Editing 1874 in art

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Events from the year '''1874 in art'''.

==Events==
* February–March – A memorial exhibition of drawings and [[watercolor]]s by [[Viktor Hartmann]] is held at the [[Imperial Academy of Arts]] in [[Saint Petersburg]] and inspires his friend [[Modest Mussorgsky]] to compose the piano [[Suite (music)|suite]] ''[[Pictures at an Exhibition]]''.
* [[April 15]] – May 15 – First exhibition by the ''Société Anonyme Coopérative des Artistes Peintres, Sculpteurs, Graveurs'' is held in a private studio (belonging to [[Nadar]]) outside the official [[Paris Salon]]; on April 25, [[Louis Leroy]] reviewing the exhibition in the French satirical newspaper ''[[Le Charivari]]'' under the heading "L'Exposition des impressionistes", coins the term "[[Impressionism]]" to describe the movement, with particular reference to [[Claude Monet]]'s ''[[Impression, Sunrise]]'' ([[1872 in art|1872]]), first exhibited here and in May sold to the businessman and collector [[Ernest Hoschedé]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Monet's Impression, Sunrise: the biography of a painting|location=Paris|publisher=Éditions Hazan; Musée Marmottan Monet|year=2014|isbn=978-0-300-21088-0}}</ref> Renoir exhibits six works, including ''La Loge''. The only female exhibitor is [[Berthe Morisot]].
* Summer – Monet visits [[Amsterdam]].
* [[August 22]] – English illustrator [[Helen Paterson]] marries Irish poet and editor [[William Allingham]] and becomes a watercolourist under her married name.
* c. December 19 – Monet begins painting his ''[[Snow at Argenteuil]]'' series.
* [[December 22]] – [[Berthe Morisot]] marries [[:fr:Eugène Manet|Eugène]], brother of [[Édouard Manet]], at [[Passy]].
* [[Goya]]'s ''[[Black Paintings]]'' are transferred to canvas.

==Works==
[[File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir 023.jpg|thumb|[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir|Renoir]] – ''[[La Loge]]'']]
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* April 26 – [[Confederate Obelisk]] (Atlanta)
* [[Peter Nicolai Arbo]]
** ''[[:File:Dagr by Arbo.jpg|Dagr]]''
** ''[[:File:Arbopeternicolai.jpg|Self-portrait]]''
* [[Thomas Jones Barker]] – ''Balaklava – One of the Six Hundred''
* [[Caroline Shawk Brooks]] – ''Dreaming Iolanthe'' (butter sculpture; first version)
* [[Ford Madox Brown]] – ''[[Cromwell on his Farm]]''
* [[Edward Burne-Jones]] – ''[[The Beguiling of Merlin]]''
* [[Louis Buvelot]] – ''Macedon Ranges''
* [[Edgar Degas]] – ''[[The Dance Class (Degas, Metropolitan Museum of Art)|The Dance Class]]''
* [[Pere Borrell del Caso]] – ''[[:File:Escaping criticism-by pere borrel del caso.png|Escaping Criticism]]''
* [[Thomas Eakins]] – ''[[Portrait of Professor Benjamin H. Rand]]''
* [[Henri Fantin-Latour]] – ''Still Life with Pansies'' ([[Metropolitan Museum of Art]], [[New York City|New York]])
* [[Luke Fildes]] – ''[[Applicants for Admission to a Casual Ward]]''
* [[Emmanuel Frémiet]] – ''Joan of Arc'' (formerly in the Place des Pyramides, Paris)
* [[Walter Greaves (artist)|Walter Greaves]] – ''[[:File:Greaves Old Battersea Bridge 1874.jpg|Old Battersea Bridge]]''
* [[Armand Guillaumin]] – ''[[La Seine]]'' (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
* [[Winslow Homer]] – ''Farmer with a Pitch Fork''
* [[Vilhelm Kyhn]] – ''Sildig Sommeraften ved Himmelbjærget'' ("Late Summer Evening near Himmelbjerget")
* [[Édouard Manet]] 
** ''[[Boating]]'' (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
** ''[[Argenteuil (painting)|Argenteuil]]''
** ''[[Claude Monet Painting in his Studio]]''
* [[Antonin Mercié]] – ''[[Gloria Victis (sculpture)|Gloria Victis]]'' (sculpture)
* [[Claude Monet]] – ''[[The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil]]''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nga.gov.au/MonetJapan/Detail.cfm?WorkID=W318|title=The railway bridge at Argenteuil|website=Nga.gov.au|access-date=2005-10-01|archive-date=2012-07-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120716182720/http://www.nga.gov.au/MonetJapan/Detail.cfm?WorkID=W318|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Albert Joseph Moore]] – ''Shells''
* [[Thomas Moran]] – ''Chasm of the Colorado''
* [[Berthe Morisot]] – ''[[The Butterfly Hunt]]''
* [[John Pettie]] – ''Jacobites''
* [[Camille Pissarro]] – ''[[Portrait of Cézanne]]''
* [[Illarion Pryanishnikov]] – ''[[:File:French retreat in 1812 by Pryanishnikov.jpg|Episode in the War of 1812]]''
* [[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]]
** ''[[:File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Danseuse.jpg|Danseuse]]''
** ''[[La Loge]]''
** ''[[La Parisienne (Renoir painting)|La Parisienne]]''
* [[Dante Gabriel Rossetti]]
** ''[[:File:Holygrail.jpg|The Damsel of the Sanct Grael or Holy Grail]]''
** ''[[Proserpine (Rossetti painting)|Proserpine]]'' ([[Tate Britain]])
* [[Alfred Sisley]] – ''[[Misty Morning]]''<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.arthistory.cc/auth/sisley/misty/misty.jpg |title=Archived copy |access-date=2005-10-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121113135647/http://www.arthistory.cc/auth/sisley/misty/misty.jpg |archive-date=2012-11-13 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[James Tissot]] 
**''[[Frederick Burnaby]]''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw00932/Frederick-Burnaby|title=Frederick Burnaby – National Portrait Gallery|website=Npg.org.uk|access-date=13 November 2021}}</ref>
**''[[:File:James Tissot - London Visitors.jpg|London Visitors]]''
**''[[:File:James Tissot - On the Thames.jpg|On the Thames]]'' (approximate date)

==Births==
* [[February 23]] – [[Arnold Friedman]], [[American modernism|American modernist]] painter (died [[1946 in art|1946]])
* [[March 9]] – [[John Duncan Fergusson]], [[Scottish Colourist]] [[painter]] (died [[1961 in art|1961]])
* [[March 23]] – [[Henri Manguin]], French Fauvist painter (died [[1949 in art|1949]])
* [[April 7]] – [[Frederick Carl Frieseke]], [[Americans|American]]-born painter (died [[1939 in art|1939]])
* [[May 11]] – [[Einar Jónsson]], [[Iceland]]ic sculptor (died [[1954 in art|1954]])
* [[July 24]] – [[Félix Pissarro]], French-born painter (died [[1897 in art|1897]])
* [[July 28]] – [[Joaquín Torres García]], [[Uruguay]]an painter (died 1949)
* [[October 16]] – [[Otto Mueller]], [[Silesia]]n painter (died [[1930 in art|1930]])
* [[October 21]] – [[Charles R. Knight]], American [[animal painter]] (died [[1953 in art|1953]])
* [[November 9]] – [[Julio Romero de Torres]], [[Andalusia]]n painter of female nudes (died [[1930 in art|1930]])
* [[December 18]] – [[Frank O. Salisbury]], [[English people|English]] portrait and official painter (died [[1962 in art|1962]])
* ''date unknown''
** [[Mabel Esplin]], English stained-glass artist (died [[1921 in art|1921]])
** [[Dorothea Sharp]], English painter (died [[1955 in art|1955]])

==Deaths==
* [[January 29]] – [[John Christian Schetky]], [[Scotland|Scottish]]-born [[marine painter]] (born [[1778 in art|1778]])
* [[April 19]] – [[Owen Jones (architect)|Owen Jones]], British architect, interior designer and pioneer of [[chromolithography]] (born [[1809 in art|1809]])<ref>{{cite web |title=Owen Jones {{!}} British architect, designer, and artist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Owen-Jones |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=25 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref>
* [[April 20]] – [[Alexander Hunter Murray]], fur trader in Canada and artist (born [[1818 in art|1818/1819]])
* [[May 5]] – [[Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre]], Swiss painter in France (born [[1806 in art|1806]])
* [[June 14]] – [[Julien-Léopold Boilly]], French draughtsman and watercolorist (born [[1796 in art|1796]])
* [[July 25]] – [[Edward Troye]], Swiss-born American equine painter (born [[1808 in art|1808]])
* [[August 27]] – [[John Henry Foley]], Irish sculptor (born [[1818 in art|1818]])
* [[November 21]] – [[Marià Fortuny]], Catalan painter in Italy (born [[1838 in art|1838]])
* [[December 6]] – [[Gustaf Wappers]], Flemish painter in France (born [[1803 in art|1803]])
* [[October 28]] – [[William Henry Rinehart]], American sculptor in Italy (born [[1825 in art|1825]])
* ''date unknown'' – [[Henry Bryan Ziegler]], British landscape and portrait painter (born [[1798 in art|1798]])

==References==
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