1817 in art
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Works
- François Joseph BosioFrançois Joseph BosioBaron François Joseph Bosio was a French sculptor who achieved distinction in the first quarter of the nineteenth century with his work for Napoleon and for the restored French monarchy.-Biography:...
– Hyacinth Awaiting His Turn - John ConstableJohn ConstableJohn Constable was an English Romantic painter. Born in Suffolk, he is known principally for his landscape paintings of Dedham Vale, the area surrounding his home—now known as "Constable Country"—which he invested with an intensity of affection...
– Flatford MillFlatford MillFlatford Mill is a Grade I listed 18th century watermill built in 1733 in Flatford, East Bergholt, Suffolk, England. Attached to the mill is a 17th century miller's cottage which is also Grade I listed....
Births
- January 29 – John Callcott HorsleyJohn Callcott HorsleyJohn Callcott Horsley RA , was an English Academic painter of genre and historical scenes, illustrator, and designer of the first Christmas card. He was a member of the artist's colony in Cranbrook.-Life:...
, painter (d. 19031903 in art-Events:*Isadora Duncan develops free dance, a dance technique influenced by the ancient Greeks and the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.*With the support of Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Jacques Villon, Auguste Rodin and others, the first Salon d'Automne opens in Paris as a reaction to the conservatism...
) - February 15 – Charles-François DaubignyCharles-François DaubignyCharles-François Daubigny was one of the painters of the Barbizon school, and is considered an important precursor of Impressionism....
, painter (d. 18781878 in art-Events:*James McNeill Whistler sues critic John Ruskin for libel over his painting Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket. Whistler wins a farthing in nominal damages, and is bankrupted by his legal costs.-Works:...
) - February 23 – George Frederic WattsGeorge Frederic WattsGeorge Frederic Watts, OM was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement. Watts became famous in his lifetime for his allegorical works, such as Hope and Love and Life...
, painter and sculptor (d. 19041904 in art-Events:*Georges Braque leaves the Academie Humbert.*Mary Cassatt is awarded the Légion d'honneur by the French government for her services to the arts.-Works:-Paintings:*Lawrence Alma-Tadema - The Finding of Moses*Frederick McCubbin - The pioneer...
) - February 28 – Walter Hood FitchWalter Hood FitchWalter Hood Fitch was a botanical illustrator, born in Glasgow, Scotland, who executed some 10,000 drawings for various publications...
, botanical artist (d. 18921892 in art-Events:* May - The Brotherhood of The Linked Ring is founded by Henry Peach Robinson in England to promote photography as a fine art.-Paintings:*John Collier - Lilith*James Ensor - Man of Sorrows...
) - March 7 – Alexandre AntignaAlexandre AntignaJean Pierre Alexandre Antigna was a French painter.-Career:Antigna was born in Orléans, France, where his earliest training took place, under a local painter, Francois Salmon...
, FrenchFranceThe French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
painterPaintingPainting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
(d. 18781878 in art-Events:*James McNeill Whistler sues critic John Ruskin for libel over his painting Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket. Whistler wins a farthing in nominal damages, and is bankrupted by his legal costs.-Works:...
) - July 1 – Sir John GilbertJohn Gilbert (painter)Sir John Gilbert was an English artist, illustrator and engraver.-Biography:He was born in Blackheath, Surrey, and taught himself to paint. Skilled in several media, he gained the nickname, "the Scott of painting"...
, painter (d. 18971897 in art-Works:*Paul Gauguin - Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?*Jean-Jacques Henner - Portrait of Mlle Fouquier*Camille Pissarro - Boulevard Montmartre*Maurice Prendergast - Summer Visitors...
) - August 1 – Richard DaddRichard DaddRichard Dadd was an English painter of the Victorian era, noted for his depictions of fairies and other supernatural subjects, Orientalist scenes, and enigmatic genre scenes, rendered with obsessively minuscule detail...
, painter and draughtsman (d. 18861886 in art-Events:* April - New English Art Club mounts its first exhibition, at the Egyptian Hall, London, providing an alternative to the Royal Academy for younger artists, such as Philip Wilson Steer, under the influence of Paris....
) - November 3 – Ernest HébertErnest Hébertthumb|220px|Self-portrait, aged 17.Antoine Auguste Ernest Hébert was a French painter and academic.He was born in Grenoble and died in La Tronche. His painting Mal'aria was exhibited in the Salon of 1850-1851, and now hangs in the Musée d'Orsay, Paris...
, painter and academician (d. 19081908 in art-Events:*Hugh Lane founds the Dublin City Gallery.*Paul Ranson founds the Académie Ranson in Paris.*Allied Artists' Association holds its first exhibition, at the Royal Albert Hall in London....
) - November 22 – François BonvinFrançois BonvinFrançois Bonvin was a French realist painter.Bonvin was born in humble circumstances in Paris, the son of a police officer and a seamstress. When he was four years old his mother died of tuberculosis and young François was left in the care of an old woman who underfed him...
, realist painter (d. 18871887 in art-Events:* Walter Crane illustrates "The Architecture of Art" .* Charles Lang Freer’s first Asian art purchase is a painted Japanese fan....
) - date unknown – Antoine Dominique MagaudAntoine Dominique MagaudAntoine Dominique Magaud was a French painter.Magaud was born in Marseille, France. A distinguished director of the Ecole des Beaux Arts in his native city, he excelled in mural decoration. His masterpiece is the glorification of Christian civilization in the historical gallery of the Marseilles...
, painter (d. 18991899 in art-Works:*Pierre Bonnard - Little Girl with a Cat*Jules Dalou - Monument à Alphand*Paul Gauguin - Two Women*William Harnett - Violin*Peder Severin Krøyer - Summer evening by Skagen's beach. Artist and his wife...
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Deaths
- March 27 – Josiah BoydellJosiah BoydellJosiah Boydell was a British publisher and painter, whose main achievement was the establishment of the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery with his uncle, John Boydell.-Biography:...
, publisher and painter (b. 17521752 in art-Events:*1 March - Painter Allan Ramsay elopes with and marries, as his second wife, the Jacobite heiress Margaret Lindsay.-Paintings:* François Boucher :**Marie-Louise O'Murphy**Allegory of Music...
) - September – Thomas WyonThomas WyonThomas Wyon the younger was an English medallist and chief engraver at the Royal Mint.-Life:Wyon was born in Birmingham...
, engraver of medals (b. 17921792 in art-Events:*François-André Vincent becomes a professor at the Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture in Paris.-Births:*February 24 – István Ferenczy, Hungarian sculptor *June 16 – John Linnell, English landscape painter...
) - October 13 – Julius Caesar IbbetsonJulius Caesar IbbetsonJulius Caesar Ibbetson was a British 18th-century landscape and watercolour painter.-Early life and education:...
, landscape painter (b. 17591759 in art-Works:*Giambettino Cignaroli – Death of Cato*Thomas Gainsborough – Self-portrait-Births:*January 21 – François Baillairgé, Canadian artist of woodworking, wood-carving, and architecture...
) - November 5 – Carl Haller von HallersteinCarl Haller von HallersteinJohann Carl Christoph Wilhelm Joachim Haller von Hallerstein was a German architect, archaeologist and art historian.-Biography:...
, art historian (b. 17741774 in art-Births:* February 17 – Raphaelle Peale, considered the first professional American painter of still-life * September 5 – Caspar David Friedrich, Romantic painter * Pierre-Narcisse Guérin – French painter...
) - November 8 – Andrea AppianiAndrea AppianiAndrea Appiani was an Italian neoclassical painter.-Biography:He was born in Milan. He had been intended to follow his father's career in medicine but instead entered the private academy of the painter Carlo Maria Giudici . He received instruction in drawing, copying mainly from sculpture and prints...
, neoclassical painter (b. 17541754 in art-Events:*Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce founded in England by William Shipley-Births:*May 8 – Amos Doolittle, engraver *May 10 – Asmus Jacob Carstens, Danish-German...
) - December 20 – Lié Louis Périn-SalbreuxLié Louis Périn-SalbreuxLié Louis Périn-Salbreux was a French artist.He was born in Rheims, France, where His father was a textile manufacturer. Périn-Salbreux was a painter, pastellist, and a miniaturist.- References :...
, painter, pastellist and miniaturist (b. 17531753 in art-Paintings:* Jean-Baptiste Oudry painted The White Duck.* Gustaf Lundberg painted a portrait of Carolus Linnaeus .* Jean-Honoré Fragonard painted Psyche Showing Her Sisters Her Gifts from Cupid....
) - date unknown – Jean Népomucène Hermann NastJean Népomucène Hermann NastJean Népomucène Hermann Nast was founder of a porcelain manufacturer that pioneered a process of high relief, multicolored hard-paste porcelain....
, porcelain manufacturer (b. 17541754 in art-Events:*Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures & Commerce founded in England by William Shipley-Births:*May 8 – Amos Doolittle, engraver *May 10 – Asmus Jacob Carstens, Danish-German...
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