1883 in art

Events from the year 1883 in the arts

Events

 * April – Exhibition of Impressionist paintings opens at the Dowdeswell Gallery in London.
 * 20 April – Claude Monet moves to the house in Giverny which will be his main residence for the rest of his life.
 * 28 October – Les XX established in Brussels by Octave Maus.
 * J.-K. Huysmans publishes L'Art moderne.

Works



 * Michael Ancher – Redningsbåden køres gennem klitterne ("The Lifeboat is Taken through the Dunes")
 * Marie Bashkirtseff
 * Autumn
 * The Umbrella
 * Arnold Böcklin – Isle of the Dead (Die Toteninsel, 3rd version)
 * Gustave Caillebotte – Portrait of Henri Cordier
 * William Merritt Chase
 * Mrs Meigs at the Piano Organ
 * Portrait of Miss Dora Wheeler
 * John Collier – Marion Collier
 * Pierre Auguste Cot – The Storm
 * Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret – Hamlet and the Gravediggers
 * Pierre Puvis de Chavannes
 * The Dream
 * Ludus Pro Patria
 * Luke Fildes – The Village Wedding
 * William Powell Frith – A Private View at the Royal Academy, 1881
 * Jean-Léon Gérôme – The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer
 * James Guthrie
 * A Hind's Daughter
 * To Pastures New
 * Sydney Prior Hall – The three daughters of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra
 * Ivan Kramskoi – Portrait of an Unknown Woman
 * John Lavery – The Bridge at Grez 
 * Benjamin Williams Leader – The Valley of the Llugwy
 * Charles-Auguste Lebourg – Labour (sculpture)
 * Konstantin Makovsky – A Boyar Wedding Feast
 * Jacek Malczewski – The Prisoners
 * Claude Monet – Stormy Sea in Étretat
 * William Morris – Strawberry Thief textile design
 * Walter Osborne – Apple Gathering, Quimperlé
 * Paul Philippoteaux – Gettysburg Cyclorama
 * Pierre-Auguste Renoir:
 * By the Seashore
 * Dance at Bougival
 * Dance in the Country
 * The Umbrellas (Les Parapluies)
 * Georges Rochegrosse - Vitellius Dragged Through the Streets of Rome by the Popoulus
 * Ilya Repin – Religious Procession in Kursk Province
 * William Wetmore Story – Chief Justice John Marshall (bronze)
 * James Tissot
 * The Bridesmaid
 * A Little Nimrod
 * Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec – Self-portrait in a mirror
 * Jan van Beers – Portrait of a Young Woman
 * Henry Van Brunt and Frank M. Howe – William Washington Gordon Monument
 * Vincent van Gogh
 * Cottages (continuing series)
 * Peasant Character Studies (continuing series)
 * Bulb Fields
 * Cows in the Meadow (lost)
 * Drawbridge in Nieuw-Amsterdam (watercolor)
 * Farm with Stacks of Peat
 * Farmhouse Among Trees
 * Farmhouses in Loosduinen near The Hague at Twilight
 * Footbridge across a Ditch
 * Landscape with a Church at Twilight
 * Landscape with Dunes
 * Landscape with Trees (watercolor)
 * Landscape with Wheelbarrow (watercolor)
 * Marshy Landscape
 * Meadows near Rijswijk and the Schenkweg
 * Peatery in Drenthe
 * Three Figures near a Canal with Windmill
 * A Wind-Beaten Tree
 * Fritz von Uhde – Summer Resort
 * Erik Werenskiold
 * September
 * Shepherds at Tåtøy
 * W. L. Wyllie – Toil, Glitter, Grime and Wealth on a Flowing Tide

Births

 * 3 February – Camille Bombois, French naïve painter (died 1970).
 * 18 February – Jacques Ochs, French artist, épée and foil fencer and Olympic gold medallist (died 1971).
 * 12 April
 * Francis Cadell, Scottish Colourist painter (died 1937)
 * Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (died 1976).
 * 24 June – Jean Metzinger, French painter and art theorist (died 1956).
 * 16 July – Charles Sheeler, American modernist painter and photographer (died 1965).
 * 31 July – Erich Heckel, German painter and printmaker (died 1970).
 * 19 August – Coco Chanel, French fashion designer (died 1972).
 * 20 August – Caroline Risque, American sculptor and painter (died 1952).
 * 14 September – Richard Gerstl, Austrian painter and draughtsman (died 1908).
 * 9 November – Charles Demuth, American painter (died 1935).
 * 4 December – Felice Casorati, Italian painter (died 1963).
 * 24 December – Stojan Aralica, famous Serbian Impressionist painter and academic (died 1980).
 * 26 December – Maurice Utrillo, French painter (died 1955).
 * date unknown – Charles Jourdan, French fashion designer (died 1976).

Deaths

 * January 12 – Clark Mills, American sculptor (born 1810)
 * January 19 – Guillaume Geefs, Belgian sculptor (born 1805)
 * January 23 – Gustave Doré, French illustrator (born 1832)
 * February 26 – Miguel Ângelo Lupi, Portuguese painter (born 1826)
 * April 30 – Édouard Manet, French painter (born 1832; died following amputation)
 * July 14 – Edward Calvert, English painter and printmaker (born 1799)
 * August 19 – József Borsos, Hungarian portrait painter and photographer (born 1821)
 * November 24 – Albert Fitch Bellows, American landscape painter (born 1829)
 * December 11 – Richard Doyle, British illustrator (born 1824)