Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Girl with a Hoop, 1885

* 1885 – Pierre Renoir, French actor and director ( d. 1952 )

File: Pierre-Auguste Renoir-In the Garden. jpg | Pierre-Auguste Renoir, In The Garden 1885, Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

* Pierre Renoir ( 1885 – 1952 ), French actor and son of Pierre-Auguste Renoir

Her portrait was painted by Pierre-Auguste Renoir in 1885 and now hangs in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D. C ..

Pierre Renoir ( 21 March 1885 – 11 March 1952 ) was a French stage and film actor.

Pierre Renoir was born on March 21, 1885 in Paris, on 18 rue Houdon, about a hundred meters from place Pigalle, to painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Girl With a Hoop ( 1885 ) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir

In 1885, he painted his first major work The Potato Eaters.

Inspired by the area and artists, D. H. Lawrence ( 1885 – 1930 ) painted while in Taos, signing his work " Lorenzo "; Nine of his paintings are displayed at La Fonda Hotel on the Taos Plaza.

Walter MacEwen, also American, painted there from 1883 to 1885.

Tuke painted oil studies of young male nudes during a tour of Italy in his early twenties in 1881, but the theme did not become central to his work until after 1885, when he had moved to Falmouth, then still a secluded part of Cornwall and a part of the country with a very mild climate that was more agreeable for nude bathing.

Welles married Mathilde Scott Townsend ( 1885 – 1949 ), " a noted international beauty " whose portrait had been painted by John Singer Sargent, on June 27, 1925, in upstate New York.

Harnett's best-known paintings, the four versions of After The Hunt, were painted between 1883 and 1885.

From 1876 to 1885 Böcklin was working at Florence, and painted a Pietà, Ulysses and Calypso, Prometheus, and the Sacred Grove.

In 1881 he painted The Beggar and the Portrait of Albert Wolf ; in 1882 Le Père Jacques ; in 1885 Love in a Village, in which we find some trace of Gustave Courbet's influence.

As one newspaper critic noted in 1885, "... red, yellow, chocolate, orange, everything that is loud is in fashion ... if the upper stories are not of red or blue ... they are painted up into uncouth panels of yellow and brown ..." While many of the mansions of Nob Hill were destroyed by the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, thousands of the mass-produced, more modest houses survived in the western and southern neighborhoods of the city.

The Potato Eaters () is a painting by the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh which he painted in April 1885 while in Nuenen, Netherlands.

The cottage was home to two families, one of which was the de Groots who were the subjects of The Potato EatersThe Potato Eaters ( Dutch: De Aardappeleters ) is a painting by Van Gogh which he painted in April 1885 while in Nuenen, Netherlands.

Around the walls of the aisles are located the Stations of the Cross, painted in oils by L. Chovet of Paris and selected for St Mary ’ s by Cardinal Moran in 1885.

They include likenesses of Lord Roberts, painted for Queen Victoria ( 1882 ); the Prince of Wales, Lord Dufferin, the Duke of Cleveland ( 1885 ); Lord Overstone, Mr Bright, Mr Gladstone, Mr Chamberlain, Sir J Tenniel, Earl Spencer, Viscount Cranbrook, and a score of other important subjects.

He attracted notice in the Paris Salon of 1885 with his " Tulip Growing ", of a Dutch garden he painted in the Netherlands.

After passing six months at Newlyn, where he painted his first picture exhibited in the Royal Academy, Fishermen Mending a Sail ( 1885 ), he obtained a travelling scholarship and studied for two years in Italy, a sojourn which greatly influenced his art.

The curtains utilized in Corteo have been painted in watercolors and were inspired by a painting from 1885 by Adolphe Willette.

His first masterpiece, The Potato Eaters ( Oil on Canvas, 1885 ), of Dutch land peasants, was indirectly inspired by the bad conditions for miners and families in the Borinage, but was not painted there.

Between 1885 and 1890, her portrait was painted in Omaha, Nebraska by artist Herbert A. Collins.

From 1885 to 1890, Boyd's portrait was painted in Omaha by artist Herbert A. Collins.

Before coming on a visit to Spelman in 1885, Miss Mary had been a successful teacher in Worcester, and her position there was held open for her for a considerable period.

She settled in Castle McDuck at Dismal Downs, the Clan McDuck's old castle, along with her family in 1885.

In 1885 The Clan McDuck's hereditary lands were in danger of being seized due to her father being unable to pay taxes.

In 1885, he married Ellen Louise Axson, the daughter of a minister from Savannah, Georgia during a visit to her relatives in Rome, Georgia.

* August 15 – Edna Ferber, American novelist ( d. 1968 ) other sources give year of her birth as 1885

Juan Vivion died in 1885 leaving Catherine Coll and her child in poor circumstances.

His father, Richard Carte ( 1808 – 1891 ), was a flautist, and his mother was the former Eliza Jones ( 1814 – 1885 ); they had eloped, to the disappointment of her father, Thomas Jones, a clergyman.

After taking classes in theatre and singing, she began her career as an entertainer in 1885.

He returned to Paris in 1885, after his wife and her family asked him to leave because he had renounced the values they shared.

Karen von Blixen-Finecke (), ( 17 April 1885 – 7 September 1962 ), née Karen Christenze Dinesen, was a Danish author also known by her pen name Isak Dinesen.

This gave socialising a cosmopolitan flavour: ' Russia, Sweden, England, Austria, Germany, France, Australia and the United States were represented at our table, all as one large family, and striving towards the same goal ,' the painter Annie Goater penned in 1885 in an essay on her recent experiences at one French colony.

In 1885 the comtesse de la Rochejaquelein bequeathed Ussé to her great-nephew, the comte de Blacas.

She would occupy the house until her death in 1885, at which time the property was acquired by Capt.

In 1885, a 22-year-old woman named Sarah Ann Henley survived a fall from the bridge when her billowing skirts acted as a parachute ; she subsequently lived into her eighties.

Custer's wife, Elizabeth, who had accompanied him in many of his frontier expeditions, did much to advance this view with the publication of several books about her late husband: Boots and Saddles, Life with General Custer in Dakota ( 1885 ), Tenting on the Plains ( 1887 ), and Following the Guidon ( 1891 ).

* Arbelia Wood, purported but unverifiable supercentenarian, who was allegedly born April 6, 1893, Caledonia, Mississippi ( or 1885, as per some family sources, which claim she was a month shy of 120 at her death ); she died March 11, 2005, Clinton Township, Michigan.

Besides children's music ( which includes four fairytale operas as well as the aforementioned songs ), three other special categories of compositions stand out among his works: ( 1 ) pieces inspired by and dedicated to the Comtesse de Mercy-Argenteau ( whom the composer knew from 1885 to her death in 1890 ; ( 2 ) works associated with the Circle of Russian Music Lovers ( the " Kerzin Circle "); and ( 3 ) pieces inspired by the Russo-Japanese War and World War I.

Idylls of the King, published between 1856 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson ( 1809 – 1892 ; Poet Laureate from 1850 ) which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him, and the rise and fall of Arthur's kingdom.

Although she was very much active as a Queen in regards to her social projects and in politics, she was hardly ever seen at mere social occasions, such as balls and similar events: when she attended the Amaranter Ball in 1885, the occasion was so rare that it caused general amazement.

Upon her return home, in June 1885, she lived with her stepmother in Cedarville, and spent the winters with her in Baltimore.