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1879
 
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The young daughter of an amateur archaeologist discovers the first known example of prehistoric art, in a cave at Altamira in Spain      
1883
 
    
French artist Claude Monet moves to Giverny, where he creates and paints a famous lily pond       
Monet The Water-Lily Pond (detail) 1899
National Gallery, London

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1885
 
   
The American portrait-painter John Singer Sargent makes London his home and begins an immensely successful career      
1885
 
   
Leaving his family in Copenhagen, French artist Paul Gauguin returns to Paris to paint full-time      
Gauguin Harvest: Le Pouldu (detail) 1890
National Gallery, London

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c. 1885
 
    
French painter Georges Seurat develops the dotted style of impressionism that becomes known as Pointillism       
Seurat The Channel of Gravelines (detail) 1890
National Gallery, London

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1886
 
   
Dutch painter Vincent Willem van Gogh moves from Antwerp to Paris      
1888
 
    
Vincent van Gogh invites Paul Gauguin to come and paint with him at Arles, in the south of France       
Van Gogh Van Gogh's Chair (detail) 1888
National Gallery, London

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1889
 
    
Vincent van Gogh enters a psychiatric asylum in St Rémy as a voluntary patient       
Van Gogh A Wheatfield, with Cypresses (detail) 1889
National Gallery, London

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1891
 
   
French artist Paul Gauguin travels to Tahiti and stays in the Pacific islands for most of the rest of his life      
1895
 
    
Gwen John persuades a reluctant father to allow her to follow her younger brother to the Slade School of Art in London