1874 in art

Events

*First Impressionist exhibition is held in a private studio outside the official Paris Salon; Louis Leroy in the French satirical newspaper "Le Charivari" coins the term "impressionism".
*Berthe Morisot marries Eugene, brother of Édouard Manet.
*Helen Paterson marries William Allingham.

Works

*Louis Buvelot - "Macedon Ranges"
*Edgar Degas - " [http://www.mystudios.com/art/impress/degas/degas-dancing-lesson.html The Dancing Lesson] "
*Emmanuel Frémiet - "Joan of Arc" (formerly in the Place des Pyramides, Paris)
*Henri Fantin-Latour - "Still Life with Pansies" (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York)
*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)
*Claude Monet - " [http://www.nga.gov.au/MonetJapan/Detail.cfm?WorkID=W318 The Railway Bridge at Argenteuil] "
*Berthe Morisot - "The Butterfly Hunt"
*John Pettie - "Jacobites"
*Camille Pissarro - "Portrait of Cézanne"
*Alfred Sisley - " [http://www.arthistory.cc/auth/sisley/misty/misty.jpgMisty Morning] "

Births

*March 23 - Henri Manguin, painter (d. 1949)
*May 11 - Einar Jónsson, sculptor (d. 1954)
*July 28 - Joaquín Torres García, Uruguayan painter (d. 1949)
*October 16 - Otto Mueller, painter (d. 1930)
* Arnold Friedman, Modernist painter (d. 1946)

Deaths

*April 19 - Owen Jones, architect, interior designer, and pioneer of chromolithography (b. 1809)
*April 20 - Alexander Hunter Murray, fur trader and artist (b. 1818/1819)
*May 5 - Marc-Charles-Gabriel Gleyre, painter (b. 1806)
*November 21 - Mariano Fortuny, painter (b. 1838)
*December 6 - Egide Charles Gustave Wappers, painter (b. 1803)
*William Henry Rinehart, sculptor (b. 1825)