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Events from the year 1870 in art.

Events

  • 2 May – The Royal Academy Exhibition of 1870 opens at Burlington House in London
  • June 28 – Claude Monet marries his mistress and model Camille Doncieux in Paris; Gustave Courbet is a witness.
  • July – Franco-Prussian War breaks out: Monet, Pissarro, Daubigny and the dealer Paul Durand-Ruel flee to London; Cézanne and his mistress, Marie-Hortense Fiquet, leave Paris for L'Estaque (on the French Riviera) where he predominantly paints landscapes. In August, Frédéric Bazille joins a Zouave regiment. In September the Dutch painter Lourens Alma Tadema moves permanently to London where he adopts the name Lawrence Alma-Tadema.
  • Édouard Manet and Louis Edmond Duranty fight a duel at Café Guerbois, Paris.
  • Russian industrialist and patron of the arts Savva Mamontov acquires the Abramtsevo Colony and hosts a group of traditionalist artists there.
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti's Poems are published, exhumed from Elizabeth Siddal's grave.
  • Daoud Corm goes to Rome to study under Roberto Bompiani at the Accademia di San Luca.

Paintings

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  • Wilhelm Amberg – Reading from Goethe's Werther (Vorlesung aus Goethes Werther)
  • Frédéric Bazille
  • Countryside near Lex
  • Studio in the rue Condamine
  • La Toilette
  • Cathy Madox Brown – Ford Madox Brown at his Easel
  • Ford Madox Brown – Romeo and Juliet
  • Edward Burne-Jones – Phyllis and Demophoon
  • Paul Cézanne – Paul Alexis reading a manuscript to Émile Zola (1869–70; São Paulo Museum of Art)
  • Edgar Degas
  • The Dancing Class (c.)
  • The Orchestra at the Opera (c.)
  • Jean-Jules-Antoine Lecomte du Nouÿ – Demosthenes Practicing Oratory (Démosthène s'exerçant à la parole)
  • Henri Fantin-Latour – A Studio in the Batignolles (Musée d'Orsay, Paris)
  • Anselm Feuerbach – The Judgement of Paris (c. 1869–70)
  • Mariano Fortuny – The Spanish Wedding (Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya)
  • Jean-Léon Gérôme – Moorish Bath
  • Arthur Hughes – You Cannot Barre Love Oute
  • Christian Inger - Smith Rescued by Pocahontas
  • Jean-Paul Laurens – Pope Formosus and Stephen VI (Le Pape Formose et Étienne VII)
  • Édouard Manet
  • La Brioche (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
  • Effect of Snow on Petit-Montrouge (National Museum Cardiff)
  • John Everett Millais
  • The Boyhood of Raleigh (Tate Britain, London)
  • The Knight Errant
  • Pierre-Auguste Renoir
  • Madame Clémentine Valensi Stora (L'Algérienne)
  • La Promenade
  • Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Beata Beatrix (approximate completion date)
  • Sibylla Palmifera
  • Dmitri Sinodi-Popov – An Old Greek
  • James Tissot
  • Portrait of Frederick Burnaby
  • La Partie carrée
  • Raja Ravi Varma – Shakuntala

Sculpture

  • Statue of Abraham Lincoln (New York City)

Awards

  • Grand Prix de Rome, painting:
  • Grand Prix de Rome, sculpture:
  • Grand Prix de Rome, architecture: Albert-Félix-Théophile Thomas.
  • Grand Prix de Rome, music: Charles Edouard Lefebvre & Henri Maréchal

Births

  • January 1 – Louis Vauxcelles, French Jewish art critic (died 1943)
  • January 11 – Alexander Stirling Calder, American sculptor (died 1945)
  • February 5 – C. E. Brock, English painter and illustrator (died 1938)
  • March 13 – William Glackens, American painter (died 1938)
  • June 22 – Antonio Dattilo Rubbo, Italian-born painter and art teacher (died 1955)
  • July 21 – Emil Orlík, Czech-born painter and lithographer (died 1932)
  • July 25 – Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator (died 1966)
  • November 4 – Basil Temple Blackwood, British book illustrator (died 1917)
  • November 18 – Franz Metzner, German sculptor (died 1919)
  • November 25 – Maurice Denis, French painter and decorative artist (died 1943)
  • December 23 – John Marin, American painter (died 1953)
  • date unknown – Arthur Diehl, English-born landscape painter (died 1929)

Deaths

  • January 17 – Alexander Anderson, American illustrator (born 1775)
  • January 27 – Johannes Flintoe, Danish-Norwegian painter of Norwegian landscapes (born 1787)
  • February 21 – Robert Jefferson Bingham, English-born photographer (born 1824 or 1825)
  • March 19 – William Egley, English miniature painter (born 1798)
  • April 25 – Daniel Maclise, Irish-born painter (born 1806)
  • May 17 – David Octavius Hill, Scottish painter and pioneer photographer (born 1802)
  • July 13 – Christian Albrecht Jensen, Danish painter (born 1792)
  • August 25 – Richard Seymour-Conway, 4th Marquess of Hertford, English francophile art collector (born 1800)
  • November 7 – Cornelia Aletta van Hulst, Dutch painter (born 1797)
  • November 28 – Frédéric Bazille, French Impressionist painter (born 1841) (killed in action)
  • December 9
  • Max Emanuel Ainmiller, German glass painter (born 1807)
  • Patrick MacDowell, Irish sculptor from Belfast (born 1799)
  • December 12 – Martin Cregan, Irish portrait painter (born 1788)
  • Undated – Achille Leonardi, Italian genre painter (born 1800)

References