1883 in art

Events from the year 1883 in the arts

Events

April – Exhibition of Impressionist paintings opens at the Dowdeswell Gallery in London.
20 April – Claude Monet moves to the house in Giverny which will be his main residence for the rest of his life.
28 October – Les XX established in Brussels by Octave Maus.
J.-K. Huysmans publishes L'Art moderne.

Michael Ancher – Redningsbåden køres gennem klitterne ("The Lifeboat is Taken through the Dunes")
Marie Bashkirtseff
- Autumn
- The Umbrella
Arnold Böcklin – Isle of the Dead (Die Toteninsel, 3rd version)
Gustave Caillebotte – Portrait of Henri Cordier
William Merritt Chase
- Mrs Meigs at the Piano Organ
- Portrait of Miss Dora Wheeler
John Collier
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3 February – Camille Bombois, French naïve painter (died 1970).
18 February – Jacques Ochs, French artist, épée and foil fencer and Olympic gold medallist (died 1971).
12 April
- Francis Cadell, Scottish Colourist painter (died 1937)
- Imogen Cunningham, American photographer (died 1976).
24 June – Jean Metzinger, French painter and art theorist (died 1956).
16 July – Charles Sheeler, American modernist painter and photographer (died 1965).
31 July – Erich Heckel, German painter and printmaker (died 1970).
19 August – Coco Chanel, French fashion designer (died 1972).
20 August – Caroline Risque, American sculptor and painter (died 1952).
14 September – Richard Gerstl, Austrian painter and draughtsman (died 1908).
9 November – Charles Demuth, American painter (died 1935).
4 December – Felice Casorati, Italian painter (died 1963).
24 December – Stojan Aralica, famous Serbian Impressionist painter and academic (died 1980).
26 December – Maurice Utrillo, French painter (died 1955).
date unknown – Charles Jourdan, French fashion designer (died 1976).

January 12 – Clark Mills, American sculptor (born 1810)
January 19 – Guillaume Geefs, Belgian sculptor (born 1805)
January 23 – Gustave Doré, French illustrator (born 1832)
February 26 – Miguel Ângelo Lupi, Portuguese painter (born 1826)
April 30 – Édouard Manet, French painter (born 1832; died following amputation)
July 14 – Edward Calvert, English painter and printmaker (born 1799)
August 19 – József Borsos, Hungarian portrait painter and photographer (born 1821)
November 24 – Albert Fitch Bellows, American landscape painter (born 1829)
December 11 – Richard Doyle, British illustrator (born 1824)<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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