptor and caricaturist (born 1808)
* March 21 – Valentine Bartholomew, English flower painter (born 1799)
* March 27 – Hércules Florence, French-born Brazilian painter and pioneer photographer (born 1817)
* March 30 – Thomas Couture, French painter and art teacher (born 1815)
* May 8 – Henry Collen, English royal miniature portrait painter (born 1797)
* June 24 – Eliseo Sala, Italian painter (born 1813)
* July 7 – George Caleb Bingham, American realist artist (born 1811)
* July 16 – Frederick Langenheim, German American pioneer of panoramic photography (born 1809)
* July 17 – Maurycy Gottlieb, Polish Jewish painter (born 1804)
* August 3 – Joseph Severn, English portrait and subject painter (born 1793)
* September 5 – Camille Doncieux, French first wife and model of Claude Monet (born 1847)
* September 6 – Amédée de Noé, French caricaturist (born 1818)
* September 8 – William Morris Hunt, American painter (born 1824)
* November 2 – Abbondio Sangiorgio, Italian sculptor (born 1798)
* November 18 – André Giroux, French painter and photographer (born 1801)
* December 1 – Franz Ittenbach, German religious painter (born 1813)
* Chō Kōran, Japanese poet and nanga artist (born 1804)