1880 in art

Events from the year 1880 in art.

Events

 * October – Vincent van Gogh enrolls in a beginners art course at the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels.
 * Fifth Impressionist exhibition in Paris, at 10 rue des Pyramides. The realist painter Jean-François Raffaëlli is also invited by Degas to exhibit.
 * Silver Studio founded by Arthur Silver in London for textile and wallpaper design.
 * Anton Mauve paints Changing Pasture; his palette and usage of colour influences Vincent van Gogh.
 * Michael Ancher marries fellow painter Anna Brøndum.
 * National Gallery of Canada established in Ottawa.

Awards

 * Grand Prix de Rome, painting: Henri Lucien Doucet.
 * Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
 * Grand Prix de Rome, architecture:
 * Grand Prix de Rome, music: Lucien Joseph Edouard Hillemacher.

Works



 * Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi – The Lion of Belfort
 * Marie Bashkirtseff – Self-portrait
 * Arnold Böcklin – Isle of the Dead (Die Toteninsel, first two versions)
 * Marie Bracquemond – On the terrace at Sèvres
 * Thomas Brock – A Moment of Peril (equestrian bronze)
 * Lady Butler – The Defence of Rorke's Drift
 * Alexandre Cabanel – Phèdre
 * Gustave Caillebotte
 * A Balcony
 * Boulevard des Italiens
 * Boulevard Seen from Above
 * The Bezique Game
 * In a Café
 * Interior
 * Interior, or Woman reading
 * A refuge, boulevard Haussmann
 * Man on the balcony, boulevard Haussmann
 * Man with a top-hat, seated by a window
 * Nude on a divan
 * Paul Cézanne – View of Auvers-sur-Oise
 * Carl Conrads - Statue of Alexander Hamilton (granite)
 * Pierre Auguste Cot - The Storm
 * Alphonse-Marie-Adolphe de Neuville – The Defence of Rorke's Drift, 1879
 * Edgar Degas – Mary Cassatt at the Louvre: The Etruscan Gallery (etching)
 * Thomas Eakins – The Fairman Rogers Four-in-Hand
 * Giovanni Fattori – Quadrato di Villafranca
 * Charles Gauthier – Cléopâtre (plaster)
 * James Clarke Hook – Home with the Tide
 * Daniel Huntington – Portrait of John Adams Dix
 * Ivan Kramskoi
 * Sergey Botkin
 * Ivan Shishkin
 * Edward Lear – The Plains of Lombardy from Monte Generoso (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford)
 * Édouard Manet
 * Émilie Ambre as Carmen
 * A Bundle of Asparagus
 * A Sprig of Asparagus
 * Albert Joseph Moore – Rose Leaves
 * Adolph Alphonse de Neuville – The Defence of Rorke's Drift
 * Frank O'Meara – Autumnal greys (Forest of Fontainbleau)
 * William Quiller Orchardson – Napoleon on Board the Bellerophon
 * Edward Poynter – A Visit to Aesculapius
 * Pierre-Auguste Renoir
 * Portrait of Irène Cahen d'Anvers
 * By the Water
 * Annie Robinson – Susan Isabel Dacre
 * Dante Gabriel Rossetti – The Day Dream
 * Fritz Schaper – Goethe Monument (Berlin)
 * Viktor Vasnetsov – Flying Carpet
 * Henry Tanworth Wells – Victoria Regina

Births

 * February 1 – C. T. Loo, Chinese-born art dealer (died 1957)
 * February 8 – Franz Marc, German painter and printmaker, co-founder of Der Blaue Reiter (killed in action 1916)
 * March 2 – Joseph Ehrismann, German-born painter and stained-glass maker (died 1937)
 * March 21 – Hans Hofmann, German-born abstract expressionist painter and teacher (died 1966)
 * April 4 – William Russell Flint, Scottish-born watercolourist (died 1969)
 * April 7 – Alexander Bogomazov, Ukrainian painter, artist and modern art theoretician of Russian avant-garde (died 1930)
 * May 6 – Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, German expressionist painter, co-founder of Die Brücke (suicide 1938)
 * June 10 – André Derain, French Fauvist painter (died 1954)
 * August 2 – Arthur Dove, American painter (died 1946)
 * August 22 – George Herriman, American cartoonist (Krazy Kat) (died 1944)
 * November 19 – Jacob Epstein, American-born British sculptor (died 1959)

Deaths

 * January 4 – Anselm Feuerbach, German classicist painter (born 1829)
 * February 19 – Constantino Brumidi, American historicist fresco painter (born 1805)
 * September 8 – Wilhelm August Rieder, Austrian painter and draughtsman (born 1796)
 * October 10 – Giampietro Campana, Italian art collector (born 1808)
 * November 20 – Léon Cogniet, French historical and portrait painter (born 1794)
 * date unknown
 * Philippe Joseph Henri Lemaire, French sculptor (born 1798)
 * Henry O'Neill, Irish illustrator and antiquarian (born 1798)
 * Nicolae Teodorescu, Moldavian, later Romanian church painter (muralist) (born 1797)