1884 in art

Events from the year 1884 in art.

Events

 * February 2 – First annual exhibition of Les XX opens at the Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels. Artists invited to show in addition to members of the group include Auguste Rodin, James McNeill Whistler and Max Liebermann.
 * March – Theo van Gogh starts buying and selling Impressionist works, beginning with a painting by Pissarro.
 * April – Camille Pissarro moves to Éragny-sur-Epte.
 * May 15–July 15 – Groupe des Artistes Indépendants stages the first officially sanctioned open exhibition of contemporary art in Paris.
 * July 29 – Société des Artistes Indépendants established in Paris under the leadership of Albert Dubois-Pillet.
 * August 30 – Austrian painter Marianne Preindlsberger marries English painter Adrian Scott Stokes.

Works



 * Michael Ancher – Portrait of my wife, the painter Anna Ancher
 * Henry Baerer – Ludwig van Beethoven (bronze sculpture, version for Central Park, New York City)
 * Marie Bashkirtseff – The Meeting
 * Anna Bilińska-Bohdanowicz – A Negress
 * Jules Breton – The Song of the Lark
 * Gustave Caillebotte
 * Houses at Trouville
 * Man at his bath
 * Man wearing a blouse
 * The Yellow Fields at Gennevilliers
 * Gustaf Cederström – Funeral procession of King Charles XII
 * Albert Edelfelt – Boys Playing on the Shore
 * Daniel Chester French – John Harvard (bronze sculpture)
 * Alfred Gilbert – sculptures
 * Icarus
 * Study of a Head
 * Félix Resurrección Hidalgo – Las Virgenes Cristianas Expuestas al Populacho
 * Henry Holiday – Dante and Beatrice
 * John Lavery – On the Bridge at Grez
 * Frederic Leighton – Cymon and Iphigenia
 * John Seymour Lucas – After Culloden: Rebel Hunting
 * Juan Luna – Spoliarium
 * Jean-Louis-Ernest Meissonier – The Siege of Paris in 1870
 * John Everett Millais – Message from the Sea
 * Albert Joseph Moore – Reading Aloud
 * Edvard Munch – Morning
 * John O'Connor – From Pentonville Road looking west, evening
 * Anna Petersen – Breton Girl Looking After Plants in the Hothouse
 * Medardo Rosso – Flesh of Others (wax sculpture)
 * John Singer Sargent
 * Auguste Rodin
 * Portrait of Madame X
 * Giovanni Segantini - The Bad Mothers
 * Georges-Pierre Seurat – Bathers at Asnières
 * Alfred Sisley – The Port of Moret-sur-Loing
 * Marie Spartali Stillman – Madonna Pietra degli Scrovigni
 * Marianne Stokes – Reflection
 * Abbott Handerson Thayer – The Sisters
 * Félix Vallotton - Study of Buttocks (c.)
 * Vasily Vereshchagin – Blowing from Guns in British India
 * Jan Voerman – Days of Mourning

Births

 * February 5 – Vlastislav Hofman, Czech painter and architect (died 1964)
 * February 12
 * Marie Vassilieff, Russian-French painter (died 1957)
 * Max Beckmann, German painter (died 1950)
 * May 11 – Stanley Anderson, English engraver (died 1966)
 * June 19 – Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French writer and artist (died 1974)
 * June 25 – Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, German-born French art dealer (died 1979)
 * June 30 – Jovan Bijelić, Serbian painter (died 1964).
 * July 7 – André Dunoyer de Segonzac, French painter and graphic artist (died 1974)
 * July 12 – Amedeo Modigliani, Italian-born painter and sculptor (died 1920)
 * September 1 – Hilda Rix Nicholas, Australian painter (died 1961)
 * October 6 – MacDonald Gill, English designer (died 1947)
 * December 12 (November 30 O.S.) – Zinaida Serebriakova, Russian-born painter (died 1967)
 * December 15 – Eugeniusz Zak, Belarusian-born painter (died 1926)
 * December 17 – Waldo Peirce, American painter (died 1970)

Deaths

 * January 9 – Vito D'Ancona, Italian painter (born 1825)
 * January 28 – Alexander Louis Leloir, French painter (born 1843)
 * June 13 – Anton Zwengauer, German painter (born 1810)
 * June 19 – Adrian Ludwig Richter, German painter and etcher (born 1803)
 * October 1 – Theodor Martens, German painter (born 1822)
 * October 3 – Hans Makart, Austrian painter and designer (born 1840)
 * October 22 – Treffle Berthlaume, Québécois sculptor (born 1803)
 * October 31 – Marie Bashkirtseff, Ukrainian-French painter, of TB (born 1858)
 * date unknown
 * Stanisław Chlebowski, Polish painter, especially of oriental themes (born 1835)
 * Lina von Perbandt, German landscape painter (born 1836)
 * Carlo Randanini, Italian painter (year of birth unknown)