Strike action ( 1879 ), painting by Theodor Kittelsen

In 1879 John Singer Sargent painted a small-scale copy of Las Meninas, and in 1882 painted a homage to the painting in his The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, while the Irish artist Sir John Lavery chose Velázquez's masterpiece as the basis for his portrait The Royal Family at Buckingham Palace, 1913.

The discontinuation of his painting gave him time for writing, and he successively produced The Intellectual Life ( 1873 ), perhaps the best known and most valuable of his writings ; Round my House ( 1876 ), notes on French society by a resident ; and Modern Frenchmen ( 1879 ), admirable short biographies.

Aggripina and Leszek, painting by Jan Matejko, 1879

Some of his works include " Jedburgh Abbey "; " Pontaine Marshes " ( 1847 ); " Backwoods of America " ( 1857 ); " Richmond Hill " ( 1862 ); " Indian Summer " ( 1866 ); " Greenwood Lake " ( 1870 ); " Lake Nemi in Italy " ( 1879 ); " Old Church at Arreton, Isle of Wight " ( 1880 ); " Ramapo Valley " ( 1881 ); " Autumn on the Hudson " ( 1882 ; however, the New York Daily Tribune refers to a painting by Cropsey called " Autumn on the Hudson " in its morning edition of Jan. 7, 1861 ): " Wawayanda Valley " ( 1883 ); " Spring-time in England " ( 1884 ); " October in Ramapo Valley " ( 1885 ); " Autumn on Lake George ," and " A Showery Day " ( 1886 ).

He got his artistic breakthrough in 1879 with the painting Vil han klare pynten ( Will he Round the Point ?).

He is now, in 1879, painting a fresco for a church in Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.

Pestalozzi with the orphans in Stans ( detail ); oil on canvas painting by Konrad Grob, 1879

He also studied at the Victorian Academy of the Arts and also exhibited there in 1876 and again from 1879 to 1882, selling his first painting in 1880.

Albert Edelfelt's painting Poltettu kylä ( 1879 ) depicts a woman, a child, and an old man hiding behind a rock as a village burns in the background.

Ab ovo is also the title of a 1917 painting by Paul Klee ( 1879 – 1940 ), which is particularly noteworthy for its sophisticated technique.

In 1879, in the palace's colonnade hall, the inhabitants of Warsaw for the first time saw " The Battle of Grunwald ", a historical painting by Jan Matejko.

* Discussion that Schiess is depicted in Lady Elizabeth Butler's 1879 painting " The Defence of Rorke's Drift "

Previously called Agreements Room, there is a painting of the Admiral Miguel Grau, a Peru Navy's hero, the seaman also called " The Gentleman of the Seas ", because in command of a small turret-ram ironclad named after " Huáscar " – The lion of the south seas and Admiral's ship of Peru, he managed to keep the whole enemy navy at bay in the so called Pacific War ( 1879 – 1883 ).

His first major painting, The Chancel of Sant Antonio, was noticed for its powerful quality, and in 1879 it was acquired by Milan's Società per le Belle Arti.

From 1879 to 1894 the painting was in the collection of the French painter Gustave Caillebotte ; when he died it became the property of the French Republic as payment for death duties.

A common theme in art, The Birth of Venus ( Bouguereau ) | The Birth of Venus is shown in this 1879 painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau.

However, apparently because of depression, he seems to have stopped painting between 1879 and 1881.

In 1879, he went Paris, France to study painting under Leon Bonnat at the École des Beaux-Arts.

* In 1879 it was adopted by John Everett Millais as the title of his immensely popular painting depicting a young girl with cherries.

His " Le Retour ," from the Paris Salon of 1879, was the first American painting ever bought for the Luxembourg Palace.

Completed circa 1879, this painting is interpreted as an anti-Semitic depiction of Jews in Paris, due especially to the exaggerated features and postures of the subjects.

At the close of his administration, he retired to private life at Fruit Hill, where he died in 1879.

In his 1879 Portraits, At the Stock Exchange, he portrayed a group of Jewish businessmen with a hint of anti-Semitism.

At its founding in March 1879, it had a population of just 100, and only two years later in late 1881 it had more than 7, 000 citizens, excluding all Chinese, Mexicans, women and children residents.

At the town's founding in March 1879, it took its name from Schieffelin's initial mining claim.

At the same time he became known in the world of letters ; the academic subtlety and literary achievement of his Defence of Philosophic Doubt ( 1879 ) suggested that he might make a reputation for himself as a philosopher.

At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute on February 8, 1879 he linked it to the anti-meridian of Greenwich ( now 180 °).

At a national level several approaches were made which eventually produced the ' New Departure ' of June 1879, endorsing the foregone informal agreement which asserted an understanding binding them to mutual support and a shared political agenda.

At the first recognized competition held in Husebybakken in 1879, Olaf Haugann of Norway set the first world record for the longest ski jump at 20 meters.

At a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute on 8 February 1879 he linked it to the anti-meridian of Greenwich ( now 180 °).

At the same theatre in 1879, he played the part of Po-Hi opposite Santley in Tita in Thibet, a two act comedy musical by Frank Desprez.

At this period of his life he wrote Grégoire de Tours et Marius d ' Avenche ( 1872 ); Frédégaire, whose history, taken from original manuscripts, he published in 1885 ; a translation of a book of W. Junghans, Histoire critique des règnes de Childerich et de Chlodovech, with introduction and notes ( 1879 ); Études critiques sur les sources de l ' histoire carolingienne ( 1898, 1st part only published ); and Bibliographie de l ' histoire de France ( 1888 ).

At Fort Gardens is the New Tavern Fort built during the 1780s and extensively rebuilt by General Gordon between 1865 and 1879: it is now a museum, partly open air, under the care of the Gravesend Local History Society.

* Sereno Watson 1879 At: Biodiversity Heritage Library

At the age of eighteen ( 12 November 1879 ) she married James Cowan, a career public servant who had held numerous positions and was at that time Registrar and Master of the Supreme Court.

At one time, as many as five different knife-making enterprises were underway in the town, but today there is only one – Iisakki Järvenpää Oy, which has been making knives in Kauhava since 1879.

At this time, having been appointed commander of the VII Army Corps at Besançon, he retired from political life and, in 1879, became inspector-general of the army.

At age sixteen he left home to attended the common schools and the Eastern Illinois Normal School at Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois, until 1879.

At 12. 45 on 29 March 1879, the tents were struck, reserve ammunition was distributed, and the troops took up their battle stations.

At different periods he was editor of the Christian at Work ( 1873 – 76 ), New York ; the Advance ( 1877 – 79 ), Chicago ; Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine ( 1879 – 89 ), New York ; and the Christian Herald ( 1890 – 1902 ), New York.

At least until 1879, the tracks ran along 42nd Street, Tenth Avenue, 34th Street, Broadway, 23rd Street, Fourth Avenue, 14th Street, Avenue A, ( using Second Street westbound to cut the corner ), Houston Street, Cannon Street / Goerck Street ( eastbound / westbound ) and Grand Street.

At the age of 22 Coulthard umpired the third Test cricket match played between Australia and England in Melbourne on 2 January to 4 January 1879.

At the opening ceremony in 1879 the mayor turned the fountain on with a silver key presented by Steble, but the water pressure was low and the effect was " dismal ".

At the time of his death in 1879, he was President of the Sunderland Temperance Society and treasurer of the Bible Society.

At the Berlin Trade Fair of 1879 Siemens was demonstrating the first railway electrification system and it was that which led the British branch of the firm to be commissioned to incorporate this new technology into the Giant ’ s Causeway Tramway venture.