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.^[1]
• Ford Madox Brown begins painting the 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

Edgar Degas – Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando

• 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
• Edgar Degas
  • Miss La La at the Cirque Fernando
  • 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
• George Dunlop Leslie – Alice in Wonderland
• Édouard Manet
  • Self-Portrait with Palette
  • In the Conservatory
• 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)
• July 26 – Maria Bal, Polish model (died 1955)
• September 23 – Charles Camoin, painter (died 1965)
• October 22 – Sir Matthew Smith, painter (died 1959)
• December 18 – Paul Klee, 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, painter and pioneer photographer (born 1817)
• March 30 – Thomas Couture, 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 17 – Maurycy Gottlieb, painter (born 1804)
• August 3 – Joseph Severn, English portrait and subject painter (born 1793)
• September 5 – Camille Doncieux, first wife and model of Claude Monet (born 1847)
• September 6 – Amédée de Noé, caricaturist (born 1818)
• September 8 – William Morris Hunt, painter (born 1824)
• November 2 – Abbondio Sangiorgio, Italian sculptor (born 1798)
• November 18 – André Giroux, painter and photographer (born 1801)
• December 1 – Franz Ittenbach, religious painter (born 1813)

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