1884 in art

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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

Seurat – Bathers at Asnières

See also: Category:1884 paintings and Category:1884 sculptures

• Marie Bashkirtseff – The Meeting
• 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
• 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
• 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
• John Singer Sargent – Portrait of Madame X
• 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
• Vasily Vereshchagin – Blowing from Guns in British India

Births

• February 5 – Vlastislav Hofman, Czech painter and architect (died 1964)
• February 12 – 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)
• December 15 – Eugeniusz Zak, Belarusian-born painter (died 1926)
• December 17 – Waldo Peirce, American painter (died 1970)

Deaths

• January 9 – Vito D'Ancona, painter (born 1825)
• January 28 – Alexander Louis Leloir, French painter (born 1843)
• June 13 – Anton Zwengauer, painter (born 1810)
• June 19 – Adrian Ludwig Richter, German painter and etcher (born 1803)
• October 1 – Theodor Gay, painter (born 1822)
• October 3 – Hans Makart, painter and designer (born 1840)
• October 22 – Treffle Berthlaume, sculptor (born 1803)
• date unknown
  • Adèle Kindt, Belgian painter (born 1804)
  • Stanisław Chlebowski, Polish painter, especially of oriental themes (born 1853)