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
 * George Dunlop Leslie – Alice in Wonderland
 * 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)