# 1884 in art

Events from the year 1884 in art.

## Events

* February 2 – First annual exhibition of Les XX opens at the 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 (bronze sculpture, version for Central Park, New York City)
* 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
* Albert Edelfelt – Boys Playing on the Shore
* Daniel Chester French – John Harvard (bronze sculpture)
* Alfred Gilbert – sculptures
** Icarus
** Study of a Head
* Félix Resurrección Hidalgo – Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho
* Henry Holiday – Dante and Beatrice
* John Lavery – On the Bridge at Grez
* 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 – Message from the Sea
* 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
* Medardo Rosso – Flesh of Others (wax sculpture)
* 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 (c.)
* Vasily Vereshchagin – Blowing from Guns in British India
* Jan Voerman – Days of Mourning

## Births

* February 5 – Vlastislav Hofman, Czech painter and architect (died 1964)
* February 12
** Marie Vassilieff, Russian-French painter (died 1957)
** Max Beckmann, German painter (died 1950)
* May 11 – Stanley Anderson, English engraver (died 1966)
* June 19 – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French writer and artist (died 1974)
* June 25 – Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German-born French art dealer (died 1979)
* June 30 – Jovan Bijelić, Serbian painter (died 1964).
* July 7 – André Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter and graphic artist (died 1974)
* July 12 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian-born painter and sculptor (died 1920)
* September 1 – Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian painter (died 1961)
* October 6 – MacDonald Gill, English designer (died 1947)
* November 14 – Derwent Lees, Australian artist (died 1931)
* December 12 (November 30 O.S.) – Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born painter (died 1967)
* December 15 – Eugeniusz Zak, Belarusian-born painter (died 1926)
* December 17 – Waldo Peirce, American painter (died 1970)

## Deaths

* January 9 – Vito D'Ancona, Italian painter (born 1825)
* January 28 – Alexander Louis Leloir, French painter (born 1843)
* June 13 – Anton Zwengauer, German painter (born 1810)
* June 19 – Adrian Ludwig Richter, German painter and etcher (born 1803)
* October 1 – Theodor Martens, German painter (born 1822)
* October 3 – Hans Makart, Austrian painter and designer (born 1840)
* October 22 – Treffle Berthlaume, Québécois sculptor (born 1803)
* October 31 – Marie Bashkirtseff, Ukrainian-French painter, of TB (born 1858)
* date unknown
** Stanisław Chlebowski, Polish painter, especially of oriental themes (born 1835)
** Lina von Perbandt, German landscape painter (born 1836)
** Carlo Randanini, Italian painter (year of birth unknown)